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



Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Classroom News - Oct. 22

Just to let everyone know, I will not be at school tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 23) as I will be accompanying Mrs. Pfeifer and the Grade 8 students to Saltcoats for a Leadership Conference. I have included Thursday's homework in this blog in case I am not able to get to the school tomorrow evening [note: the students may not have some of the assignments yet].

For Homework:
Math 7 - 3.9 Worksheet: Expressing Fractions as Decimals (due Thursday, Oct. 23)
Math 6 - R82 Worksheet (due Thursday, Oct. 23)
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)
Math 6 - Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers Test (Monday, Oct. 27)
Art - Halloween Character Assignment (Wednesday, Oct. 29)
Career Guidance 7 - Personal Character Webs (*extension; due Wednesday, Oct. 29)

Thursday's Assigned Homework:
English 7 - Lesson #6 worksheet (due Friday, Oct. 24)
Math 6 - The Changing Caribou Populations assignment (due Monday, Oct. 27)
LA - Island of the Blue Dolphins Chapters 5-8 questions: #1-15 (due Thursday, Oct. 30)
LA 6 - "The Young Maple Tree" questions and definitions (due Friday, Oct. 31)

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