Tuesday, December 8

 English

• Read your book club novel for 20 minutes.  You need to be finished your book by Thursday morning.

• Work on your short story.  Have a finished first draft in Google Classroom by the end of Friday’s class.

Math

• 6s - Today we learned about supplementary, complimentary, opposite, interior and exterior angles.  See Google Classroom.

• 7s - Today we did review for your test tomorrow on circles.  See Google Classroom.

Science

• 6s - Today was a work period for your airshow project.  Friday is presentation day.  You are also expected to hand in your diagrams, written explanations, and planes on Friday.

• 7s - Today you learned about the relationship between manufacturers and consumers.  You also watched a video about electronics.  See Google Classroom.

• Both grades will have a test next Thursday.  We will do some review next week to prepare.  I’ll post study guides in Google Classroom.

Social Studies

• 6s - Work period for inquiry presentation.  Due next Wednesday.

• 7s - Work period for War of 1812 project.  Due Friday.

Wednesday, December 2

 English

Bring 3 responses to the Week 4 Novel Study questions, direct and indirect characterization organizer, and your novel to the book club meeting tomorrow.

Complete your Story Map and Developing My Character organizer by Monday.  Remember to get it approved by me.

Math

6 - Test on area of polygons and composite shapes tomorrow.

7 - Finish circumference of a circle questions for tomorrow.  

Social Studies

6 - Aim to have your inquiry project finished by the 15th of December.  We'll present on the 16th and 17th.

7 - Aim to have your War of 1812 project finished by mid to late next week.  We'll present late next week and early the week of the 14th.

Tuesday, December 1

English

Keep reading your book club novel.  Your 4th meeting is Thursday morning.

Direct and indirect characterization organizer.  Bring to your meeting Thursday.

Math

6 - Review of Area of trapezoids, parallelograms, triangles, and composite shapes.

7 - Circumference of a circle lesson.  We'll do more practice tomorrow.

Science

6 - Preparing for airshow.  Today we reduced the distance you plane needs to fly from 10 m to 8 m, and the time aloft from 8 seconds to 5 seconds.

7 - Design Features - When designing objects, engineers consider the function, shape, and materials, among other things.  Today we looked at different shapes and materials.

Social Studies 

6 - Inquiry project.

7 - War of 1812 assignment.

Wednesday, November 25

 English

Book club tomorrow.  Bring completed Astrological Signs organizer, response questions, and your novel.  

Math

Nelson 7 textbook for practice.

5.1 - Area of a Parallelogram, #11-12

5.2 - Area of a Triangle, #3, 4, 6-8

Health

Submit Health infographics asap

Tuesday, November 24

 Reminders

Stonegate

Report card envelope

English

Read for at least 20 minutes tonight

Astrological Signs (see Google Classroom)

Math

Area of a Parallelogram.  Nelson textbook, 5.1.  p. 154 #8, 9, 11

Science

6 - The Four Forces of Flight (handout + Google Classroom)

7 - Shell, frame, and solid structures.  Internal and external forces (static/dynamic load, gravity).  Lab write up today (see Google Classroom)

Social Studies

Experiences of the black loyalists in early Canada (see Google Classroom)

Monday, November 16

 English

Vocabulary Power 4 (due Thursday)

Novel Study.  Book club meets Thursday.  Read assigned pages and answer response questions (in Google Classroom).

Math

Dividing whole numbers.  See Google Classroom.

Science

6 - Properties of Air (experiments in class)

7 - Forces.  Add definition for all bolded words in reading to vocabulary chart (see Google Classroom)

Social Studies

American Revolution.  In class discussion and short videos.  See Google Classroom.

Friday November 13

 Reading

Whose Phone Is This organizer (finish for Thursday; put in green reading folder).

Read novel study chapters.

Response questions will be posted to Google Classroom.

Math 

6 - Multiplying Whole Numbers (see Google Classroom)

7 - Subtracting Integers Using a Number Line (see Google Classroom)

Science

6 - We'll begin our Flight unit on Monday; presentations will continue on Tuesday

7 - Classifying Structures (see Google Classroom)

Social Studies

6 & 7 - Loyalist questions (see Google Classroom)

Health

Healthy Eating summative task (due November 24)