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)

 

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, 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, 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, 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, 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

Thursday, October 29

English

Today we discussed the response questions for "Click Clack the Rattle Bag."

Creative writing task (due Tuesday, November 3rd)

Math

Today both grades were learning about spreadsheets (Google sheets).  They entered data, created formulas for calculating sums and mean (average).  Grade 7 Nelson textbook, p. 94-95, #6 only.

Science

Unit test (both grades) on Monday, November 2.

Summative project (both grades) due next Friday, November 6.

Social Studies/History

6 - Today we watched a video on the immigration experiences of Eastern European cultures to Canada.  Students took notes on an organizer.

7 - Finished watching a video on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Battle of Quebec).  Students answered some questions (see Google Classroom).

Wednesday, October 28

Reminders

Students are allowed to dress up on Friday, but they still need to wear a face mask.  

Friday afternoon we are going to watch a movie in class.  Students are allowed to bring a personal snack for the movie if they wish.  Unfortunately we cannot share snacks/treats this year. 

English

"Click Clack the Rattle Bag" response questions (due tomorrow)

"Click Clack the Rattle Bag" creative writing task (due Tuesday)

Math

Analyzing Misleading Graphs - Work is in Google Classroom.  #1-5, plus Reflect (due tomorrow)

Social Studies

6 - Immigration videos.  We'll continue watching the videos next time.

7 - The Seven Years War.  Students are watching "Battle for a Continent" video.  Go to Curio.ca and search for "Battle for a Continent."  Questions are in Google Classroom.  We'll finish tomorrow.

Science

Test (both grades) on Monday.  Study guide is in Google Classroom.  We'll do a whole class study session on Friday morning.

Project (both grades) are due next Friday.  See Google Classroom.

Tuesday, October 27

Reminders 

English

Vocabulary Power (due Thursday)

"Click Clack the Rattle Bag" response questions (due Thursday)

Math

Both grades discussed how to organize a set of data into a frequency table and stem-and-leaf plot.

6 - Histograms.  Questions in Google Classroom.  (Due tomorrow)

7 - Frequency Tables and Stem-and-Leaf Plots.  Questions in textbook, see Google Classroom.  (Due tomorrow)

Science

6 - Project (due Friday, November 6); Test (due Monday, November 2)

7 - Project (due Friday, November 6); Test (due Monday, November 2)

Social Studies

No work today.

Health

6 - Media Influences on Food Choices.  Students learned about strategies the media uses to influence food choices.  Students looked at food ads for examples of these strategies. 

7 - Eating Patterns and Health Issues.  Students gave presentations and took jot notes.

Monday, October 26

**All work is posted in Google Classroom. 

English

Vocabulary Power.  Handout.  Due Thursday.

Short story, "Click Clack the Rattle Bag." Listen to reading and discuss.

Math

Finding Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

6 - Mathfrog handout.  All questions.

7 - p. 104-105, #4ace, 5ace, 6ace, 10, 11, 13

Science

Both grades were assigned a summative project today.

Test study guide given out today.  Test scheduled for next Monday, November 2nd.  Information in Google Classroom.

Social Studies

6 - Immigration stories; push and pull factors.  Discussion.  Case study and organizer.

7 - Causes of the 7 Years War.  Mercantilism worksheet.  Discussion and organizer.

Friday, October 9th

 No homework.  Have a great weekend!

**I have moved to posting all work, digital or not, to Google Classroom.  If you are absent, check your Google Classroom to see what you missed.  

Wednesday, October 7

 English

Writing - Today's lesson was on adding dialogue to our personal narratives.  There is a handout in Google Classroom.

Reading - 

Math

6 - Writing Pattern Rules (see Google Classroom)

7 - p. 130-131, #4-6, 8, 11, 12

Science

6 - Plant Classification.  Work is in Google Classroom.

7 - Symbiosis.  Work is in Google Classroom.

Social Studies

6 - Canadian Identity.  We looked at the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and students made their own charter based on what they felt are the most important rights.  After students chose a prominent Canadian who was influential in fighting for rights and freedoms in Canada.

7 - What Shaped Canadien Culture?  See Google Classroom.

Thursday, October 1

Reminders

Terry Fox walk tomorrow.

Terry Fox fundraising information has been sent home via parent email.

English

Read for 30 minutes.

Reading Response letter due today.

Math

Grade 6 - Review handout.

Grade 7 - Ch. 1 Self-Test #8-11 plus p. 35 #7 and 11

**Both grades have a unit test tomorrow.  Test information is in Google Classroom.

Science

Grade 6 - Arthropods (Google Classroom)

Grade 7 - Consumers (Google Classroom)

Social Studies

Grade 6 - Vocabulary (Google Classroom)

Grade 7 - We'll finish up tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 30

 Reminders

Terry Fox Walk - Friday pm (students only)

English

Read for 30 minutes

Reading Response Letter due by end of day Thursday (you will have time in class tomorrow)

Math

Grade 6: p. 127-128 #1-3, 8, 10, Reflect

Grade 7: p. 33 #1-6

**Both grades have a test on Friday.  Information has been posted in each grade's Google Classroom.

Science

Grade 6: Compare and Contrast Animals Organizer, 3-Point Frame, and vocabulary (see Google Classroom)

Grade 7: Ecosystems questions and vocabulary (see Google Classroom)

Social Studies

Grade 6: Mapping Canada assignment (due tomorrow)

Grade 7: Sorting Important Events task (due tomorrow)