Monday 23 March 2015

6/7/8 HSP Monday, March 23, 2015

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing March Break!

Here is our week:

ENGLISH:

1. "Pink Shirt Protest" - we will be reading an article about why the Day of Pink was initiated.

Tasks:

 - using note-taking strategies to help identify important information and begin to take notes in order to write independent Summaries of the article
- t-charts of what we can do to stop someone who is bullying and help someone who is being bullied
- MEDIA posters / announcements / advertisements to create and share a message about anti-bullying

2. Guided Reading - We are beginning new Guided  Reading groups this week

Group 1 - MN, NB, EK, NN, SK

Group 2 - YG, BL, SP, RJ

Groups will be working on vocabulary building, comprehension, making connections and extending their thinking.

MATH:

Students still needing to do their test: YG, MN, NB, BL, SK, RJ and SP

OPEN BOOK TEST WILL TAKE PLACE Wednesday, March 25th

Groups:

NN, EK - 7.3, 7.4, 7.5  - text and workbook (Nelson)

MN, NB, SK - Cartesian Coordinates, Flips, Slides and Turns

SP - Tranformational Geometry work

YG, BL, RJ - Flips, Slides, Turns and Symmetry


GEOGRAPHY - All students working on tasks using an Atlas