March at Acadia JHS!

IMPORTANT DATES FOR MARCH



*Spring break is from March 25-March 29th - enjoy your week off and hopefully the weather cooperates!


*Here is the link to Acadia's March Newsletter.



***Here is a reminder from the March newsletter about exams:

Please note that all students at Acadia write exams in June. The dates

and times of specific subjects and grades is not yet set, but please plan

on having all students available to write their exams on

June 12, 13, 17 and 18.

We strongly encourage parents not to leave for summer trips

until exams are over.

February 2013 at Acadia Junior High - Important Dates

Here is the February- March newsletter update! 

Click here -

http://www.pembinatrails.ca/acadia/newsletter/Acadia%20Newsletter%20-%20January%202013.pdf

Important Dates
Please come check in on your student's progress!
Parent conferences are Tuesday, February 12th from 7-9 pm.

Please visit the online appointment scheduler
(click on it) to arrange appointment times (as per the letter sent home with your Acadian student). 

Please contact Mr. Paukovic by email if you do not have your login information.


Louis Riel day (no classes) is Monday, February 18th.

Please come check in on your student's progress!The last set of scheduled parent conferences are Wednesday, February 20th from 5-8 pm.

Happy New Year! January and February at Acadia!

Welcome back to class, 8-2, 9-2 and 9-7!  So glad to see you waking up early and ready for school after a restful winter break.

There are no school holidays for students in January.


Have a great start to your NEW YEAR at Acadia Junior High School.

November at Acadia JHS!

*Here is Acadia's NOVEMBER newsletter to stay on top of current events at the school.  It was emailed Tuesday, Nov. 6th at 8 am to all parents/guardians that have supplied Acadia with a working email address!

*Grade 9 Take Your Kid To Work day is Wednesday, November 7th.  Students and parents please contact Mr. Paukovic (extension 3314) if you have any questions about the programme.  Students were asked to find a workplace and submit their paperwork to Mr. Paukovic a few weeks ago.


*Parent teacher interviews are:

Wednesday, Nov. 7th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 15th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Please bring your Acadian student with you! You will look at your first two math tests and talk about goals for math this year.  For science, you will set some goals and reflect on what we've talked about so far.



*Term 1 ends on Thursday, November 29th.



*There is no school on Friday, December 7th.



*Report cards will be sent home Wedneday, December 19th.

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