Here are the websites to help you with the Career Research Project.

• Canlearn
• Canlearn Job Search
• Bureau of Statistics
• CareerZone

Hope everyone had a enjoyable and restful Christmas break.
We are back at it again. We have many fun and interesting things coming up in the next couple of months. First, I would like to welcome Ms. Emily Schellinck to the class. She will be completing a six week practicum in our room. She visited our class before the holidays and she has many great ideas for the weeks to come. I will update everyone on dates and times as Emily and I find out from the university. Second, we will be starting to plan and research our Heritage Fair Projects. This has been an ongoing intermediate project for the last 4 years.

The students in Division 17 built Graham Wafer Houses before we broke for the holidays. Here are some photos of the fun and the students’ finished houses. Enjoy.

The students in Division 17 created Remembrance Day Acrostic posters to decorate our gym for the assembly. Five classes took part in the gym decorations. When the assembly was over, the artwork was removed and taken to the Legion branch in Courtenay. The artwork decorated the Legion during their Remembrance Day ceremonies. A number of students had their artwork chosen to go into the Royal Canadian Legion’s Art Contest. More details to follow as their artwork is being judged.

The Grade Seven classes are starting to look at the Theory of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Here are two videos to check out.

Halloween is coming up this Monday. Halloween has become a major celebration around the world.  Canada.com has some interesting information about North American society’s shopping habits around Halloween.  People are now spending so much money on Halloween, that it is now the second biggest spending holiday for Canadian and American businesses.  Halloween follows behind Christmas and leads Back to School for most money spent on a holiday.This raises some interesting questions for you to ponder….

BIG PICTURE

• Do these statistics surprise you?
• What do our spending habits around Halloween say about us as a culture?

PERSONAL

• Are you looking forward to Halloween?
• What has been your very best costume?
• What is your favourite candy treat?
• Do you eat your candy all at once or do you ration it, only eating a few pieces of candy a day?

Looking forward to reading your comments!! Blockheads, is your job today (and beyond) to connecting with some of our Comox Valley neighbours. You are need to leave a comment at the Building Blocks site. It is also expected that you will leave some quality comments on any of the other blogs mentioned in this post. You are welcome to answer one of these questions or all of them. Remember, the better and more frequent the comments, the more likely you will get your blog soon.

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Over the years, I’ve had a lot of students ask me, “What is your favourite colour?” For many people the answer to this question pops into their head immediately, but not me. I always find it really difficult to answer. When I was much much younger, for a long time my answer was British Racing Green, which is a forest green. I liked this colour because it was the colour of my first bike and I think that the old racing cars look really sharp.  I’m not sure whether this really is my favourite colour of all time or if I just sounded official saying “British Racing Green”.

The problem now is that I like so many different colours, which makes it really difficult to pick only one. Maybe it’s time to narrow down my choices a bit further, but I think I need a little bit of help. So today, I need you to be colour sales people.

I’d really like to know what your favourite colour is, but I’d also like to know what makes that colour special for you. How could you “sell” me on the idea that this is the best colour ever? Is it how it makes you feel? How it looks? Has it always been your favourite colour?

Help me out Division 17!

Here is a great video that explains how the different rocks are formed. Using kitchen materials, Devin is able to how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks are formed.

The families, students and staff at Valley View Elementary are committed to fund raise for Cancer Research. We have a number of fun and exciting activities planned over the next two weeks. Please come and join us if you can.

1. On Tuesday September 20th, Valley View PAC is putting on a Pancake Breakfast and Book Sale for Tour de Rock Cops for Cancer. Please come out for the pancake breakfast on Tuesday morning starting at 7:30 – Mrs. Scheck assures us that she will not be flipping so that the pancakes should be safe to eat!
2. On the 28th we will again get a visit from the Tour de Rock Cops for Cancer Team.  This team is a group of police officers who are riding bicycles from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to Victoria.  This is a 500 km trip.
3. On the morning of Sept 30th, we will be taking part in our annual Terry Fox Run. We will have an assembly after recess which will be followed by the run. From the 26th to the 30th we will be collecting loonies and toonies for Terry.  This will wrap up our fundraising for Cancer Research.

Please dontate what you can. Hope to see you out participating.

Hello Everyone,
Welcome to Division 17′s classroom blog.  We are a class of Grade 6/7 students.  We will, once again, be hopefully, connecting with other people and classes around the world, using our blog.  Building Blocks will be our online site that will showcase our writing, podcasts and other projects that we will be undertaking in class this year. We will be working together with Mr. Ferneyhough’s, Mrs. Dawson’s and Ms. Rea’s Grade 6/7 classes as well.

We have many fun and exciting learning opportunities planned.  The students will have an opportunity to move from teacher to teacher to learn Math, Science and Social Studies.  We are also planning a few challenges for all 114 students.  So get your school supplies ready because we are going to hit the ground running!!  Onward and upward!!