Strong Beginnings, Terry Fox & Thanksgiving happenings....

Strong beginnings:

This assessment took place on Sept. 21, 24 and 25th. Teachers are currently inputting the levels of literacy (reading literacy and mathematical literacy) into databases to help drive our preparation for individual students and classes as a whole. Please feel free to contact your child's ELA teacher for information on the reading and comprehension literacy testing (Fontas & Pinnell) or your child's math teacher to find out about the three measured areas in our Strong Beginnings (Number Sense, Algebra & Geometry, Number Computations).



Terry Fox Campaign:
Mr. Oberholtzer is spearheading the Terry Fox campaign again this year.  We are collecting donations by homeroom.  Please feel free to contact Mr. Oberholtzer to see how you can help with donating to our campaign for cancer research at 204-269-6210 (ext. 3397).

Special Dates to take note of at ACADIA JUNIOR HIGH!

There will be NO newsletter printed until November, so please check here for updates on important dates like:

October 8th, Monday - No Classes - Thanksgiving Monday 

October 10th, Wednesday - Meet the Teacher Evening (time to follow, location: Acadia gym)
*come and meet your child's teachers in an informal way and take a tour of the school

October 19th, Friday - S.A.G.E. province-wide professional development for educators - No Classes 

October 26th, Friday - Pembina Trails School Division Common Day - No Classes

November 7th, Wednesday - Parent/Student/Teacher Tri-Conferences at Acadia Junior High School   7:00 - 9:00 pm

November 15th, Thursday - Parent/Student/Teacher Tri-Conferences at Acadia Junior High School 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Term 1 ends - Thursday, November 9th  (for my students, this will be the last week I can take late assignments for Term 1 report cards).

Welcome Back to School!

Welcome all students of Acadia!  I am especially pleased to teach 8-2, 9-2 and 9-7 this year!

I hope you are enjoying getting back to school;  I am looking forward to learning about math and science with you.

Make sure to read your September newsletter!

Important  dates this month are:

Fri., Sept. 24th        Strong Beginnings.   No official classes.
Mon., Sept. 27th     Strong Beginnings.   No official classes.

All students will have a 1 hour appointment on one of those days to be assessed one-on-one for their literacy levels.  Students will also get the results from their mathematics assessments that they did in class earlier in September.  This data helps us prepare for a great year of moving each student onwards and upwards with their learning.

Tues., Sept. 28th      Grade 7 day.  Only grade 7's come to school.  

On this day, some grade 8's and 9's may have Strong Beginning appointments due to the fact that we have over 600 students this year!  Some grade 8 and grade 9 students may also be volunteering to serve lunch for grade 7 day as well.

We will be having a Terry Fox event for cancer awareness at the end of September, more details to be posted here soon.

A reminder to all math students in grade 8 and 9, math assignments will start the week of Sept. 10th.  Make sure when you access your Pearson textbook online, that you click on the "pdf book" version as indicated with the red arrow in the diagram above.

Summer holidays 2012!

Here is a Wordle of my blog from this past school year.  Looks like I say, "please", "science" and "download" quite often.

I also made a cloud with Tagxedo below.  Kind of the same yet different.

Please enjoy your summer students and families!
I will miss you, 9-2 and 9-4, I hope your transition to high school is smooth.

Acadia students, I am teaching two grade nine math and science classes this year and one grade eight mathematics.  Looking forward to seeing the class lists posted in early September!

Mrs. Snyder

June and Summer Holidays!

Happy June!

Lifeweek is June 21st to June 27th.  Please refer to the lifeweek booklet on the Acadia homepage and refer to the activity that your child is signed up for if you need further details.  Don't hesitate to contact the teachers in charge of your child's activity, they have all the specific details (transportation, times and activity locations) if your child is unsure of the schedule.

http://www.pembinatrails.ca/acadia/  click here to go to our school homepage and click on the LIFEWEEK BOOKLET link on the left banner.

Important dates

Thursday, June 28 - Report Cards Go Home / Honor Roll Assembly
*Thursday early dismissal schedule (2:35 departure)
*Assemblies periods 1, 2, and 3 (grades separated)

Friday, June 29 - Awards Assembly 9:30am / Last Day of Classes
*Student awards in the gym
*Family and friends welcome to attend

Exam Review Notice!

8-7 students/parents

All 8-7 mathematics regular exam reviews 

and 

8-7 science exam reviews 

have been handed out. 

Please ask your child to work on them every night for 5-10 minutes each.

Please download copies at home from your child's class page if needed. 

Students - You can sign into Edmodo and download a copy there!

Answer keys were posted Friday, June 1st on EDMODO.

9-2 students/parents

All 9-2 math exam review booklets 

and 

9-2 science exam review booklets 

 have been distributed.

Please ask your child to work on them every night for 5-10 minutes each.

Please download copies at home from your child's class page if needed.

Students - You can sign into Edmodo and download a copy there!

9-4 students/parents

All 9-4 science exam reviews have been distributed.

Please ask your child to work on them every night for 5-10 minutes each.

Please download copies at home from your child's class page if needed.

Students - You can sign into Edmodo and download a copy there!

Happy spring and almost summer for May of 2012!~

Here is the MAY newsletter at Acadia Junior High!

http://www.pembinatrails.ca/acadia/newsletter/Acadia%20Newsletter%20-May%202012.pdf

School "Days Off" for students

Note: There was a mistake in our AGENDA, the school had them printed off before the province changed a professional development day.  We ARE having REGULAR CLASSES on Friday, May 11th.

Monday, May 21st is the Victoria Day holiday, no classes. 

Friday, May 25th is a day off for students, us teachers have to attend special teaching classes of our own that day! :-)

Special School Activity Days

Friday, May 18th, there is our famous FREE Acadia Carnival for students in the afternoon only. Attendance will be taken in homerooms after 12:40. Food and games are free for Acadian students.

Lifeweek sign-ups took place last week and we have between 80 - 90% participation of each grade.  We want to have over 90% to ensure we will have 5 full days of activities again next June!!!!  Please make sure you have checked with Mrs. Sampson about joining an activity for June 21, 22, 25, 26, and 27th to close out your best year at Acadia yet!

Remember, May is busy with lots of events, but try to start STUDYING for EXAMS by using your REVIEW BOOKLETS for math and science a little bit EVERY NIGHT!

June will be here before you know it.

8-7: your first three exams are in the afternoon.  

You come to school between 12:45 and 1:00. 

Attendance is taken and exams are handed out just before 1:15.

Your science exam on Tuesday, June 19th is in the morning! Your should come to school that day only between 8:45 and 9:00 a.m.

Please bring your science textbook assigned to you back that morning!

9-2 and 9-4:  Your exams are all in the morning.

You should come to school between 8:45 and 9:00 a.m.

Attendance is taken and exams are handed out just before 9:15.

May 2nd - 9-2 and 9-4 Manitoba Electrical Museum Field trip

Thanks to all the volunteer (Hydro-Ex) guides at the museum at Harrow and Pembina for helping 9-2 and 9-4 learn about electricity and its development here in Manitoba.

Students came away with a variety of new ideas and wonder about how much more amazing it is to have electricity just an electrical outlet in the wall away!

Next Thursday, May 10th, students will visit IMAX to see 2 films to prepare us for our last unit in grade 9 science after Electricity......Space and the Cosmos:

The Cosmic Voyage  (click for more info)

Space Station  (click for more info)