A short week again this week – teachers are gathering at Centennial Secondary today for a Professional Development Day called Layering Strategies.

1. “I” Day is approaching and many students have overdue assignments.  Have you submitted all 4 tasks for the Empires Project, all of your Literature Circles, Literary Devices Poster?  Are you on track for Math?  Students will receive invitations to “I” Day during the coming week.
2. Check one of the recent student posts about last weeks Clubs Day – Robots/Making Motors and the student post about the Math on the Mountain Middle Magnet workshop
3. Students had the enrichment opportunity to write the Caribou Math Contest from Brock University on Wednesday. Students are able to log in to check their results.  We will be reviewing the questions and the responses.  There is a daily puzzle that appears often on the contest and we found encourage students to try them out throughout the week.
4. Div 6 & 7 sold, made and delivered Candy Grams on Tuesday.
5. On Valentine’s Day the grade 6/7 students spend the LA class exploring love poems and sonnets.  We explored some classic sonnets and looked a some lyrics across the decades. 
6. Math 7 & 8 both wrote Geometry tests this week… stay tuned to marks from Ms. Abbot and Ms. Moody.
7. Maya, Kylee and Troy participated in the Me to We Aboriginal Education trip to deliver thousands of dollars of sports equipment for the Ditidaht Community on Vancouver Island, this past weekend. The Aboriginal Me2We students shared in cultural activities.
8. Several MACC students participated in a wrestling competition at Hillcrest on Thursday afterschool.  Great work team!
9. On Thursday, students had to opportunity to explore the Autonomous Learners Model and 6 different learner types.  We had much discussion about the characteristics on these profiles: Successful Learner, Challenging Learner, Dropout Learner, Underground Learner, Twice Exceptional Learner and the Autonomous Learner. 
10. We introduced biographies this week by investigating people and looking at the information available from biographies.  Students have brainstormed interesting politicians, leaders, artists, writers, spiritual, musicians, scientists/inventors/creators, athletes and ones that defy category.  We will be re-visiting these over the next several weeks and will evolve into a project.

Hope you are enjoying your Pro-D Day!