WELCOME!!!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to Mr. McDowell's classroom blog. I am very excited to have a classroom webpage and I hope that you will find it useful. The purpose of this blog is to provide a convenient (and reliable) communication link between students, parents, the school and Mr. McDowell. I invite you to check this blog on a daily basis as I will be posting valuable information about the classroom and the school - including daily homework assignments, important dates, classroom/school news, etc.

For your convenience, you can also sign-up to receive "daily updates" from this blog that automatically gets sent to your email every day there is a new posting. Simply type in your email address into the 'submit' box found on the right side of this blog.

More importantly, if you ever have any questions or concerns about your son/ daughter, please do not hesitate to contact me via phone, email, or this blog:

M.C. Knoll School - 786-5540
Email - benson.mcdowell@gssd.ca



Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Classroom News - Oct. 21

Our class has been appointed to create posters for when the 'cattle scale' comes to our school on Oct. 29. If you are not aware of what the 'cattle scale' is, ask your son/daughter about it. In addition, please refer to the "upcoming events" heading for new events in our classroom and school (on the right column of the blog).

For Homework:
Language Arts - Island of the Blue Dolphins map assignment + read Chapters 5-8 (overdue Tuesday, Oct. 21)
Language Arts - Simile and Metaphor Worksheet (due Wednesday, Oct. 24)
Math 7 - 3.9 Worksheet: Expressing Fractions to Decimals (due Thursday, Oct. 25)
Spelling 6 - Lesson #6 Lesson and Test (due Friday, Oct. 24)
Spelling 7 - Spelling Test Redo (Friday, Oct. 24, Noon Hour)
Spelling 7 - Lesson #7 (due Monday, Oct. 27)
Career Guidance 7 - Personal Character Webs (due Monday, Oct. 27)
Math 6 - Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers Test (Monday, Oct. 27)

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