Last Day is Thursday!!

Hello WPS families,  MyCBE-accessing-online-report-card (1).pdf We wanted to share a couple of key dates: June 25: Last day of classes/school for WPS students June 26: It is that time of year to report student achievement through a report card. We are asking you to view the report card through MYCBE/Powerschool. Once logged in, you will see an additional tab titled "Report Card". Select this tab to view the report card. Should you wish to have a printed report card, please contact your child's homeroom teacher to make a request and arrangements will be made through the office. *attached are instructions to access report cards through Powerschool, should you need more detail.  *our school website may not reflect the above dates, as the CBE traditional calendar is reflected in that calendar and not WPS individual dates listed above.  Take care,  Willow Park School

Weekly Plan for June 15-19

Hello students!

Guess what? Only 2 more weeks of online school!!! You've almost finished grade7! Hip Hip Hooray for you! We teachers are so proud of your hard work. You've demonstrated great responsibility, determination, perseverance and maturity in keeping up with your studies. Online schooling has been frustrating at times but you have learned new independent learning and technology skills.

Perseverance means you keep trying do do something, even though it is very hard. This is a valuable characteristic to have. It will take you far in life. Thank you all for persevering through online school and doing your work. I know it was hard. I know it was unfair. I also know that perseverance is a quality you have to develop inside yourself, no one can give it to you. You have to give it to yourself. All of your teachers are proud of you for persevering in your studies.

Okay, life lesson is finished for now. There is only 1 assignment due this week. RR5 is due Wednesday. Reading Response 5 includes both writing and visual. Please demonstrate your best writing and thinking skills. If you have forgotten the format, look at earlier RR5 posts, or the blog Resources, or review your previous RRs in your docs.

Friday we will have another Video Party. Email Ms. Brown at aibrown@cbe.ab.ca if you would like to have your video shown. Party 1 was awesome!! No one from 7-1 participated :( but 7-4 and 7-2 did. Thanks to F., A., E. and S. for showing your videos!!

Have a good week!
Ms. Brown

Weekly Plan for June 8 - 12

Hello students,

This week you have 3 assignments to work on: the Video Time Capsule, journaling and RR5. The Video Time Capsule is due today. RR5 book needs to to finished by Wednesday, June 10. The writing and visual are due next week on Wednesday, June 17.

On Friday, we're having a special Film Party. All of you are invited to show your videos!! It is going to be so much fun.

Keep the yearbook photos coming! Send them to me and I'll forward them to yearbook.

Have a great week and be productive.
Ms.Brown

Uploading your video

Please go to Google Classroom and watch the 2 short videos. They explain uploading your video onto Google Classroom. It's not hard, you can do it. (Probably easier and faster than your parents.)

I miss you all. I hope you allow your video to be shown at the Flex Time Video parties. Why not? I bet some of you looks different now. Are you taller? Is your hair longer?

Weekly Plan for June 1-5

Hello everyone!

Happy June! Can you believe we made it to June? Grade 7 is almost over, but not yet. You have just a few more things to do. You can do it!

This week we're wrapping up the video and preparing for next week's reading response. If you missed a week or 2, read all the posts you missed. READ the Video Time Capsule assignment posted under Google Classwork. Carefully re-reading an assignment helps your brain figure it out.

You have 3 assignments this week:
1. Filming and Editing your Video Time Capsule assignment. Film, add music, edit, add text and proof read. I'll let you know how to upload and send it Wednesday.

2. Reading in preparation for RR5. RR5 book must be finished by June 10 (next Wednesday); writing and art piece are due June 17. Daily reading will help you keep your skills as you go onto grade 8.

3. Write at least 1 Covid-19 Journal entry. Pick a prompt you like.

Good luck filming! If you work everyday, it will be less stressful then leaving it to the last minute.
Ms. B 

Bored??? Remember this?

Reading on the Go

The Calgary Public Library has a great digital library for teenagers.
Google Calgary Public Library, click on Digital Library, click on A-Z Resources.
Scroll down to TeenBookCloud. 

Click and pick a book.

They have a wide variety of graphic novels, fiction and non-fiction, even AP English books.

Yearbook Challenges

Yearbook Challenges
This is your opportunity to add your photo to the WPS Yearbook! Send your pictures to me and I will put them in the WP Google Drive for Ms. Coles. *Please do not include anyone who does not attend WPS. 

Challenges

1. Creating/Learning through the Arts while learning from home.

• Students can provide photos of continued learning through the Arts from home. Examples may include, but are not limited to: Writing a Song: picture of them playing it, creating a sculpture: picture of them making it/ or final product, Writing Poetry: Share a picture of their final poem. etc.

2. Online Learning Experiences/ Collaboration:

• Students can submit a screen grab of their Google Meets time, or have someone take a picture of them during their learning time at home (show them working on something for school, writing/drawing/painting etc.

3. Photos Students had taken before "physical distancing/ online learning" started.

• Students can upload any photos they might have taken while still at the school together, which could include: teams, clubs, collaboration, class activities, ACE, etc

4. Keeping Active While Apart

• Students can share photos of them being active (biking, walks, gardening, skateboarding), taking part in their hobbies like painting/drawing/ taking pictures, playing a board-game, or working on a puzzle. Other photos might include them still taking lessons "virtually" like piano, guitar, or dance classes. Students should appear in the photo as well

5. Positive Messages

• Students can write positive messages to share with the school (they should be generic and not specifically addressed) on a piece of paper/ Bristol board and have someone in their household take a picture of them holding the message.

*please don’t include siblings under 18 or friends/siblings that don’t attend WPS in your photos.