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Good evening everyone, just a few reminders for tomorrow:
For Language: We covered how to write a hamburger paragraph...with detail. The focus of our writing was to complete a hamburger paragraph by writing one of your supporting paragraphs for next month's S.O.T.M's using one of the character traits (team player, fair or great goal setter). I have attached the photo of the note below for your reference. Tomorrow you are to come to class with a paragraph written to be edited by a peer, and I want to see some of your work!!
For Math: 7's we reviewed how to find the area of a triangle and how to find the area of a parallelogram. Both were done by doing a worksheet and I worked with some of you so that you got the concept and it seemed that many of you were having success. Make sure you are done your work for tomorrow...please!
8's we reviewed circumference and I am happy to say that most of you were getting the work. I worked closely with some of you who were not clear on the basics and by the end I felt good that we were done. Work will be checked tomorrow too!
In Science: Mrs. Nicholson wants the 7s to find the definitions of the words in the photo below. Please use your time to look them up. The 8's you have a cool lesson on cells tomorrow.
I have posted the YouTube clips from yesterday...it was fun. Plus some Shakesperience photos as well. See you tomorrow!
Science Vocabulary
Hamburger Language Graphic Organizer!
Shakespearience
Insulting each other - Shakespeare Style
The 7/8 girls...playing Hamlet!
J.G., J.H., K.P.J. playing a scene from "Romeo and Juliet!
Evening Everyone! I hope all of you had a great afternoon and that you were behaved for the unsuspecting supply teacher while I was at a workshop! I'm sure that you were all angels! ;)
Today we began the day with our Geometry and Spatial Sense Unit TEST! Oh the stress! Hopefully all went well for you today and those of you who did not finish, you may finish tomorrow morning!
Tomorrow morning we will begin our measurement unit and cover the learning goals for that unit tomorrow AM!
We didn't have time for a whole language lesson, but some of you were given the opportunity to do some silent reading.
After lunch you had an opportunity to get into your groups and start brainstorming for your PSA's for health. I will be marking your notes and looking for your creativity! See some cool PSA's below!
Next you had Science for a double period, some of you did ecosystems and some of you did cells. Work is due ASAP to Mrs. Nicholson so get it done!
See you all tomorrow! TTYL :)
P.S. - I hope all of the auditions and interviews went well for our Wexford and King applicants! Can't wait to hear your good news! <3
Wow, I can hardly believe that today is the end of the week. I am feeling tired from this week and I bet that most of you are feeling the same.
This morning we started with math and continued with rotations in the coordinate plane. If you are unsure of the strategies we used please refer to yesterday's blog post to watch the links. Homework is in the pictures below please have it done for Monday as I will be checking it. I also would like to have a test either Monday or Tuesday so please have your questions ready for Monday!
We read to our reading buddies after recess and it was nice to see most of you connecting with the little people from our school reading to them and having your buddies read to you. We will work with the iPods next week and play around with them.
After some more math we revisited the Language lesson from yesterday and talked about writing forms. Many of you had some great ideas and I could see that you had thought about your answers. Homework for the weekend is a journal response, see picture below. If your response is less than 12 sentences we have a problem!
We had dental screening today and those of you who were absent will have missed it for this year.
You ended the day with Mrs.Nicholson, working with the Netbooks and setting up your passwords. She also had you doing some research online. Hopefully most of you got your research done and I am looking forward to using the Netbooks next week too!
Okay, that's all for now. Have a great long weekend and I'll see you on Monday! ;)
So we are halfway done...and it feels good. Glad that we are getting back into the swing of things and that routines are falling back into place.
This morning began with a math quiz on Transformations. It covered the topic of translation and rotation. Most of you finished before recess, which means good things for me and your understanding. After the quiz we watched 2 videos on rotation. See below.
Your homework tonight is to write a journal explaining the rules for rotating an object clockwise and counter clockwise in the coordinate plane. It is due tomorrow.
For language we covered the topic of Audience. Who the audiences are for different types of writing. We also discussed what the relationship was between the purpose for writing and the audience. We decided that when you have a purpose for writing you must also have the audience in mind so that it is relevant to the person who may be reading the text. For tomorrow you must bring a list of 15 examples of writing forms (lectures, articles, letters). We will discuss this in class tomorrow so hopefully you will have some ideas when we begin because half of our literacy period will be devoted to going to reading buddies.
After lunch we discussed our next history project. Where you will be responsible for creating a collector coin based on a person either from New France - grade 7s or Confederation - grade 8s. We watched the following videos and will discuss the project more in depth the next day we have History.
For tomorrow you also have the health lecture reflection due. 6 sentences along with your notes from the film. Please get this done tonight.
See you tomorrow...it's supposed to get warmer and I'm looking forward to the change from cold to warm! :)
I am not sure about any of you but I found that waking up this morning was tougher than yesterday. Hopefully you're all getting your rest and you're adjusting back to a school schedule and not a holiday schedule.
Today in Math we continued working on reflections in the coordinate plane. We did two activity sheets to consolidate our learning from yesterday. Tomorrow we will begin the day with a brief quiz on transformations and reflections. Please see the two quick instructional videos below to remind you of these concepts. Study and hopefully all will work out. After the quiz we'll start on rotations! And then my friends we are done this unit!!
For Language we started reviewing the different Purposes for Writing and in your seating groups you brainstormed ideas about "Why people write". We generated a class list and then reviewed the 11 Key Purposes for Writing. For homework you are to brainstorm 10 different audiences for writing answering the key idea "Who is this piece of writing for?".
After lunch we watched the TED talk "What's wrong with the way people eat?" and revisited some ideas about health and healthy eating. We talked about the lecture and you are all to hand in your jot notes from the lecture in addition to writing a 6-7 sentence response to your reactions about the lecture. Plese revisit the lecture below if you forget some of the points.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with Science. I have attached Mrs. Nicholson's notes and you are responsible for a lab report per group. More details to follow but it's due on Thursday.
FYI- We will have to discuss the French computer lab fiasco tomorrow! I feel a detention is in order. :(
Okay, so that's all for today. See you tomorrow! :)
Wow! Two weeks away and I have forgotten how tiring our days are! Glad to be back with all of you though and happy to hear that most of you had a good break.
For math we learned about reflections on the coordinate plane. Please review the video below, and do your homework. See photo below!
For language we reflected on getting a fresh start for the new year and what that meant to all of us. I had you write a reflection. See photo below.
After lunch you had computers, gym and French. I hope all went well. I heard good things from Mrs. Nicholson and she said that you all cooperated well.
Finally we finished the day with art. You are to create a 2013 themed poster. Please see the criteria attached!
Okay, that's all. Have a great night and see you all tomorrow! Oh yes, I almost forgot...something to make you laugh!
Math homework
Art assignment - due next Monday - DAY 2
Journal Reflection
Our ideas from our class discussion about what the New Year means to us!
