Monthly Musical Update

Dear Parents,

In Grade 9 music students have started working on an Ensemble guitar project, where they are combining Finger Style technique and chord strumming to play various songs.  Students have chosen their songs and started to practice them.  We will perform in an in-class recital next month.

Students are very excited for the upcoming Talent Quest, and I’d like to share some of the details with you.  As a reminder, this Wednesday is the last day to sign up for auditions, and the audition schedule will be emailed to you shortly thereafter.  For the students’ audition, we only require them to have completed the first 60 seconds of their act.  Also, please help your children to make hard-copies of their music if they are using a backing track, as Youtube links are not allowed.  Good luck to everyone on their auditions!

Musically yours,

Ms. Shay

Russian January Newsletter

Dear Parents of Grade 9,

We started the new year with review of all topics covered starting from September.
During January, students learned 

• How to introduce themselves in Russian
• Asking the basic question
• What is this?
• Colors

Also they had an assessment and they did a pretty good job.
In February, they are going to work on the following researches about Russian language and culture.

1. The President of Russia 
2. Moscow, the Capital of Russia
3. Famous Russian actors
4. Famous Russian singers
5. Famous Russian soccer players
6. Russian traditional clothes
7. Russian food

 Thank you very much.

ICT Newsletter

Grade 9 students have completed Document Production unit successfully. Different types of text formats such as plain text and rich text format were introduced. Students have worked in details on Microsoft Office Word 2007 to master:

• setting page size, orientation, number of columns and line spacing
• using page margins and gutter purposefully
• explaining why it is necessary to use page, section and column breaks, to adjust pagination and to avoid widows and orphans
• setting line spacing, including: single, 1.5 times, double, multiple, spacing before and after paragraphs
• formatting text as bulleted or numbered lists to meet the needs of the audience
• customizing headers and footers by inserting date, page number, text, image and document property fields
• inserting and editing images and tables

Students have discussed the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts. Moreover, bookmarking and inserting hyperlink allowed students to navigate to sections of documents with multiple pages. Students can also use Google Docs for word processing and document production.