New website and opportunity for employment

Hi folks,
I have created a new classroom website, which you can find at mmeoconnor.webs.com. This blogger site will be shut down soon, so please change your bookmark! If you would like to keep in touch, I also have a teacher facebook account: Mme-mo O'Connor (or search for me using my email address: mmeoconnor@gmail.com).

On a completely different note, I am now the president of my choir's non-profit board of directors, and we are looking to hire someone to do postering for our concerts this year. The job would entail picking up a large pile of posters roughly one month before each show, and then going into stores/coffee shops downtown, Fernwood, Fairfield, Oak Bay, and occasionally also Sidney, and asking them to put the poster in their window. The pay is 50c per poster, which works out to be roughly $50-75 per show (negotiable), and you would need to have access to a car (and a licence!) in order for it to be worth your while. A calendar of shows can be found at voxhumanachoir.ca. Please email me if you're interested! mmeoconnor@gmail.com

Merci, et bonne journée!
Mme O

Report cards, Egyptian gods and goddesses, and TOCs

Hi folks,
FYI parents: report cards were sent home today. They are an abridged version, and show an amalgamation of the Term 1 and 2 marks that came home with the students' term reflections in December and March.

As those who were not on the music trip know, I've been away since midway through Wednesday morning. It looks like I will be away for a couple more days, but the doctor says I can go back to work on Thursday (thank goodness! I'm not good at slowing down..). This means that our presentations of Egyptian gods/goddesses will be pushed back to Thursday. Our health ed sessions, planned for this week, will be pushed back to next week

I have left some detailed plans for the TOC (I'm not sure yet who it will be), and you'll be continuing your study of Egypt/Chemistry/Physics. A couple of the activities are posted to the blog on the "Terme 3" page ("Les structures et les forces" near the bottom of the page), and I'd appreciate someone signing in to the media cart, going to the blog, and bringing up the powerpoint (full screen) when s/he wants to do that activity. Merci!

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday!
À bientôt, mes amis,
Mme O

Health Education and Gymnastics

Hi there,
This is just to let you know that we began a unit on healthy choices today. The community / school nurses have not been funded to present to any grades higher than grade 6 for the past few years, so I will be teaching the unit again this year. The unit is based on VIHA's grade 7 curriculum guide, and I have indicated on the calendar which topics will be covered on which day. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I have also arrranged for our class to take 2 field trips to Victoria Gymnastics on April 12 and 19. The cost of these trips has been covered by a generous grant from PAC. Please let me know if you would like to supervise either or both of these field trips.

Please note that forms for the upcoming curriculum completion day (Friday, April 13) will be coming home either today or tomorrow, indicating if your child has completed all work to date (in Term 3), or is missing assignments. All missing work must be turned in by Tuesday if the student wishes to leave early on Friday.

Thanks,
Mme O