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, September 30, 2008

Classroom News - Sept. 30

For Homework:
Math 6 - Page R78 (subtraction of large numbers) (due Wednesday, Oct. 1)
Math 7 - Page 120 #1-12 and Page 124 #1-16 (dividing decimals) (students do as many questions as needed for mastery) (due Wednesday, Oct. 1)
Creative Writing - Island of the Blue Dolphins 'Create-the-First-Chapter' good copy (typed or handwritten) (due Wednesday, Oct. 1)
Novel Study - Read Island of the Blue Dolphins Chapters 1-4 (due Friday, Oct. 3)
Health - Unit I Title Page "Entering the Teen Years..." (due Friday, Oct. 3)

Monday, September 29, 2008

Classroom News - Sept. 29

Happy Monday to everyone,

I hope that everyone's weekend was great. As for myself, I am glad to be back after attending a conference in Regina on Thursday and Friday. It sounded like the class (and the substitute) enjoyed the two days that I was gone...everyone survived!!!

For Homework:
Spelling 7 - Lesson #4 (due Tuesday, Sept. 30)
Creative Writing - Island of the Blue Dolphins 'Create-the-First-Chapter' good copy (typed or handwritten) (due Wednesday, Oct. 1)

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Substitute Teacher

Just to let everyone know, I will not be at school Thursday and Friday (Sept. 25 + 26). I have to attend a teacher's conference in Regina.

I will not be able to post classroom news during these two days (as I won't know what is going on?!?!)

Mr. McDowell

Classroom News - Sept. 24

Throughout the day today, we accomplished a number of things:

- Grade 6 started their new math unit "Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers".
- Grade 7 learned how to divide decimals in math (a continuation of their "Decimal Numbers" unit).

- The entire class has just recently started a novel study for "Island of the Blue Dolphins". We have not read anything yet from the book.
- The entire class continued to learn about Ecosystems as part of their science unit.

For Homework:
Math 6 - R73 worksheet (due Thursday, Sept. 25)
Math 7 - Section 3.6 #1-6 (due Thursday, Sept. 25)
Science - Change in Ecosystems worksheet and Ecosystems t-shirt (due Monday, Sept. 29)
Spelling 6 - Lesson 3 Test (Monday, Sept. 29)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Aware of Classroom Blog???

If you are reading this, then you are already aware of our classroom blog. However, to ensure that I know "who" has visited this webpage, please leave a comment and/or your name (in this post). Leaving a comment will inform me about those students who have communicated the classroom blog to their parents.

THANK YOU