Crazy Hair Day!

First of all, curriculum news - Literacy evaluations were returned today.  Please return them to school with a parent signature on them ASAP.  Since the two open response questions were not well done, you should also find a lined piece of paper with sample appropriate responses on them. We did those collaboratively today. We will have to revisit this and really practice this again, since many students did not answer them properly, even though the success criteria anchor chart and a sample response was hanging in the room!  Congratulations to Abbey and Maddy who did an excellent job on theirs!
The math test that was scheduled for this Thursday has to be postponed.  We will be forced to continue this unit after the holidays.  Today we had to spend another day on surface area of rectangular prisms - hopefully the practice work will be done well this time.  It is a good thing that I look at their work daily, so that I can see that we needed more guided instruction and practice!  Congratulations to the following students who received a "bye" in math today since their work was very well done:  Maddy, Hannah 22, Edxio, and Alysia.
Yesterday at mass, Father Roche distributed some interesting reading regarding a popular Christmas carol that we regularly sing.  Check out the visual below.  It is very interesting reading!

This afternoon we participated in our Crazy Hair Day assembly - another in a series of incentives that the students earned for their hard work during our fund raiser.  Many students came to school with crazy hair.  Then, to top it all off, some staff members had their hair done, or shaved, by professional stylists in front of the whole student body.  Check out the photos!  We were also entertained by the choir, rock band, and some crazy male teachers.

Choir

Rock Band

St. Gabriel's Temptations?????

The first set of "victims"

The second set of "victims"

The first victim to visit the shaver!

This brave soul "took it all off"!