Wednesday 25 November 2020

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 24 November 2020

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 16 November 2020

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 13 November 2020

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)

 

Thursday 12 November 2020

Thursday, November 12

 English

Read for 20 minutes

Math

6 - Mental math multiplication and estimating to check products

7 - Subtracting integers.

Science

6 - Biodiversity presentations tomorrow

7 - Structures lesson with Ms. Taylor

Social Studies

6 & 7 - The Treaty of Niagara: Significance Then and Now

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Wednesday, November 11

English

Book club tomorrow.  Please have your chapters read and your reading responses ready.  Bring everything to your meeting.

Math

6 - p. 135 #1-5 (see Google Classroom for questions)

7 - p. 202-203 #5, 7-12

Science

6 - Presentations start Friday.

Social Studies

Finish work from today.  See Google Classroom.

Health

Healthy Eating infographics.  Due in 2 weeks,

Monday 9 November 2020

Monday, November 9

 English

Today we worked on paragraph edits and a new vocabulary list.

After we read aloud from The Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963, and discussed how setting was a factor in the main character's thoughts and actions.  Grade 6s are answering the same question this week for their book club novels.

Book club - weekly chapters, 2 chapter summaries and 2 response questions all due for Thursday morning.

Math

6 - Adding Whole Numbers

7 - Adding Integers, p. 194-195 #5, 8-10, 13, 14, 16, plus Mathletics.

Science

Projects are due tomorrow.  We'll start presentations this week.

Social Studies

Today we had an internet safety presentation in place of social studies.

Friday 6 November 2020

Friday, November 6

 English

Read novel study chapters for Thursday morning.

Complete 2 chapter summaries and  2 reading responses by Thursday morning.

Book club meeting #1 is on Thursday.

Math

Integers - p. 188 & 189, #7-11, 16, 18. 20 (work will be taken up and checked on Monday)

Science

Students have been hard at work on their Science projects.  Today we decided to use one more class period on Monday to finish up.  It's been nice seeing the students hard at work creating some amazing dioramas.  Looking for to seeing all the finished products!

Social Studies

7s - How did the French govern Quebec? (Nov 9)

Tuesday 3 November 2020

Tuesday, November 3

 English

Read for 20 minutes

Vocabulary Power (due Thursday)

Creative writing (due tomorrow morning)

Math

Mathletics

Data Literacy test on Thursday.  Study guide will be posted on Google Classroom this evening.

Social Studies

7s - Visual History Chart (Nov 4)

Science

Both - Project due Friday