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



Monday, December 16, 2013

Classroom News - Dec. 16

Happy Monday!

Please note the "reminders" section of the blog for a very busy "last week before X-mas holidays".

Homework
Career G. - Career Posters (OVERDUE)
Health - Nutrition TEST (Wednesday, Dec. 18)
Art - Google Doodle (Wednesday, Dec. 18)
Math - Probability TEST (Thursday, Dec. 19)
Math - Probability Board Game (Thursday, Jan. 9)

Reminders
- Santa is coming tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 17). If you are interested, you can have your picture taken with him for $1.00.
- Tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 17) is also MC Knoll Terrier Night. The price of admission is $10 for the entire family.
- Candy grams are being sold tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 17) and Wednesday, Dec. 18 for $0.25.
- Thursday, Dec. 19 is "Dress as a Christmas Character Day".
- Friday, Dec. 20 is "Pajama Day".
- Also, on Friday, Dec. 20, students are encouraged to bring board games from home.

Our WE ACT Club has chosen to participate in the Free the Children "Brick by Brick" program. We are asking students to donate any spare change they have to support this cause. Also, the WE ACT Club will be selling bracelets throughout the year for $2.00. Their goal is to raise $10 000 by the end of the year - which will build a school in Haiti.

* The following people have OVERDUE homework:
- DF        - HF         - KG             - NR

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