I just wanted to take a moment to wish all of our families a very safe, happy and healthy Holiday! It is an absolute pleasure working with you and your children :)
Here is our week at a glance. Included are some holiday homework links to keep the students busy :) There are both Printable and Online activities. Should you need to print at school prior to the holidays, please ask your child to talk with me about logging on to the blog in class and printing to our classroom printer. All requests will be accommodated!
English - Students are finishing our first round of Grammar work. We have studied:
Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Writing Complete Sentences
Online Activity - Verbs: Tutorial, Activities and Game
Online Activity - Verbs: Tutorial, Activities and Game
History / Social Studies
Grade 6 - Students should be finished Map of Syria and surrounding countries.
Work to do: Please take opportunities to read the world news in either newspaper or on an online source to find out what is happening now in that part of the world.
Questions to ask:
Has the conflict continued? Worsened? Resolved?
Who is now in power?
What happened to all of the people displaced earlier in the year?
Grade 7 - Students completed their Chapter 2 Test. When we return to school in January, the Grade 7's will look at the final years of New France. You can begin to read online about the following topics:
The Great Peace of Montreal, 1701
The Loss of Acadia
The Seven Year's War, 1756-1763
Some excellent sources for personal, at-home reading / viewing include:
You Tube Videos: At school, we use Canada: A People's History. These can be found on You Tube at the following link:
Canada A People's History Episode 2 This is where the Grade 7 History text begins. It is an excellent series - a very visual presentation of our Text. From there, I would suggest Episode 3 - Claiming the Wilderness and Episode 4 - Battle for a Continent. I would not view past this, as the students will be unfamiliar with the events.
PLEASE NOTE: We will be going on and the role the Gibson Family played in the events. More details to follow!
Math - we are working on ELAPSED TIME. Students create timelines and are becoming more proficient every day. Homework can be found here:
Elapsed Time Please go to Elapsed Time section. There are several questions that would benefit students to complete found in the 5 minute intervals and 15 minute intervals for Max. 5 hours. There are more challenging questions for the students to complete found in the 5 minute intervals and 15 minute intervals for Max. 24 hours section.
*It is HIGHLY recommended that the students draw timelines on a separate page, as we did in class, to show their work for the questions found here.
