Thank you for your nice comments about missing me yesterday.

The final math test on Area/Perimeter of circles is on Friday. It's really important for you to be at school on Friday because we will be making the final arrangements for Claymation. The people from Claymation will be in on Monday and it will be a full day of filming.
Two people will be presenting their Booktalks on Friday also. The rest of you will be presenting on Tuesday or Thursday. I won't be at school on Wednesday as I will be at a workshop at U of T.
Remember to bring in your $5 gift for the gift exchange. Next Friday will be a fun day! You can bring in treats if you like.
See you tomorrow

I missed you all today

I'm not going to be at school tomorrow. I'm working at U of T on an exciting unit involving new technology. I hope to be able to share this unit with you in the spring. I'm really hoping that you'll be on your best behaviour for the supply teacher. There are math review sheets being handed out and the test will likely be on Friday. Make sure to bring in food for the food drive. The booktalk presentations will start on Thursday. You have to be at school on Thursday morning by 8:45am at the latest. I'll meet you at the front doors. We'll be leaving for our tour of Marc Garneau by 8:55am. We won't be able to wait for latecomers...sorry. Please relay this message to your classmates incase they don't read my blog. Look forward to seeing all of you on Thursday.

Homework:

Complete Booktalk for Tuesday.
Complete 2 math worksheets. If you are having difficulty with the math, try to do the chapter review test on page 173. The answers are in the back of the book. You can bring any questions you don't understand to school on Tuesday and I will go over them.
Most students will be absent on Monday for EID. We will not be learning anything new but for the students who will attend, it will be a review day.
The final math test on Area and Perimeter will be on Wednesday or Thursday. This depends on the number of students still absent on Tuesday for EID.
Claymation is coming up on December 15th. We will be working on the storyline and clay figures on Wednesday.
Have a wonderful long weekend. Happy EID.
And to those of you who will be writing the TOPS exam...good luck and remember...it's not a race. GO OVER YOUR WORK AND OVER YOUR WORK AND OVER YOUR WORK, then hand it in.

Homework

Math test tomorrow on Area and Perimeter

Math worksheet

Bring form for parent-teacher interview

Bring permission form for Marc Garneau visit

Book talk due in Wednesday

Homework

Math Page 166 - #4 - #16

Geography tests will be handed back on Monday.

Work on booktalks...must be finished reading your book by Monday and work for the booktalk will be completed by Wednesday. We will be going to the library to complete the power point presentations on Thursday.

You can use this blog to work with classmates on Claymation story.

Homework

Math Text Page 158-159 #4 - #12
3 Math worksheets
Finish Reading your book
Work on booktalk

Sakina - you missed the Math lessons on Thursday and Friday so perhaps you and I could work together on the new math while the other students write the test. You can write the test Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm sorry to hear about the death in your family. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Ms. Galli

Homework

Math Text pages 74-75 #7-#15

Read your assigned book in preparation for your booktalk. The sample booktalks are in the Galli pick-up folder.

Homework

Math worksheet
Work on Power-point presentation for Media Arts
Bring money for poppy (optional)

Homework:
Summary Paragraph of the notes we took in class today from Chapter 4 Geography (due Monday)
Study for Geography test (Monday) chapters 3 & 4
Math - Page 50 #4 - #11 and Math worksheet

Homework

Work on the "Test Yourself" worksheet in preparation for the Math test tomorrow. If you have any problems with it, we will look at it before the test.
Bring in signed forms from your white envelope.
Continue to do research for your media arts project. I have booked the library computers in period 3 tomorrow in order for you and your group members to choose a car.

Homework:
Complete questions #4 to #8 from textbook
Complete worksheet
You were given 6 periods in the library to research your type of fuel. Any further research will have to be done at home or before/after school in the library.

Sunday....time to get your work done!

I hope you had a safe and Happy Halloween. The weather was fantastic for kiddies to be trick-or-treating.
Homework
- Finish taking notes on the pages we finished reading from Chapter 4 of the Geography text.
- I will be collecting your language notebooks again on Monday to see the progression of your cursive writing
- We will take up the math worksheet tomorrow
- I also booked the computer lab in the library for two periods tomorrow. These are the last of the 6 periods I have assigned for research on the Webquest.

Happy Halloween...almost

Homework: complete math worksheet
Take notes on the pages I read to you in Geography
Get math quiz signed

I'm in the library right now. It's very dark and teachers are telling very scary stories. There are lots of students from 8 Galli. I promise to tell you another scary story tomorrow. Remember to wear black and orange for house colours.

Congratulations to the students who worked with me on the smartboard for math this morning. I was so happy to see how successful you were.

If you were absent on Thursday morning, you can continue to work on paragraph writing on the classroom computer. Just remind me on Monday morning.

Hope you had a fun Friday

Homework for the weekend is:

Finish reading The Breadwinner


We will be discussing the book (what did you like or dislike about the book, what were the major themes of the book, what were the characters like)

Math - 4.1 and 4.1 worksheets on patterning. We're going to be using toothpicks on Monday...can you guess why?

Make notes on chapter three of your Geography text.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. If you have any questions, simply post the question in a comment with an email address and I'll get back to you.

Parents and Students:

If I don't receive an assignment on time, I inform parents with an action plan. An action plan is a letter sent home to be signed by parents acknowledging that either homework or an assignment was not completed. If an assignment is still not handed in, I send another letter home to let parents know. However, I will always take in late assignments and mark them. My goal is to get parents on board to remind students of what is expected of them. Students: the moral here is NEVER GIVE UP...you may be late in doing the work but the work must get done.
For Terry Fox day: please dress for cold weather tomorrow!

And another thing...

Parents, do not be concerned about the list I put out on the weekend regarding who had not completed Geography or postcard assignments. I did receive some assignments on Friday that I failed to put in my bag to mark.

You only need to be concerned if you received a letter today regarding unfinished work.

Homework

Finish the math on Page 123 #1-6

Read chapters 6 and 7 from The Breadwinner

Students who received a letter to be signed by a parent, must have them back by tomorrow.

DID YOU FIGURE OUT THE PATTERN FROM THE PAPERS ON THE BOARD OR DO YOU KNOW WHY I HAVE SPECIAL POWERS? (I'll tell you tomorrow)

We're starting new Math tomorrow!

Weekend is almost over

Homework for this weekend was just to read chapters 5 and 6 from the Breadwinner and to complete the questions I put on the board from chapters 3 and 4.

The following students have not submitted the Webquest assignment for Geography:
Yemaan
Maria
Muhammad
Ali
Hugo
Sohum
Jahfet
Amir

I am also missing postcards from The Outsiders from:
Salmah
Sakina
Muhammad
Nashmiya
Rajevan
Amir
Maria
(I do have three postcards without names on them)

See you tomorrow

Homework

Muhammad needs to bring in his action plan.

The following students nees to submit geography assignments: Haris, Yemaan, Hugo, Amir, Maria and Salmah.

Get Reading Comprehension test signed.

Read chapters 3-4 from The Breadwinner.

Bring Terry Fox money

Haris owes $10 for clamation

Bring Terry Fox permission form

Math Sheet - Calcualate the mean mode and median for the following numbers

77% 74% 79% 86% 90% 76%

16, 23, 18, 14, 24, 18, 20, 22, 16

100, 205,197,210, 212,188, 160, 205

Thank you Lloyd and Amir for your comments on this blog. I'm happy that it helps you.

Congratulations to Sohum for being the only female student at Valley Park to advance in cross country running.
Good Luck tomorrow!

Homework

Finish the geography assignment - must include a graph of your choice using any data from the website.

Read chapters 1 and 2 from The Breadwinner

Tuesday, October 14 2008

Homework is:

Study for Data Management test (Wednesday)

Finish Geography sheet and graph

Complete Geography internet assignment - Due Thursday October 17th
Spelling in Cursive writing due on Wednesday October16th
Math test on Wednesday October 16th

Web 2.0

We had curriculum night last Tuesday and I was asked to speak to the parent body about the History and Geography curriculum. I talked about the new technology that we have at our school and how we incorporate it into our History/Geography program. It really sounded like I was talking another language and I could tell many of the other teachers were wondering what I was talking about. Blogging? Podcasting?
Last year one of the Grade 8 teachers had his students Podcasting. They took a chapter in the text and summarized it. They had to Podcast the information as one of the historical characters of the time. This was the teachers first attempt at Podcasting so he kept it simple. He was able to use the assignment as an assessment tool for History, Drama and Oral Language.
I plan to share my Blog with my students on Tuesday. This way I will be completely familiar with it by then. Homework and assignments will be posted daily. How wonderful will that be for students who are absent! No more excuses.

This is my first attempt at bloggin but I sure am glad that I started