Jeudi, gris.

This morning, it was 87's turn to start the perspective drawing unit. Students had a double period to practice drawing rectangles, cylinders, and cubes in perspective and making the shapes into buildings and such...

83 came to class and got a heads-up on the exercises for tomorrow as well as writing some "detecteur de mensonge" sentences.

Later in the day, both 86 and 87 noted the keywords and questions for "Geographie, chapitre 3" and began working on the chapter in small groups.

Tomorrow, Monsieur Wanie will be absent. A day plane was discussed with all classes and written on the white-board for students information. Hopefully all students will work hard and act appropriately for the supply.

Mercredi, le beau temps de retour!

Today, 86 started their art unit. It's a pencil drawing unit focusing on the design element of "forced perspective". Students worked to produce rectangles, squares, pie shapes and cylinders.

In the afternoon, 83 worked with Monsieur Wanie to produce a paragraph for a short oral presentation. The class also worked on a short "true/false/possible" exercise.

86 and 87 both had their class discussions on the novel "Sonson et le volcan". It was also 87s turn to hand in their "Geographie" collages.

Tomorrow, 87 starts the art unit!

Mardi, pluie

A quick reminder: Students who need to hand in a late assignment, meet with Monsieur Wanie for whatever reason, or want to come in to hang out or mess with the classroom train, must come in BY OR BEFORE 8:30. Students should not be wandering the halls between 8:30 and the bell.

In class today, 86 and 87 continued the reading of their first French novel, "Sonson et le volcan". Both classes had a double period to read and answer the comprehension questions in preparation for the class discussion tomorrow.

Oh, and tomorrow, 86 starts an art/drawing unit. 87 starts Thursday.

And tomorrow, the "Geographie" collage is due for 87! Thursday for 86!

And 87 has pool tomorrow, bring your swim stuff!

Lundi gris...

Before school this morning, a few students came in early to ask for extensions for the "Revolution Industrielle" assignment that's due today. Students remember: it's BEFORE 8:30 that you need to come in for such things...Anyway, during the school day, Monsieur Wanie went over the "Geographie, Chapitre 2" questions again with both classes to clarify what is necessary to fully answer the questions. Then, both classes had an opportunity to start reading the first French novel of the year, "Sonson et le volcan". Students will be reading several novels this year, as well as a few comic books, presenting related projects and doing reading comprehension quizzes. Of course, as much as the class has time to read independently, Monsieur Wanie will also go over the novels with the class before assignments and quizzes are due.

83 worked on their "Etienne paragraph" and prepared for the "Test de vocabulaire" that's coming up soon.

Vendredi, la pluie ou le beau temps?

Well, this morning was fun, students did their Terry Fox run!

Not wanting to miss the opportunity to teach a lesson (LOL), students in 86 and 87 followed Monsieur Wanie and Mr. Rowinsky through Wychwood Park past the visible parts of Taddle Creek, along the old shoreline of Lake Iroquois to the Roycroft Wetland at the base of Winston Churchill park/reservoir. Rosanna, Michelle, Spiro and Ethan won the commemorative 30th Anniversary Terry Fox shoelaces for today's best runners of classes 86 and 87. And Rocky was kind enough to provide every student with freezies just before lunch! Thanks Rocky!

In the afternoon, students participated in a dance! Good times at Winona, good times!

Jeudi, le soleil resort. Une belle journee!

Today, students in 87 had two periods in homeroom, one to work on the "Revolution Industrielle" assignment, the other during which Monsieur Wanie went over the "Chapitre 2 Geographie" questions and students worked on them.

86 only had one period of homeroom today and it was taken up by Mr Rowinsky's math test.

Just to clear up some due-date confusion in 86 and 87: the "Revolution Industrielle" assignment good copy is due on Monday, September 27th for both 86 and 87. The question #4 collage from "Geo, Chapitre 2" is due on Wednesday, September 29th for 87 and Thursday, September 30th for 86.

Today, 83 missed working on the "Etienne" paragraph in their notebooks because of the Terry Fox assembly at the end of the day. On Monday, students will start gathering ideas for a similar "Etienne" paragraph for themselves. Monsieur Wanie will read the paragraph with the class to make sure everyone understands...

If you were anywhere near Queen's Park last Sunday, you'd have seen two of Monsieur Wanie's favourite cyclists: Michael Barry and Ryder Hesjedal.

Mercredi, la pluie et la tempete!

Wow, today was a busy day for students!

Classes 86 and 87 had discussions with Monsieur Wanie on the "Gepgraphie, Chapitre 2" key words. Students took down class-notes for the definitions. 86 had their chance to "shoot the breeze" at the end of the day...

83 worked on their "Qui est ton prof?" sentences with Monsieur Wanie.