Wednesday, October 08, 2008

I'M BACK!!

Hello again to everyone! I'm back from the birth of my second child Vaive Michael Barrat Hickey! He was born on Saturday, September 27th @ 2:47am, weighing 7pound11ounces, in St. Joseph's Hospital. It was a very long Friday, but well worth everything with his arrival on Saturday. I would like to say thanks for all of the best wishes!

While I was away Mrs. Bacher was in for the week. I kept in contact with Mrs. Bacher and she stated that everything went pretty well. A couple of reminders to students about behaviour and work habits, but overall a good week!

This week we have been looking at where we are in the term and what we need to have done! It does seem that some students are starting to fall behind on their work, so today we have used as a catch up day on the following things:

SCIENCE PROJECT DUE TODAY - IS IT COMPLETE?
MATH UP-TO-DATE?
THE OUTSIDERS QUESTIONS/ASSIGNMENTS COMPLETE?
LANGUAGE POWER - UP TO LESSON 7 COMPLETE AND MARKED?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY ROUGH COPY COMPLETE AND READY FOR POWERPOINT?
LITERACY POWER UP-TO-DATE?
SPELLING LESSONS UP-TO-DATE?
MEDIA ASSIGNMENTS#1&2 COMPLETE?
HAVE YOU BEEN TAKING YOUR READ A LOUDS HOME AND READING/GETTING SIGNED BY PARENTS/GUARDIANS?
IS YOUR AGENDA COMPLETE?
HAVE YOU BEEN PUNCTUAL?
HAVE YOU HAD GOOD ATTENDANCE?
HAVE YOU SHOWN A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND GOOD WORK HABITS IN CLASS?

I TALKED ABOUT THESE WITH THE CLASS TODAY AS *EVERYONE* EXCEPT FOR ONE STUDENT STAYED IN @ LUNCH YESTERDAY FOR MATH WORK WHICH WAS OVER A WEEK LATE! WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO BECOME A HABIT! MAKE SURE YOUR WORK IS COMPLETED AND YOU GET THE EXTRA HELP IF NECESSARY! (After School or Homework Support on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 at Polytech)

I have also talked with students about their completion of work and habits in regards to attending the Social tomorrow and the Hagersville Trip on Friday (note sent home)
School work needs to come first over everything!

One last note, I sent home a Cookie Dough Fundraising form with ALL of the students yesterday. Please try to sell as much as possible because it does go back to the students! The class that sells the most will have a pizza party! All money and forms are DUE BY: OCTOBER 20th!

Thanks
Good to be back!
Mr. Hickey

1 comment:

Mr. RG said...

Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Hickey!!! Your class was good for me in the Arts during your absence, and their hallway behaviour seemed to be fine from what i saw.

i wonder who that ONE student was who didn't have to stay in? Must be the leading candidate now for year end awards, like Valedictorian, Math, and Citizenship.
Good job, whoever you are!

The rest of you better step it up. i'm marking those first three art assignments and phoning home for anyone who is not done!!!