Wednesday 29 January 2014

Flick!

Some Wolfe teachers attended an iPad learning session after school last Wednesday and we discovered a new app... Flick.  Flick is a program that allows electronic devices on the same network to share documents.  This way, if students want to send me something or I want to send them something, we can "flick" it to each other rather than email it and wait for the document to go through the vsb firewall.  It works on PCs, laptop, Mac, iDevices, and some tablets, and it's free!  Here is the website to find it, as its not searchable at the App Store at the moment. 


http://getflick.io/


Let's try it out and see if it makes our lives a little easier! 


SS 

Thursday 23 January 2014

Internet Safety Reminder

Just a quick reminder that Division 2 is studying Human Reproductive Health this term.  They are curious many of them may have questions about what we discuss in class.  Unfortunately, some students will turn to the internet to answer those questions.  Please ensure that you have proper parental controls on your search engines so they don't see images that are inappropriate and be sure to check your internet search history.  


Hopefully this unit will lead to some interesting discussions! 

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Term 2 is in Full Swing!

It's crazy to think that Spring Break is only 7 weeks away!  You can probably feel it at home though as there are projects galore.  Upcoming dates and deadlines:

Thursday, Jan 23 - Refugee Essay Rough Draft Due
Friday, Jan 24 - Gr. 7 Tupper In-Boundary Applications Due
Monday, Jan 27 - Real & Surreal/Distortion Art Due
Tuesday, Jan 28 - Skating
Wednesday, Jan 29 - Good Copy of Refugee Essay with Bibliography Due
Thursday, Feb 6 - Div. 2 Science Fair (Renewable Energy Project Due)
Friday, Feb 7 - Gr. 6 Part One of Country Project
Friday, Feb 7 - Gr. 7 Hamber In-Boundary Applications Due
Thursday, Feb 13 - Carnival Presentations
Saturday, Feb 15 - Cross Boundary Applications Accepted
Tuesday, Feb 18 - Gr. 6 Part Two of Country Project
Monday, Feb 24 - Skating
Tuesday, Feb 25 - Skating
Thursday, Feb 27 - Pink Shirt Day

We also have some charity intiatives that the Humanitarian Club is running.  For the month of January, kids are collecting spare change for the "Bucks for Bricks" campaign that funds the construction of schools in the Third World.  Please send your donations to school over the next couple weeks.

Special thanks to the parents of Div. 2 who volunteered to join us on our snowshoeing trip.  It was great fun!

Monday 13 January 2014

Basketball Season!

Just a special thank you to two talented and dedicated parents of Div. 2.  Both Shea's dad Patrick and Liam's mom Carrie have volunteered to coach our Senior Basketball teams.  Another Wolfe parent John Kim has also volunteered to coach the Junior Boys.   It should be a great season! Don't forget to come to the games and cheer us on. 


Jr. Boys
Games - Mondays.
Practice - Friday 3pm - 4pm
Coach - John Kim, Jeff Grant,
Teacher Sponsor - Elisha Bonnis (Games) and Sarah Collins (Practice)


Jr. Girls
- Playing with Senior Girls

Sr. Boys
Games - Wednesdays.
Practices - Friday 8am - 8:45am
Coach - Carrie Van Kalsbeek
Teacher Sponsors - Shannon Soper (Games) and Cynthia Harper (Practices).


Sr. Girls with Jr. Girls.
Games - Thursdays
Practices - Monday 8am - 8:55am and some Thursday mornings (TBA).
Coach - Patrick Baker & Susan Segers
Teacher Sponsor - Linda Andrews & Arlene Wise (Games)  

Wednesday 8 January 2014

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has had a fantastic holiday and a happy New Year!  Welcome back to Division 2.  2014 is going to be great.  We start the year with snowshoeing and skating field trips.  We also have our refugee essays due on Jan 27th.  I can't wait to read them!


2014 and term two will also begin with a bunch of cool projects.  In Social Studies, students are beginning to explore Egyptology.  In Science, Division 2 students will be creating models on renewable resources.  French students also have a project coming up about the Carnival in Quebec.  It's going to be  a great term!