Mme. Hiller's Class

*Last week before the holidays!! Mon. Dec. 16 10 Days of Kindness continues Invite someone new to play with you Make sure that the Health "Inventaire d'activité" is handed in (it was due Friday) PAA Perspective & Balance projects due Share on Google Drive Lunch Monitors meet in the gym at lunch Mme away sick :( Tues. Dec. 17 10 Days of Kindness continues Do something helpful for a friend or family member Writer's Workshop - make sure to have "hooks" assignment completed Science - osmosis lab write-up should be handed-in (it was due last Thursday!) Last choir practice before the performance in the gym at lunch AM and PM recess class open to complete any overdue work Wed. Dec. 18 10 Days of Kindness continues Thank someone who does things for you that you might not always notice Grammar - verb test today; ER, IR and RE verbs in présent Thurs. Dec. 19 10 Days of Kindness continues Help someone do a chore or a

*Please continue bringing donations for our "Reverse Advent Calendar"; your support is much appreciated!! Mon. Dec. 9 10 Days of Kindness begins - give out high fives today! Please bring Hot Lunch forms & $$ You can still hand in forms until Tuesday, there are extras in the class! Band Concert @ 2:30pm & 6:30pm Combined band period 2 Set-up after lunch Tuning and rehearsal @ 1:35pm Last day to work on and share Perspective and Balance photos Tues. Dec. 10 10 Days of Kindness continues - smile at as many people as you can! Math evaluation today Last day to bring Hot Lunch forms Extra choir practice at lunch Wed. Dec. 11 10 Days of Kindness continues - pick up litter that you didn't drop! French performance @ 10am - all welcome Types of government definitions and representations due Experiences Canada Exchange - fundraising meeting @ 6:30pm Thurs. Dec. 12 10 Days of Kindness continues - hold the door for someone and smile!

This over the past week or so, we've had some fun with bears (not real ones of course 😏). The first is our representations of various types of governments including direct democracy, representative democracy, theocracy, monarchy, oligarchy and anarchy...can you guess which is which?? Here are some photos of our work: The second work we did, this time with bears of the gummy variety, was to test the effect of osmosis using various solutions. In the photo, the regular bear (orange) is being compared to bears that were submerged in distilled water (green) and sugar water (red). We found that all of the bears grew in the various solutions, except the salt water bear (not pictured) which shrank and became sort of hard!

It's Mme. Cullen's last week with us! We'll miss her 😥 Mon. Dec. 2 Make sure to bring your camera/device to continue with photography assignments! Reverse advent calendar - information to be discussed... Reading notebooks to be submitted for "Daily 3" Health assignments (not handed-in Friday) are due Tues. Dec. 3 Mme away in am at PD Careers Wish List/Dream Cloud overdue...must be turned in TODAY! Tools of the Trade assignment due at the end of the period Sciences - osmosis & diffusion experiment Wed. Dec. 4 Research on government types begins today Thurs. Dec. 5 MATH WORKSHEETS, QUIZZES, EXTRAS DUE by the end of the period TODAY! Evaluation is on Mon. Dec. 9 Science experiment write-up and report due today Microscope labelling activity due for correction (at the end of the period) Fri. Dec. 6 Types of government research assignment & representation due today "Narrowing the idea" proof of writing