Feb 28th 2025 - Friday Fun Day! Catch up day!

Take Attendance. Located in brown binder - bottom left drawer of teacher desk.

Students have their own person novels for - Silent Read 20 min.

Next - Time to complete any missing assignments to date - Grammar Workbooks, Lesson 30-39 - Most students are up to date. However a few students will be missing Lesson 37-39 they were away on Thursday.

Note: There are two packages Lesson 30-36 and Lesson 37-39 

Again - some students were missing on Thursday Feb 27th 2025 - as such they will need Lesson 37-39 workbooks. These are located in the blue basket under the smartboard screen at the front of the room.

NOTE: Re: Lesson 37-39 - Please let students know - they do not need to do the following sections.

Lesson 37 - Omit Section C

Lesson 39 - Omit Section D

Section Review - Omit I & J

If students require Lesson 30-36 there are a few booklets left in the bin as well. However, most students who were missing on Thurs will need Lesson 37-39. 

Re: Nixon - Please send Nixon to the library to complete his Grade 9 reading assessment package with Mr. Wilson. Librarian. 

Re: Jeremy - Please send Jeremy to Ms. Vincent's room to complete his reading assessment package with her. 

Remaining students: Please send a students- Ben and Taiki to collect English Board Games - e.g. Banana Grams, Scrabble & whatever else they would like Uno etc. :) 



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