Jeudi, toujours gris.

Wow, another whirlwind day at Winona!

Today, students handed-in their "Histoire, Chapitre 8" assignments. It seems that more than a few will be handed-in late...

Monsieur Wanie assigned "Histoire, Chapitre 9". The chapter talks about one of Canada's most important periods of growth, from 1867 through 1920. There was a class discussion on some of the questions and students got right down to business.

Tomorrow is sure to be a fun day. The Junior Achievement people will be in to present to students and lead them through activities all day! Several different teachers will be in to supervise in the morning and Ms Anastasiadis will be in during the afternoon... Hopefully, students will be at their most well behaved!

Mercredi, le soleil et ensuite le gris et le vent.

Was today a busy day or what!?

Students finished off their "post-war" peer evaluation assignment and were tasked with a new build-up in order to incorporate them into the classroom railroad. The new build-up is due on Monday, April 2nd.

Classes had their grad photos taken and had a bit of time to work on both "Histoire" and read their French reading books.

Mardi, il fait beau et froid!

Today, Monsieur Wanie gave a short lecture on "Histoire, Chapitre 8" about homesteaders in the West during the period between 1896 and 1914. Students began working on the questions that are due on Thursday! To get a great mark, students should include information from Monsieur Wanie's lecture, the chapter and student's own reflections in the unit assignment.

In the afternoon, students worked on a peer evaluation of the "Post-war house" assignments...

Lundi, le soleil, le froid et le vent! Joyeuse semaine, Monsieur Rowinsky!

This morning, students brought all their "Post-war house" assignments to class to hand them in. There are quite a few excellent projects! Many students incorporated different materials and concepts to include trees and gardens into their work. Good job kids! Tomorrow, there will be a peer evaluation period where we'll select the best ones for the railroad!

As well in the morning, students worked on their French reading books and reports.

And students had their progress check for their "Projet de pays en development" assignment.

Later in the day, Monsieur Wanie assigned the "Histoire, Chapitre 8" questions. Monsieur Wanie conducted a short discussion to preface tomorrow's unit discussion. Check the questions out below:

"Histoire, Chapitre 8"
Verifie tes connaissances- #1, 3, 4(cover page)
Applique tes connaissances- #4
-A rendre jeudi, le 29 mars.

Next progress check for the "Projet de pays en development": Lundi, le 2 avril!

Finalement, c'est vendredi.

Today was a busy day for classes 86 and 87. Students did some organization, self and peer evaluation of their "Histoire" assignments. Monsieur Wanie has graded a ton of assignments lately. It really is good to see how much thought and effort students are putting into their assignments!

Students also had an opportunity to work on their "pre-war house" assignments! They are due on Monday!

Hopefully everyone has a great weekend!

Larry wanted a picture of Monsieur Wanie's house. Here it is!

Jeudi, encore le beau temps!

So, today, 87 had a double period to work on their "Histoire, Chapitre 7". Monsieur Wanie has observed that most students are doing a great job of researching the chapter in order to answer the questions!

Later in the day, classes worked on their "post-war house" assignment. There are lots of great looking projects on the way!

Here's a good link on the Dominion Lands Act for "Histoire, Chapitre 7".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Lands_Act

Mercredi, une belle journee!

So, today classes 86 and 87 agreed on the hand-in date for the "Post-war" house projects to be Monday, March 26th.

As well, students worked on the "Histoire, chapitre 7"...

Students, we had been talking about and studying working conditions in developing nations. Here's a bit of awful news from a garment factory fire in Bangledesh: http://news.yahoo.com/workers-die-factories-used-tommy-hilfiger-003219691--abc-news.html