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one woman circus

1/30/2020

One woman circus (click to see)

Laurier students were lucky to have One Woman Circus here today. Students were challenged to concentrate and focus on several difficult tasks including juggling scarves, balls and sticks, spinning plates and balancing feathers. Throughout the lesson students received continuous DESCRIPTIVE FEEDBACK to help them improve. The big 6 principle of leaning will help get better at everything you do! Thank you to our amazing instructor Sand:)

VI**GRADE 7 CAMP: Please review the information sheet and bring back the volunteer sign up section of the form ASAP

1)MATH:

Show your parents your operations with decimals Evaluation on Fresh Grade
Complete marking your assignment form yesterday

2)SCIENCE:

Make sure you have completed your planning for your story board and you have it with you at at school tomorrow

3)POST A RESPONSE:

Today you got to experience some circus skills. Write a short letter to your circus instructor Sand explaining what you thought about todays activities.
Watch the video below for letter writing SUCCESS CRITERIA

You may want to include the following:

What parts you like best and why.
What was most difficult or easy for you and why.
Did you like it that it was difficult.
How you feel when you were successful.
How did you feel when you were not successful.
Did you give up. Why or why not.
Did you have fun.
Has your opinion of circus performers changed now that you have experienced some of the skills
Would you like to keep working on some of these skills
A thank you.

VIDEO LINK
Writing a letter

Natural selection and evolution

1/29/2020

After last weeks simulation and video on Natural Selection studnets had gained some needed background knowledge of these concepts. This week they were introduced to a story board project where they will show how these concepts work in nature. We also started the next math unit on rate, ratios and percent.

MATH: We started the next unit of rate, ratio and percent click here for the unit LEARNING INTENTIONS

Complete MF p 156-157 (click)

SCIENCE:

Story board plan due by tomorrow at 3:00pm (You will have 1 period to work on it tomorrow.

WORD WORK:

Complete the work analysis (Test next Tuesday) CLICK here for the Words

POST A RESPONSE:

Today in the read aloud Touching Spirit Bear Garvey tries to teach Cole a lesson using hot dogs. Explain what Garvey means in the following quotes. What is he trying to tell Cole?
Copy and paste the quote and then add your explanation and thinking after it and then answer the final Question.

Quote 1: "That hot dog did exactly what you asked it to do. You asked it to feed you, and it fed you. No more, no less."

Quote 2: "The whole world is a hot dog."

Question: What message is Garvey trying to teach Cole?

VIDEO LINKS:
38 Magical Pastel Art Techniques

ART techniques!

1/28/2020

1)WORD WORK: Pre test will be tomorrow with the unit text next Tuesday after skiing

2) ART: Oil pastel nature scene final composition die Friday

3) POST A RESPONSE:

For the final oil pastel nature scene you need to research and use a new art technique in your work. For your PAR today do an inquiry of different art techniques and choose one you would like to try in this project.
Identify and explain the technique here on the PAR.
See the videos below below for INSPIRATION!

MONDAY - SKI DAY (NOTE: SLIGHT CHANGE IN TIMES)

1/24/2020

IMPORTANT:

ARRIVE IN GYM ON MONDAY: 7:40am - 7:50am
DEPART LAURIER: As parents and students arrive, we will let you head to the mountain with your parent volunteer. We will start leaving Laurier at 8:00am. ***Note some students were moved by Mr. Hong/Mr. Fisher. Check the list on Monday morning.
ARRIVE AT SEYMOUR MOUNTAIN: ~9:15am -9:30am
SKI SCHOOL START TIME: 10:00AM-11:30am
LUNCH: 11:30am - 12:15pm
AFTERNOON LESSON: 12:15pm - 2:45pm

REVIEW WITH PARENTS:

Alpine Responsibility Code (acknowledgement, what to wear/bring, etc)
Arrival procedures, lesson tags, and rental equipment (CLICK HERE) ---> [1] [2]
Pre-trip meeting information (reminders, equipment and clothing, lesson tags)

1.) LA:

Word work quiz on Tuesday.
Click here for practice spelling tests and cue cards.

2.) MATH:

Party Planning assignment due on Tuesday.
Unit test on Wed.

3.) POST A RESPONSE:

Post a message here indicating you and your parents have reviewed all of the above information and the links provided. THIS IS FOR YOUR BENEFIT AND SAFETY!
Post any last minute questions you have about SKI SCHOOL!

VIDEO LINK:
Seymour Safety Video

January 23rd, 2020

1/23/2020

We just have a few more days until we go skiing! We hope you are all excited to participate! Our first session will be this Monday! Read the IMPORTANT information below carefully. Click here to select your food for each of the ski school days.

IMPORTANT:

Driver volunteer forms (RETURN TOMORROW if you haven't already done so - FOR PARENT VOLUNTEERS)

1)MATH: Operations with integers

2) POST A RESPONSE:

Today, you worked on your final reading strategy lesson with the poem, "The Giving Tree."
You completed your visible thinking and started your pre-assessment activity for your big ideas (powerful responses)
Write a paragraph explaining what you think the big idea of the poem is.

   SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) Paragraph format (intro, body, and conclusion)
2.) Givens (spelling, capitals, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation)
3.) States the big idea
4.) Provides evidence from the poem/story that supports the big idea
5.) Explains what the character has learned.
6.) Gives thoughts about the big idea.
7.)  Explains why you have this thought as your big idea.
8.) Check your paragraph to make sure you have included everything listed in the above criteria
  and post a message stating if you have met the criteria. If not, edit/revise your original post.

SKILLS, skills, NBA

1/22/2020

Today students worked hard on completing the culminating math activity on decimals and on completing their winter scene pastel arts project. We also had an extra PE period where we worked specifically on improving our shooting technique in basketball. We learned that people need to practice skills correctly an in order to master them and that getting specific FEEDBACK and applying it right away is very important. By practicing shooting a basketball with 1 hand instead of two and allaying FEEDBACK we saw many student improve very quickly. NBA & WNBA watch out!

1) MATH: Chapter task of organizing the team party due tomorrow am

2) ART: Draft 1 due tomorrow by 3 pm

3) MATH TEST: Friday (estimating and calculating with all 4 operations using decimals)

4) WORD WORK TEST: Monday

5) POST A RESPONSE:

Think of all the skills you needed to use to complete the MATH Activity of planning a team party
Copy and paste the example list below and then continue adding to it to include ALL the skills you used to complete this activity. Be sure to include how the skill helped you be successful.

EXAMPLE:

The Skills I used for this MATH project were:

Reading: This helped me understand the instructions of the activity
Speaking: I was able to ask for help and communicate with my teacher and group members
Knowing how to use a calculator: I was able to check my answers

Natural selection

1/21/2020

TO BE UPDATED...

WORD WORK Unit 15 (click)

1) MATH:

Complete page 1 of the chapter TASK
Test on operations with decimals on Friday (calculating and estimating)

2) POST A RESPONSE:

Explain what happened to the different species through the three generations in the natural selection simulation today.

Answer the following questions in your response:

Why did some species survive and other die?
What happened to the chopsticks? Why?
Which was the most successful? Why?
How do simulations help us better understand what is happening in the world around us?
Why are simulations like this helpful?

VIDEO LINK
NATURAL SELECTION

Pro d

1/20/2020

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! See you tomorrow for another great week of learning!

1)MATH: p. 23 (click) Due tomorrow

2)PAR HOLIDAY:

ALL BASKETBALL PLAYERS:

COPY OUT THE OFFENCE POSTED BELOW ONTO PAPER AND REVIEW IT 10 TIMES FOM EVERY POSITION. BRING THE PAPER TO ME TOMORROW!

Boys BASKETBALL GAMES THIS WEEK

Girls BASKETBALL GAMES THIS WEEK

The Offence

long division

1/16/2020

What a great winter day. We had a reading strategy test today and then worked on our basketball skills in PE. After recess we worked on our division skills. Tomorrow we will add in decimals to our division questions. In the afternoon we finished getting organized for the skiing trip and had music.

IMPORTANT- Please bring in all forms and pay all fees for the circus and for skiing.

1)Alphabiography: Due Friday by 3pm

2) Math: Division handout due tomorrow

3) Post A Response:

Estimate the answers to the following questions.
Use words and numbers to show/explain how you estimated

A) 0.6 + 3.6=
B) 4.04 + 2.8 =
C) 6.786 - 4.17=
D) 1.9 - 0.6 =
E) 1.3. x 5.6 =
F) 0.4 x 20.45 =
G) 63 divided by 5 =
H) 123 divided by 9 =

Amazing Authors!

1/14/2020

IMPORTANT- Bring in all ski forms and pay the fee.

1)POST A RESPONSE:

To prepare yourself for tomorrows math lesson on dividing decimals find the quotients of the equations below and then answer the questions below. (You may use a calculator)

A) 25 divided by 5 =
B) 250 divided by 50 =
C) 2500 divided by 500 =
D) 2.5 divided by 0.5 =
E) 0.25 divided by 0.05 =
F) 0.025 divided by .005 =

What is happening here? What do you notice? Why?
How might this help you in getting ready to divide decimals?

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