Mr. Glazier

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Posted: December 5, 2016

Dec 5-9th

Welcome back at another great week at Gretna Green. A reminder that old man winter has made his appearance and is here to stay. With that being said, please ensure you child dresses warmly.

All work on the new playground has finished for now.  The swings remain to be installed and will be placed in the spring. It really is a fantastic set up.

District Math benchmark (Grades 5-8) assessments will take place this week. The writing period runs from Monday, December 5-16th.

French - This week Grade 6 students continue to write an adventure and/or personal writing piece. Grade 7 students continue to write a mystery story whilst grade 8 students will be finishing up their Power Point presentations and commence an enrichment project for the remainder of the month. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math - District math benchmark assessments will take place this week.  Next week we will finish Unit 1  "Les régularités et les égalitiés" and review for our unit test. Decimal numbers will be our next unit of study. 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 the school. I will respond promptl via telephone. Let's have a great week at GG!

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: November 30, 2016

Name our Mascot

Name our Mascot

Help us choose Gretna Green's mascot name.

GG Mannequin Challenge

Posted: November 30, 2016

Posted: November 29, 2016

Nov 28th - Dec 2nd

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.

 

Posted: November 23, 2016

Jeux Plan Cartésien

Cartesian Plan game

Another game to reinforce math skills.

Posted: November 23, 2016

Jeux Plan Cartésien

Cartesian Plan Math Game

Plot the points in their respective quadrants to emphasize x and y coordinates.

Posted: November 21, 2016

Nov 21-25th

Welcome back! We have another busy week ahead of us in 6, 7, 8 Glazier.

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 completing their explanatory writing piece including a bibliography. Their next step will be to create a Power Point of their text. 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 graph and place x, y coordinates on a Cartesian plan. Students will also be creating ShowMe videos explaining recent material that has been covered. Stay tuned :)  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

Posted: November 14, 2016

Nov 14-17th

Welcome back! Report cards go home today Monday (Nov 14th). 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!

Posted: November 9, 2016

Nov 7th-10th

Welcome back! Please note that our school Remembrance Day service will be held Thursday morning in the gymnasium…”Lest We Forget” Report cards go home on Monday (Nov 14th). Parent-teachers interviews next Thursday evening and Friday morning.

French - Grade 6 students were introduced to the elements of an adventure and/or personal writing piece. Likewise grade 7 students have commenced a mystery story and the grade 8 have outlined and begun an explanatory writing piece. As always, writing traits continue to be taught throughout as well as grammar, conventions, homophones, guided reading, etc.

Math - We have begun our new unit on patterns and equations. Students have been exploring patterns within columns in a table of values via input/output machines. Relationships amongst lager tables consisting of more than one column have also been explored. Input and output values have been described using various pattern rules. 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!

Posted: October 31, 2016

Oct 31st - Nov 4th

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!

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