Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Wednesday...Almost last day of Presentations!
Woo hoo! We are almost through the entire grade 7/8 class of presentations for History! So glad that they are almost done! Hopefully all of you are ready to get back into the swing of things with Mrs. Nicholson and the new Science building project.
This morning we spent pretty much getting through all of the History presentations. It was great to see so many of you organized and presenting with such confidence. We have a few stragglers on Friday to do a re-present and then we're on to a collector coin activity.
Please finish all math for tomorrow as we will revisit it. Also if you need extra help we will be working in class on translations for one more day.
A science work period will be given first thing tomorrow, so bring your plans and blueprints and get ready to WORK!
Okay that's all for now, see you tomorrow! :)
This morning we spent pretty much getting through all of the History presentations. It was great to see so many of you organized and presenting with such confidence. We have a few stragglers on Friday to do a re-present and then we're on to a collector coin activity.
Please finish all math for tomorrow as we will revisit it. Also if you need extra help we will be working in class on translations for one more day.
A science work period will be given first thing tomorrow, so bring your plans and blueprints and get ready to WORK!
Okay that's all for now, see you tomorrow! :)
Monday, 10 December 2012
It's a boy!
Good evening to some of you! Hopefully I will be able to blog at school so that updates can happen. Please check the blog on a regular basis to see if I have updated it seeing as the computers are slow and posting to FB is difficult.
This morning we started with "The Inner City Angels" project meet and greet with the artist. What was amazing to me was the quality and creativity that many of the projects displayed. I was so impressed with the quality of the artwork from students as young as kindergarten and the end projects were just amazing! I love it! So, now I can't wait to see what you all produce!
Next we covered the concept of tranlations (slides). Please see the video below for a quick review.
This morning we started with "The Inner City Angels" project meet and greet with the artist. What was amazing to me was the quality and creativity that many of the projects displayed. I was so impressed with the quality of the artwork from students as young as kindergarten and the end projects were just amazing! I love it! So, now I can't wait to see what you all produce!
Next we covered the concept of tranlations (slides). Please see the video below for a quick review.
Homework tonight is: 7 - p. 234 #3-8 8- p.226+227 A-F, #1-3 & p.228 #4-6
Practice! Practice! Practice!
After lunch you had computers, where many of you printed up last minute corrections for your powerpoints and got some extra images for your posters. Then you had gym with Mrs. N!
At the end of the day we had our first New France presentation, and congratulations to the only team that was ready in our class on Monday. Tomorrow we'll focus mostly on Confederation and the grade 8's but 7's be ready for anything!
Okay that's all, a short post! See you in the morning and I hope Lahmar (teehee J.H.!) doesn't kick me too much tonight so I at least get some good sleep.
<3 Ms. K
Monday, 3 December 2012
Monday...the day before my big needle day!
Evening all. Hope you are all enjoying this mild weather before it gets really cold again. I think I even saw people playing basketball with t-shirts on?!! You are crazy!
Today we started with coordinates and used the ELMO for the first time! I was so glad it worked out, and happy that it set up so easily. On another happy note, many of you got the idea behind the four quadrants and were able to start to comfortably plot points on a grid. I am looking forward to your artwork for Wednesday and the other pictures are super difficult, so we'll see if you are all pros in the end.
After that we started our bullying unit prompted by the Showdown 2.0 performance on Thursday. We read a story called "Dear Bully" and I cried while reading the recount of Laurie's bullying experience. I was glad to hear many of you sharing your ideas and thoughts about Laurie's experience and how she was at peace now with her bully now that she was an adult. You had a writing response assigned, however the way you wish to respond to the story is up to you. You may write a journal, a letter to the bully or to Laurie and you may choose write an apology in the voice of a bystander that witnessed Laurie's bullying. What is most important is that you get your ideas down on paper because your final assignment is going to reflect all of your feelings from the readings this week and your reflections will be a huge resource to you. The excerpt for tomorrow is a poem, and I know you will like it.
This afternoon, I didn't really see you other than health. I want you to think about your health journals and the food groups that you may be lacking in or eating too much of. This will inform how we may approach our PSAs for the younger kids...and if I had your attention you would know that we are going to make films based on our data.
To finish off the day you had gym and Science with Mrs. Nicholson. You finished off the film and you need to have your notes on machines done. You also have a project due in French coming up and hopefully you are staying on task for that.
For tomorrow:
Math- mouse coordinate worksheet
Language - Showdown 2.0 journal, Dear Bully written assignment & SOTM
History - Soft due date Thursday! Presentations start next week!
Science - Movie notes
Art - t-shirt design
Health - Ideas for PSAs
French - Research projects
Okay, won't see you tomorrow as I am at my appointment, be good and have a great day. See you Wednesday. :)
Today we started with coordinates and used the ELMO for the first time! I was so glad it worked out, and happy that it set up so easily. On another happy note, many of you got the idea behind the four quadrants and were able to start to comfortably plot points on a grid. I am looking forward to your artwork for Wednesday and the other pictures are super difficult, so we'll see if you are all pros in the end.
After that we started our bullying unit prompted by the Showdown 2.0 performance on Thursday. We read a story called "Dear Bully" and I cried while reading the recount of Laurie's bullying experience. I was glad to hear many of you sharing your ideas and thoughts about Laurie's experience and how she was at peace now with her bully now that she was an adult. You had a writing response assigned, however the way you wish to respond to the story is up to you. You may write a journal, a letter to the bully or to Laurie and you may choose write an apology in the voice of a bystander that witnessed Laurie's bullying. What is most important is that you get your ideas down on paper because your final assignment is going to reflect all of your feelings from the readings this week and your reflections will be a huge resource to you. The excerpt for tomorrow is a poem, and I know you will like it.
This afternoon, I didn't really see you other than health. I want you to think about your health journals and the food groups that you may be lacking in or eating too much of. This will inform how we may approach our PSAs for the younger kids...and if I had your attention you would know that we are going to make films based on our data.
To finish off the day you had gym and Science with Mrs. Nicholson. You finished off the film and you need to have your notes on machines done. You also have a project due in French coming up and hopefully you are staying on task for that.
For tomorrow:
Math- mouse coordinate worksheet
Language - Showdown 2.0 journal, Dear Bully written assignment & SOTM
History - Soft due date Thursday! Presentations start next week!
Science - Movie notes
Art - t-shirt design
Health - Ideas for PSAs
French - Research projects
Okay, won't see you tomorrow as I am at my appointment, be good and have a great day. See you Wednesday. :)
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| Lucy and her friend after they had their faces painted at the Police Christmas Party. She was a unicorn and her friend was a butterfly! |
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| Journal from today |
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| Lucy riding a crazy motorcycle at the party on the weekend! |
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Tuesday Test Result Day!
Today was another busy day, with lots of work being done. We started the day with a language work period. You were all given the opportunity to work on your SOTM's. We decided that the soft due date would be this Friday and the hard due date was on Monday! I hope that you are all having an easy time figuring out who you might nominate and I am looking forward to your submissions. Remind me that tomorrow I should hand you out a sheet to you, to help with some ideas for transition words. B.C. had it and I photocopied it and it's on my desk ready to go in your language workbooks.
For math we took up the test and many of you have to take them home for signatures. The corrections and signatures are due tomorrow. Also please study for the retest tomorrow, this will be your final opportunity to redo your tests if you did not do well.
After lunch we had a double history period with many of you working on your poster templates and powerpoint presentations. Template plans are due before you get a board so please get these in to me ASAP!
In French you got time to work on the laptops on your French projects. Most of you have been put up to the task of researching French places and origins of the language. I am looking forward to seeing your final products.
At the end of the day you had Dance with Mr. Kidd. I hope that all went well there and I get to hear all good news about your behaviour. :)
As promised I have attached the links from Science:
http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/simple-machines/activities/simple-machines-1/
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.shtml
For tomorrow:
Math - Tests signed, study for tomorrow
Language - SOTM
Science - links above
History - poster template
Health - food journal tally
See you tomorrow!
For math we took up the test and many of you have to take them home for signatures. The corrections and signatures are due tomorrow. Also please study for the retest tomorrow, this will be your final opportunity to redo your tests if you did not do well.
After lunch we had a double history period with many of you working on your poster templates and powerpoint presentations. Template plans are due before you get a board so please get these in to me ASAP!
In French you got time to work on the laptops on your French projects. Most of you have been put up to the task of researching French places and origins of the language. I am looking forward to seeing your final products.
At the end of the day you had Dance with Mr. Kidd. I hope that all went well there and I get to hear all good news about your behaviour. :)
As promised I have attached the links from Science:
http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/simple-machines/activities/simple-machines-1/
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.shtml
For tomorrow:
Math - Tests signed, study for tomorrow
Language - SOTM
Science - links above
History - poster template
Health - food journal tally
See you tomorrow!
Monday, 26 November 2012
Monday...reflect, rotate and transform!
Evening Everyone! So today was a fresh start with our new math unit on Geometry and Spatial Sense. I saw many of you accessing your prior knowledge today and trying to remember what an isosceles triangle was and all of that other knowledge in the creases in your brains. We'll be talking more about this and covering it more in class.
In math today for both the 7s and the 8s it was the Remembering section of your texts, numbers #1-9. Please try all of the numbers as best you can and we'll revisit it tomorrow. Also, we need to review the tests from Friday. Some crazy things going on, you either did really well or not well, there wasn't a lot of between.
In language today we went up to the lab to continue researching your history projects. Some of you are still not making good use of your time and think that you are "finished" your research portions. I will meet with all of you tomorrow and we'll see if you have been thorough enough. I met with Mrs. Nicholson's class today and many of them still were missing data, information and had no clue really what they were supposed to be researching.
After lunch you did a tally of your health journals from last week. You need to look at your Canada's Food Guide suggestions for your ages and then do a tally of your food based on what it suggests. We will discuss your data next week. Hopefully some patterns will emerge and we can see where we are not meeting the guidelines to help as a starting point for our PSA's.
Next you had Science, with Mrs. Nicholson. I should have gotten the links that you looked at today. I will get them for tomorrow and will post them on the blog.
At the end of the day you had French with Mrs. Wong, and you went up to the computer lab. I will get the details from Mrs. Wong and post them up here too.
For tomorrow:
Math - 2D Geometry #1-9
Language - SOTM due soon
History - Research projects are due soon
Science - two worksheets for Mrs. Nicholson + Cornell notes for the chapter she specified
Health - Food journal tally
French - Project for Mrs. Wong on French?!
Art - t-shirt design due next art period
Have a good night and I'll see you tomorrow. Please find the success criteria for the art project attached in the photo below. :)
In math today for both the 7s and the 8s it was the Remembering section of your texts, numbers #1-9. Please try all of the numbers as best you can and we'll revisit it tomorrow. Also, we need to review the tests from Friday. Some crazy things going on, you either did really well or not well, there wasn't a lot of between.
In language today we went up to the lab to continue researching your history projects. Some of you are still not making good use of your time and think that you are "finished" your research portions. I will meet with all of you tomorrow and we'll see if you have been thorough enough. I met with Mrs. Nicholson's class today and many of them still were missing data, information and had no clue really what they were supposed to be researching.
After lunch you did a tally of your health journals from last week. You need to look at your Canada's Food Guide suggestions for your ages and then do a tally of your food based on what it suggests. We will discuss your data next week. Hopefully some patterns will emerge and we can see where we are not meeting the guidelines to help as a starting point for our PSA's.
Next you had Science, with Mrs. Nicholson. I should have gotten the links that you looked at today. I will get them for tomorrow and will post them on the blog.
At the end of the day you had French with Mrs. Wong, and you went up to the computer lab. I will get the details from Mrs. Wong and post them up here too.
For tomorrow:
Math - 2D Geometry #1-9
Language - SOTM due soon
History - Research projects are due soon
Science - two worksheets for Mrs. Nicholson + Cornell notes for the chapter she specified
Health - Food journal tally
French - Project for Mrs. Wong on French?!
Art - t-shirt design due next art period
Have a good night and I'll see you tomorrow. Please find the success criteria for the art project attached in the photo below. :)
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Thursday....baby day!
Surprise! I'm pregnant! So glad to hear that I will be missed at the end of the year. Sorry to let some of you down that I won't be here next year until the end. However, I am a mother and a teacher and am happy and blessed to be expecting again. Remember December 17th, is my next ultrasound and I could find out the gender of the baby...will it be a Jahmar or an Ashawntaya? Who knows!
We started this morning with a math review again. Please practice tonight on the links below because we have a test tomorrow!
Grade 7s- Look for adding and subtracting with integers
.http://www.aaamath.com/grade7.htm
Grade 8s - Look for multiplying and dividing integers
http://www.aaamath.com/grade8.htm
We also worked on a cheat sheet for integers that all of you can use next year and beyond. Don't lose them and please find the picture of the model below.
In English we followed up on the grammar lesson we did yesterday on there, their and they're. Your job today was to write 15 sentences in total. 5 sentences each - 5 for there, 5 for their and 5 for they're. There will be a quiz tomorrow!
After lunch you had French with Mrs. Wong. You are working in the computer lab on something and many of you have outstanding work due to her ASAP. Please get it done.
Then we had History half in the computer lab and half in class. You had to write up your plans for your posters and I would like them handed in by Friday (soft due date), Monday (hard due date).
We ended the day with a library exchange and it was so beautiful outside you might have thought it was spring out there. Have a great night and I'll see you tomorrow!
For tomorrow:
Math - Study for test, do review, practice games
Language - 15 sentences there, their and they're...quiz tomorrow
Science - check blog from yesterday, it's due Monday
Health - food journals
History - Keep researching
:)
We started this morning with a math review again. Please practice tonight on the links below because we have a test tomorrow!
Grade 7s- Look for adding and subtracting with integers
.http://www.aaamath.com/grade7.htm
Grade 8s - Look for multiplying and dividing integers
http://www.aaamath.com/grade8.htm
We also worked on a cheat sheet for integers that all of you can use next year and beyond. Don't lose them and please find the picture of the model below.
In English we followed up on the grammar lesson we did yesterday on there, their and they're. Your job today was to write 15 sentences in total. 5 sentences each - 5 for there, 5 for their and 5 for they're. There will be a quiz tomorrow!
After lunch you had French with Mrs. Wong. You are working in the computer lab on something and many of you have outstanding work due to her ASAP. Please get it done.
Then we had History half in the computer lab and half in class. You had to write up your plans for your posters and I would like them handed in by Friday (soft due date), Monday (hard due date).
We ended the day with a library exchange and it was so beautiful outside you might have thought it was spring out there. Have a great night and I'll see you tomorrow!
For tomorrow:
Math - Study for test, do review, practice games
Language - 15 sentences there, their and they're...quiz tomorrow
Science - check blog from yesterday, it's due Monday
Health - food journals
History - Keep researching
:)
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