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Hello,
Mr. Peterson
Here are a few agenda items for today:
Mr. Peterson / Mr. Stefiuk
I hope you are all having a nice Thanksgiving dinner. Just wanted to remind everyone to have the cookie dough & cheesecake orders completed before Halloween. I will see you again on Tuesday.
Mr. Peterson
Fundraising activities have started this week for Terrance Baker. We are collecting garage sale items for this coming Saturday’s sale. Mrs. Broderick’s class is also selling smoothies and popcorn this week to raise money for him. They are having their own garage sale during the week in their class at lunch time.
Hello class!
Friday is Fun Day and all day we will be outside doing games and activities. Remember that it is also the deadline for our Grade 7 Celebration dinner for Mama Pandas. The price for our class (due to chocolate sales) is less than the regular price of 50.00 for a child and two parents. We instead only have to pay 24.00 for a child and two parents. A child and one parent is only 9.00. June 25 is the date for the dinner and dance. The dinner starts at 6:00pm at Mama Pandas and the dance starts at 8pm back at Duncan Cran and goes until 10pm. Have a great weekend. Anyone wishing to share pictures from Sagitawa can bring them to me today and I am going to make a copy on a disc for everyone.
Mr. Peterson
Reminder that all forms should be brought back tomorrow for both Sagitawa and Track Meet. I will be in the school as the TIC as Mrs. Lang will be away. We will do the computer inspections and form completions tomorrow too. The cost for Sagitawa is 100.00 per person, though most of you covered that with chocolate sales. This is going to be an exciting week filled with a lot of great memories. The weather looks positive so keep up the positive thoughts.
Mr. Peterson
Latest forecast shows the weather looking sunny and in the 20’s! Keep the positive thoughts going!
Mr. P
Hello!
A very busy next couple of days for us. We have the track meet on Wednesday, June 11th and we leave for Camp Sagitawa that evening. I have been checking the weather forecast and it doesn’t look good. If it rains too much the track might get canceled. Stay tuned for the weather updates! Chances are though that if it rains Wednesday it will also rain Thursday so it may be canceled all together. I want everyone to think positive, nice weather thoughts so we can still do our Camp and have a good time. The weather in Chetwynd is not always the same as here so I hope we have some good luck. The permission forms for track and for Sagitawa need to be brought back by Monday. Also, all laptops computers, backpacks, and chargers need to be brought back by Monday, June 9. The backpacks need to be vacuumed out and thoroughly cleaned with no crumbs, garbage, old lunches etc. left behind. You would be surprised at what I have found in these backpacks after they are handed back! Make sure they are clean and ready to store for next year. They will be re-imaged so all documents etc. will be deleted. Anything you want to save should be copied onto a thumb drive and put on a home computer. You may also save to the SD60 vault any documents you may want to access next year etc. After Monday, the computers will be kept at the school and will not be going home. On another note, we had positive playgrounds today and our class did an awesome job of working with the primary children. I have done this several years now and this was the best yet. The class showed excellent leadership abilities and really helped the younger children to have a positive afternoon. Thanks for such a great job on this activity. Mrs. Lang also appreciated the effort and rewarded us all with Dilly Bars from Dairy Queen. So, once again a reminder to get the permission forms back and to think positive weather thoughts for next week! Mr. Peterson
Hello class. I hope everyone reads this while I am away. I am at the Board Office doing marking for the wireless cold writes for grade six students in the District. I want everyone to be mindful that the deadline for chocolate money is this Friday. I will be awarding the prizes at that time too. Remember that if you are interested in me drawing for a new hair style, everyone needs to have it brought back. I think I am safe so far. Please do your best to work hard for Mrs. Broderick so that I hear good things when I get back. Please make sure everyone does their jobs and classroom monitoring etc. Also, we can’t forget to feed and water the crabs and to feed the fish! We will have a Spelling test and a Math test on Friday. See you all on Friday.Mr. Peterson
On Monday at 1:00 pm we are having the school speech competition. I was very proud of everyone who gave a speech and did their very best. We have the following representing our class: Dale McEachern, Natasha Chretien, Gina Kristoff, and Chantelle Menard. Also, I have agreed to letting each student in class put in a vote for my next hair style after they have brought in all of their money for all of their chocolate. If everyone brings back money before May 23, I will draw from the bin and then do my next hair style accordingly. I have heard rumours of pink and green dyes etc. It could be interesting.Hope everyone has a nice weekend! Mr. Peterson
Hello all. Speeches are Thursday and Friday! Remember the criteria and to practice, practice, practice! Also, a reminder of the spelling test on Friday. You can take home the slips of paper and practice spelling them and sorting them into categories. Interim reports go home May 2 so look for those too. Keep up the great work on chocolate sales! I want to remind everyone to have them sold before May 23. After that date you will need to bring back all unsold and unopened chocolates. Hope you have a great end of the week. I will be here on Friday, but away on Monday and Tuesday because I am going to meetings in Vancouver. Mr. Peterson
Hello everyone. Just a reminder to get the Dr. Kearney yellow sheets handed back ASAP. Also, a reminder that we are having a Math test on adding and subtracting integers on Thursday and Lesson 29 Spelling test on Friday. All those in Word Weavers need to bring back forms ASAP as well. Chocolate sales are going well. If everyone keeps up the hard work we will have enough for our camping trip and our grad events. The video dance option will cost at least 1200.00 and I am still checking to see if they can come on that date. If I do book it we will have to sell the rest of our chocolate bars to pay for that. We still have 24 boxes of Purdy’s left to sell (20 per box). I think we can do it, but if we need to try new neighborhoods we might have to carpool and I would be willing to help out with that next week sometime if there is interest. I was talking to Mr. Haddrell and he said that there is still room for more Grade 7 girls to join the Badminton team. I would encourage any of you girls in the class who are interested to contact him because you should do that tomorrow or Friday. I want to thank you all for being a great class and for working so hard this year. We are only 2 and a half months from being done and then you all get to prepare for Dr. Kearney. The orientation is happening in May. Also, I will be getting permission slips ready tomorrow for our China party next Friday. We will meet at the school at 5:00 pm on April 25 and have a Chinese food supper, then those wishing to play Rockband can do that while others play Wii games and I will also show a movie in the classroom that has a China theme/setting (It will be G or PG and will be on the permission slip). The party will be done by 8:00 pm. We will also have birthday cake for our April birthdays in the class. See you all tomorrow.Mr. Peterson
Today we started a new unit in Math: Adding and Subtracting Integers. The Math assignment is pages 245-247. SPCA donations are being collected this week again. Also, a constant reminder to everyone to bring back chocolate money. In Science today we started worksheets which will be due at the end of class on Wednesday. Spelling will be due on Thursday this week because of the NID on Friday. The assignment this week is SV 28 and the words should be written in the agendas. We are studying Ancient China for Social Studies. I am looking into having a field trip to a Chinese restaurant sometime this month as we finish the studies. It will be a nice way to learn about some of the food from China and a good excuse to get out and have a fun trip too! Look for permission slips for that field trip in the near future. Book orders for the April Scholastic Arrow order form are due back April 14th. Also, a newsletter went home today with some important dates: April 9th will be the assembly and awards for term 2 academics. Parents are invited to attend. April 11 is a non-instructional day NID so no school for students that day. The NID in May is on the 9th and it will focus on the plans for the 2008-2009 school year. Have a great Monday! Mr. Peterson
Hello! It is April already and our first week of school after the break has been completed. Just under three months to go and the year is over. Time has sure gone quickly. We are getting into new units of study in Socials with Ancient China and in Science with the Chemistry units. Congratulations to the Science Fair participants who recently went to Dawson Creek and received medals (Dale, Shelby, Michaela, and Natasha). We still have a lot of chocolate bars left so any of you who have sold out can come get more. I don’t want to have to send it back if we can avoid it. Thank you to everyone who has already brought back their money from sales. Also, please remember that the school is collecting donations for the SPCA and if you are interested you can bring things in to school (ie canned dog and cat food). Hope you all have a great weekend. See you Monday. Mr. Peterson
With report cards going home and the talent show on Friday it was a very full day. I will be starting the Making Sense of Adolescence course for parents in April. I had a few fliers left over so I included them in the envelopes of most of the report cards that went home. If any of you parents are interested in registering for that course, please let me know. On another note…we had our class party last night and there were lots of fun things activities set up for everyone. We had Twister on the stage (which was still set up from the talent show), Wii games on the wall of the gym with the projector, karaoke on the big screen, and Joredean’s Rock Band with drums and guitar. In the classroom we had a movie projected on the big screen with the proxima and some of the class watched the movie “Open Season.” We had hotdogs, chips, lots of pop, and root beer floats. It was a nice way to celebrate the hard work we did during term 2. I want to thank Mrs. Miedema for coming to help supervise and to help with the hot dogs etc. Also, thank you to Mr. McEachern for coming along too. We had fun sharing some of our treats with Mr. Bird too as he was working late as usual. Have a great spring break everyone and keep selling chocolates so we can get rid of it all like we did the lollipops. We made $190.00 on the lollipops sales last week! See you all in a couple of weeks. May the force be with you! Mr. Peterson
I just found out that the almonds we got actually have 30 boxes per case and not 25 as I had ordered. The invoice was more than I had expected and when I investigated further I found out that it was because they sent the wrong ones. This means that those of you who have taken almonds to sell need to bring back 90.00 not 75.00 as I had previously thought. I might send back part of the order because it was their mistake, not mine. I’ll keep you all informed, but please sell what you have already and I’ll ponder on what to do with the others. Thanks, Mr. Peterson
Three days left until Spring Break! Reminder to all class members to bring permission slips for the party on Friday. Thanks to Mrs. Miedema for volunteering to help supervise Friday night. Please bring back money for sold cases of almonds and boxes of chocolate bars before Friday and I will give you more for Spring Break. I would like to see everyone try to sell 5 boxes of chocolate each as a minimum goal. Students who wish to sell more than this are welcome to do so because the extra money will be put towards other fun activities. Also, a reminder, I have revised the prizes for the top sellers combining Purdy’s and WF to make it fair so that those who bring in the highest totals will be rewarded with: 2 gig MP3 music and video players for the top two overall sellers valued at $100.00 each. Third place gets a 1 gig MP3 player valued at $40.00. Fourth gets a box of 20 Purdy’s chocolate bars. Top 3 winners who would rather have a box of 20 chocolate bars instead of their MP3 player can do that if they desire because they may already have an MP3 or I-pod and want the chocolate instead. Reminder that the talent show is on Friday afternoon. Friday is a full day even though Wednesday and Thursday are early dismissal. Any parents wishing to discuss report cards can come see me on either of the early dismissal days or you can come to the party Friday night and chat more informally while we supervise the games and activities. I hope everyone is getting excited for Spring Break. I think we can all use a nice break so we can get ready to come back and work hard the last term. Please take a moment and complete the very, very short online survey about your opinions of Spring Break in our district. I did the survey and it took about 1 minute so it is definitely not a burden to complete, but the results of the survey will be used to determine when we have Spring Break in future years and whether or not it will be the same type of thing as this year or not. The password codes are on the yellow sheets sent home with each student today. Kodiak Days way fun today. I went skating and had fun down at the Taylor Ice Center. I will be feeling it tomorrow! Take care! Mr. Peterson
Hello everyone! Well, when it rains it pours! Today we got our gourmet lollipops, more Purdy’s and our chocolate almonds. Thanks to Dale, Zachery and Tyler for helping to unload it after school today. I don’t think we will have to do much other fundraising if we get all of this stock sold! We will sell the lollipops at school so there won’t be any door to door sales with those. I checked the label on the chocolate almond box and they say that they are peanut free. I recommend that students always use the buddy system and that they get permission before going out to sell. Many thanks to all of the parents who have taken chocolate to their work etc. etc!). I will be sending home a permission slip for our class party we are having March 14th. The plan is to meet at the school at 7:00PM and stay until 9:30PM. If any parents are interested in coming to participate and help supervise, please let me know. It would be nice to have a few helpers. Mr. Peterson
Hello! The Spelling test this week is on Thursday. The words are: 1. capture 2. measure 3. archer 4. creature 5. treasure 6. butcher 7. injure 8. fracture 9. pleasure 10. preacher 11. failure 12. mixture 13. closure 14. stretcher 15. manicure 16. pasture 17. leisure 18. procedure 19. future 20. rancher Chocolate bar sales are going well. Thanks to everyone who has been helping with that. I think we will be able to get the money we need without any problems. Mr. P
Hello! Our Purdy’s chocolates have arrived. Those students who took some home to sell have a note written in their agendas. Each box has 20 bars and they sell for 2.00 each. Therefore, for each box taken home, 40.00 needs to be brought back to Mr. Peterson. Good luck with sales and remember if you are going door to door, get parental permission first, and try to use the buddy system so you are not going out alone. Have a great weekend! Good luck to the boys and girls playing on the weekend in the basketball tournaments. Mr. Peterson
Hello! Reminders for tomorrow: Spelling Lesson 23 marking and Test, Math quiz on vocabulary words, and for Fine Arts we are working on our Egypt projects. We had a newsletter go home today. Please sign the second page and bring it back tomorrow or Monday. I also have some good news regarding our camp at Sagitawa. Initially when I got the price quote I thought it was a price per day, but instead it was a price per the camp out. It will in fact only cost about half as much as I had thought. That means we should only have to raise about $2500.00 instead of $5000.00. We should be getting the Purdys chocolate bars by Monday and we can start selling. Reminder to boys basketball players to meet at 3pm at NPSS on Friday. Girls play Saturday at NPSS and need to be there by 8:30am.
Congrats to those getting postcards today for their travelogs. We got three postcards from New Zealand to Mellissa and Michaela. Also, just a reminder to basketball players for boys to be at NPSS on Friday at 3:00 pm and girls to be there on Saturday at 8:30 am. Book orders are due March 7th. Plans are under way for fundraising and I will get the chocolate bars by the end of this week and we can start selling probably as early as next Monday. Have a great day!
Hello,A few agenda items: Spelling Lesson 23 exercises and Test – Friday, Feb. 29. Subway orders are due Thursday, Feb. 28. Math test 2 for percent is tomorrow – Feb. 26. As a class we decided to try to make Camp Sagitawa work. Camp Cameron is already booked up completely for May and June. I have ordered some chocolate bars to sell to see how that goes. I am looking at other fundraisers too. On a hot Saturday in May we could do a car wash. It’s going to cost over $5000.00 to do a two night camp at Sagitawa, but it will definitely be worth the effort. I have calculated that if we rely only on chocolate sales that it would take each student selling about 6-7 cases of 25 to make the money we need. That might be asking a bit much so I hope to integrate other fundraisers to the mix. On another note, the talent show has been moved to March 14th and grade 7 auditions are tomorrow. Congratulations to our science fair participants and to our medal winners: Dale McEachern, Natasha Chretien, Michaela Tobler, and Shelby Bowden!
Hello! Many of you have been getting ready for the talent show so I wanted to remind you that it has been postponed for one week. Also, I hope to have all of the Math tests marked and ready to hand back on Monday. I will then go over the test with the class and then if anyone wants to do a retake you can do that on Tuesday. The last schedule I saw had our class going to the gym to discuss our Science Projects with the judges right after recess. I will confirm that on Monday. Mr. Haddrell is going to put all of our projects in the gym for us on Sunday. I am still entertaining the idea of Camp Sagitawa for two days in June. We will have to do a lot of fundraising so I am checking on the concept of selling chocolate bars and other fundraising ideas. I like Sagitawa because they have washrooms in the cabins with running water, they have a cook who does all of the meals for you and they don’t ask us to do any of the kitchen clean up etc. That gives us more time to enjoy the camping experience. I also like their other facilities and options such as archery, canoeing, hiking, orienteering, play field for ball games, and they have a zip line. I want us to have a great time so it will cost us more than it would at another facility. We can discuss this on Monday and guage commitment levels for fundraising and making it a special way to end the year. See you Monday! P.S. several of you have requested seating arrangement changes. I will answer those questions in person on Monday too. Mr. P.
Hello everyone. Just a reminder that the final projects need to be ready for tomorrow’s Science Fair for the class. I want to also encourage all of our talented students to get something together for the Talent Show coming up Feb. 29. On another note, I want to start making plans for a class camping trip sometime in June. I have checked costs for Camp Sagitawa, but it is very expensive (80+ dollars per day per student) plus bus costs. I will look into other options that will be more affordable. I will keep you all informed. Perhaps Camp Cameron if there are any openings. Any parents wishing to attend an 8 week (2 hrs per week) workshop called Making Sense of Adolescence which I am facilitating, please email me and I will send you an informational brochure. My email is kpeterson@prn.bc.ca Also, the last Friday before Spring Break (March 14th) I want to have a class party at the school. The plan is to meet there after supper and have games in the classroom and a movie in the gym projected onto the wall. We want to play Wii games on the projected screen too. This is a reward for the class getting lots of points! Stay posted for more details as they unfold. I want to emphasize how much I appreciate all of the parents who regularly check agendas and help your child to keep up with assignments. We have an awesome Grade 7 class this year and I hope the rest of the year goes as well as the first half has gone. The Valentines Dance last week was almost exclusively planned for and decorated for by the Grade 7’s. We were able to raise $204.00 towards our Grade 7 Grad. Talk to you all later. Mr. Peterson
Hello,This is the first entry in my new blog! This week we have a lot of exciting things happening in the class and in the school.On Tuesday I am coaching the girls 4/5 basketball team in a home game vs Finch. Wednesday I am coaching a home game for the boys 6/7 team vs Baldonnel 2 and on Thursday there is no basketball for the boys A team. Also, on Wednesday, Feb. 20 we are having a Math Test on percent. Please review the test samples given in the math worksheet booklets. Friday is a Spelling Test for Lesson 22 WTW and words are listed here:1. aloud 2. allowed 3. patience 4. patients 5. morning 6. mourning 7. profit 8. prophet 9. vary 10. very11. lesson 12. lessen 13. censor 14. sensor 15. presence 16. presents 17. incite 18. insight 19. baron 20. barren On Friday, Feb. 22 we are also having class pictures taken. Remember to bring envelope with $6.00 by Friday if you wish to order a copy of that picture. Finally, our class Science Fair project is due this Friday. Please have all final touches completed in the next couple of days so that it is ready to present on the 22nd. On Monday, Feb. 25th, we will be involved in the school science fair and students from our class will put their projects in that event too. Thanks to all of you who have been getting the agendas signed and who have been following up with the requirements for science fair projects. Mr. Peterson
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