Welcome back! Please remember to bundle up. Students have been inside at recess over the past few days due to the cold weather. Hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate soon and we will be able to enjoy our new playground.

We will be going skating Wednesday afternoon (weather permitting) from 12:20-1:20. Students require a helmet and skates. If you child does not own either please let me know and I can make arrangements.

French - Most writing pieces have been corrected and will sent home today to be viewed and signed. Please ensure that you child returns to school so they can be placed in their portfolios. The grades 6 and 7 students will explore and commence an informative draft writing piece, whilst the grade 8 students will be continue with a narrative writing piece either about a tale/legend or an adventure. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, verbs, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math - Decimal numbers (understanding place value less than 1000, multiplying, and dividing) will be our unit of study. We will be reviewing the place value component (up to 1 millionth i.e. 1/1 000 000) this week. Additional work and remaining homework will be sent home to be completed. Please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to complete at home. Refer for my "web link" for numerous math websites to practice at home.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me at the school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!

Welcome back and Happy New Year.  I hope you all had an enjoyable break and are looking forward to 2017 at GG and 6/7/8 Glazier!

You may have noticed that our outdoor rink is almost ready.  As soon as the ice surface is ready we will be going skating! Please stay tuned for notices.

French - This week Grade 6 students will complete their adventure story. Grade 7 students will also complete their mystery story and Photo story of their text (enrichment), whilst the grade 8 students will be commencing a narrative writing piece either about a tale/legend or an adventure. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math - Decimal numbers(understanding place value less than 1000, multiplying, and dividing) will be our unit of study. Additional work and remaining homework will be sent home to be completed. Please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to complete at home. Refer for my "web link" for numerous math websites to practice at home.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me at the school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!

* Distrist math assessment will take place tomorrow (Friday, Dec 16th). *** A reminder to students to practice their multiplication as we will be commening multiplying and dividing with decimals after Christmas***

* Next week our student council have organized a few Christmas theme days for all of our students in K-8. They are as follows:

- Candy grams (.25 cents/candy cane) being sold in cafeteria Monday and Tuesday. Will be handed out on Wednesday

- Wednesday- Pajama Day

- Thursday- Elf / Santa Hat Day

Welcome back at another great week at Gretna Green. Montly assembly for K-8 students will be held this Friday morning in the gymnasium. 

French - This week Grade 6 students continue to draft their copies of an adventure and/or personal writing piece. Grade 7 students continue to draft their introductions of a mystery story whilst grade 8 students will be creating and rehearsing for a Power Point presentation of their text next week. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math - This week students will continue with Cartesian plans whilst representing patterns with the use of tables along with. Next up, we will learn about equality and how to balance mathematical expressions. Please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to complete at home.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me at school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG.

Welcome back! Report cards go home today Monday (Nov 14^th). Please ensure that the response form is signed and return. Parent-teachers interviews are Thursday from 4-7 p.m. and Friday morning from 9-11 p.m.

French – This week Grade 6 students are writing their rough copies of an adventure and/or personal writing piece. Grade 7 students will be drafting their introductions of a mystery story and the grade 8 will be doing research in the computer lab to support the details of their explanatory writing piece. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math – This week students will learn how to use variables to describe patterns. Thursday will serve as a review day. Please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to complete at home.

If you have any questions, please contact me at school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!

Welcome back and Happy Halloween! Wednesday is “Bring your Child to Work Day” Welcome to all students and alumni who will be at GG for the day.

French – Students will be presenting their final copies of their respective writing pieces this week. Next, grade 6 students will either commence an adventure or personal text, whilst the 7s will either be writing an intriguing or mystery text, and the grade 8s will undertake an explanatory text. Writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math – Unit 2 test Tuesday (integers, factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers, and order of operations). Please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to complete at home. I can make arrangements to do so :) Graphing (Unit 1) will commence Wednesday with identifying and plotting points.

If you have any questions, please contact me at school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!

Welcome back! A reminder to everyone that Gretna Green's school website is updated daily. Please take time to see what everyone has been up to and be on the look out for important notices and upcoming events.

French - Grade 6 students continue to write their draft and/or have moved on to editing amongst themselves/partner copies of their autobiographies whilst other's work on a biography writing piece. The grade 7 and 8's are respectively undertaking the same process as they develop their specific writing pieces based on their grade level. Throughout the week, students will strengthen their reading, comprehension skills, grammar (verbs), and oral proficiency. Friday will serve as a review day of materials covered in class.

Math - Students will expand their knowledge of facteurs with the use of Venn diagrams, rainbow diagrams, and factor trees. Any unfinished work will be sent home to complete. On that note, please let me know if you wish to have any additional work for your child to compete at home. I can make arrangements to do so :) A reminder that Friday's classes serve as a review/catch-up on work day.

If you have any questions, please contact me at school. I will respond promptly via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!