This week, I will be heading up north with the Grade 8's to Muskoka Woods. The students will be taught by a 3 teachers - all are familiar with these staff. The Grade 7's from the 7/8 E-1 class will be joining us. Both EA's (Mrs. Abe and Ms. Church) will also be in the class for extra support.
Here is the work for the week:
Writing
Monday - On the Weekend... OR Family Day... OR Finish the starter from Friday: Imagine that you have a bottle hidden inside your bedroom closet. Inside the bottle live several tiny people. Write about your adventures with the little people.
Reading / Writing / Media
The students have been participating in DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) since the beginning of February. They will be completing a "Book Talk" assignment this week. Here is the outline:
Book Talk Poster
PURPOSE: To create your own cover for a book that you have selected to
read, identify key information
about the
book, make connections to what you are reading and prepare a book talk
presentation for the
class.
SUCCESS
CRITERIA:
I can make
an attractive
book cover.
I can
answer questions in complete sentences.
I can
answer questions using information from the book and from what I know to support
my answers.
I can
create a captivating presentation - the other students will want to read
the book I've chosen.
PROCEDURE:
• Choose a book and let your teacher
know your selection
• Read the
book
• Draw a
picture (your own creative cover, different than the original book cover, which
relates to the story). YOU MAY DO THIS
ON THE COMPUTER, BY HAND WITH DRAWING TOOLS OR BY MAKING A COLLAGE. Make
sure you have included the title, author, etc.
•Answer all
questions using information from the text to support your answers
Math
6/7 E-1 students will be continuing Symmetry work. Next week, we will become more familiar with the Cartesian Coordinate System.
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What is Coordinate Graphing? Coordinate graphing is a way to present information as a picture. By drawing a grid and assigning values to each spot on the grid, the relationships can be shown as points and lines. The grid, or graph is made up of two axis, an X axis that runs across the bottom and a Y axis that runs up and down. Each axis is numbered, usually starting at zero. This is what a coordinate graph (with one labeled point) looks like:  |
From: http://www.mathworksheetsworld.com/bytopic/coordinategraphing.html
The point A (on the graph above) is labeled by numbers (3,4). The first number in the brackets is always the "x" number. The second number in the brackets is always the "y" number.
Here are some at home activities to get you started:
3. Plotting coordinates
SOCIAL STUDIES / HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
The students are using newspapers to search for articles, advertising and any other Olympic "news" they can find! We are creating an Olympic Bulletin Board in our classroom! We are discussing the information in relation to our Gr. 6 Social Studies and Gr. 7 Geography curriculum. On Tuesday, we reviewed HOW to read and find information in the newspaper. Students are learning about the different sections and what the small print: "rest of story S1" actually means.
AT HOME WORK:
Please continue to visit online websites (i.e. cbc.ca) and discuss newspaper articles, etc. as a family to keep up to date with this world event
