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Happy Spring Break!

3/16/2018

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1) Reminders:

Be Supportive
Be Open Minded
Be Awesome
Be Respectful
Have fun
Dramatic Reading Presentations: April 3rd
Come to school prepared to present

2)Post A Response:

Throughout spring break try and post fun things you do, interesting thing you see or funny or interesting things that happen
Add to your list throughout the break as we will use this list for a fun project when we come back to school!
Have a fantastic break!!!!!

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Today we printed our draft responses and spent some time peer editing. Students traded papers and read their peers work looking for the required criteria. After, they met and discussed what they had found and what they could do to improve. We also wrote our math evaluation on integers and uploaded our finished science inquiry to fresh grade. Parents be sure to check out the students inquiry journals.

1) Reminders:

FINE ARTS: Bodies in motion due tomorrow
LA: Responses due tomorrow (No need to print. I will read the final repsponse on one note)
FOOD: don't forget your contribution and your bowl, fork and cup!

2) Post A Response:

Try to solve the following puzzles
Explain your solutions
Reply to another post agreeing or disagreeing

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Book Response Draft

3/14/2018

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We reviewed the criteria for a powerful response and worked on our drafts. Tomorrow we will share our drafts with a classmate to get some feedback to help us improve our writing. Be sure to check your drafts against the criteria to make sure you have included what is required. Students also got back their science evaluations. As a class we went thought the test and made the needed corrections. A summative evaluation for this section of the unit will be uploaded to Fresh Grade by Friday.

1) Reminders:

Math: Integers party tomorrow
LA: Finish response draft ( printed by recess tomorrow)
Spring Break Party Potluck (sign up here)
Please check yesterdays PAR as Ms. Golby replied to many of your posts
FRIDAY: final dramatic reding presentation so choose a good selection (approx 1min)

2) Post A Response:

What part of the writing process is a strength for you?
What part of the writing process is a stretch?
What can you do to help capitalize on your writing strength and improve on you stretch?

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Residential School

3/13/2018

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In the morning we read a book called, I Am Not A Number. It shared the story of a First Nations girl in Canada who was taken from her family and sent to a residential school. It was shocking to hear about how cruel people can be. Although it is hard to hear these stories it is important to learn about the past so that as move forward we can learn form the mistakes that have been made. After lunch, we introduced the criteria for a powerful response and showed the students an example of the process and a final written piece. Students then had some time to get started on their response to the book they have been working on. In the afternoon, we had our science evaluation and reviewed order of operations in math.

1) Reminders & Homework

Sign up for the potluck (see yesterday post)
Math party Thursday
Finish the rough draft/plan of your powerful response by using the template to organize your thinking for each section.

2) Post A Response:

Post several things that you learned from listening to the book, I Am Not A Number.
What was the most shocking?
Post your thoughts on the idea of reconciliation (apologizing / trying to restore) with First Nations People
Why is it important?
Who is it important to? Why?
Reply to another persons post

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The Sun is Back!

3/12/2018

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We played a great game of stones in the sun today with Division 2. We added in some new elements to keep the game evolving and the players active and on their toes. After recess, we finished up our book club think sheets. Students finished their discussions around the thinking and learning questions and then worked on filling out the Big Idea graphic organizer where they have to synthesize and evaluate their understanding of the book. Students will use this organizer to help them develop a powerful response to the book. In the afternoon, we had music and worked on finding evidence for the competencies we have been workington in our science inquiry.

1) Reminders:

Science Party tomorrow
Ask any questions you have about science here tonight. I will check the blog throughout the evening!
Math Party Thursday: integers
Potluck Party Friday (sign up)

2) Post A Response:

We use The Order Of Operations to solve math problems with multiple operations
Use the order of operations to solve the following questions below.
Show each step in your solution!

Example

Three Questions:

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Fitness Friday

3/9/2018

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Langara Running Trail

Today, we started the day off with Fitness Friday and we followed it up with a run/walk around the Langara golf course. The photo to the left shows our exact route. Our route was 2.8km in length and it took us approximately 29 minutes and 45 seconds to complete. Or average pace was 10:31 seconds per kilometre. Our average speed was 5.7 km an hour and our maximum speed was 11.5 km an hour. It was nice to see the weather improve today. We haven't seen sun like this in a very long time. With the weather improving, we are looking forward to spending more time outdoors to work on our physical health.

IMPORTANT HANDOUT*
(click here)

1.) Spring Break Pot Luck Lunch Party:

We will have a spring break potluck party next Friday
Each student must contribute something (try to make it yourself)
Lets make this our best lunch party yet! (CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!)

2.) ART:

People in motion art due next Friday

3.) MATH: 

Integers Evaluation Next week (Wednesday or Thursday)
This video will help you with 6.6: Subtracting with integer chips
This video will help you with 6.7: Subtracting with number lines

4.) LANGUAGE ARTS/NOVEL APPROACH: (...to be updated soon)

Complete the second Book Club Blog Post by clicking here. If you haven't completed the first one, be sure to do that. It should be updated by Friday evening some time.
Complete all gift of words and thinking and learning questions.
Be prepared for your second book club discussion on Monday. Click here to view the C-Chart we co-created in class today.

5.) SCIENCE:

Test on Tuesday
Click here to review all learning intentions for Electricity and Magnetism. We will be looking for evidence of the competencies in our Inquiry Journals on Monday and having test of the content on Tuesday. Collect any questions you have and we can discuss them on Monday before the test.

6.) POST A RESPONSE:

Post your finished book review of The Worst Class trip Ever
Comment on another students review
This Book Review will be uploaded as an assessment on Fresh Grade so hand in your best work!
Due Monday @ 9:00am

Eric & Andrew

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Student Led Conferences Day 2

3/8/2018

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Sharing Learning Highlights!

Today Ms. Altman gave us a preview of some great reads at the book fair, before we got back into out book cubs to finish up out gift of words and thinking and leaning questions. Tomorrow students will go over their work and add to each others thinking to extend their leaning. After recess, we finished up the class read-a-loud and Wyatt became the hero and even got Susana to go to the prom with him! Way to go Wyatt! What happened to Cameron and Matt? Do you think they got dates to the prom?

1)Reminders & Homework:

LA: Finish the book club think sheets for tomorrow
Math: multiplying and dividing sheets (excluding order or operations and exponent questions)

2) Post A Response:

You must write a book review of the class read-a-loud: The Worst Field Trip Ever
Use this guide to help you plan your review: You must include some writing and thinking from each section in the guide below. You do not need to use all the questions. Choose some questions form each section that fit this novel.
In todays post all you have to do is plan your review: YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE IT today!
In the plan, post what questions you will answer and make few notes about what you may talk about. Your plan should include all sections in the guide with some notes on each section.
The final review will be the Friday PAR and will be used as an assessment on Fresh Grade
You will have the weekend to work on it. The final review will be due Monday.

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Student Led Conferences

3/7/2018

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Today in PE we played a big game of stones with division 2. It was great to see the game develop as students started to use some strategy to infiltrate each others bases to capture their stones. In the afternoon, we finished up some math work on multiplying and dividing decimals, finished preparing for the conferences and worked on our bodies in motion art. Students were dismissed at 2 pm for conferences. Thank you all for the great conferences. Today everyone did a fantastic job sharing their learning.

1) Reminders:

Early dismissal tomorrow at 2pm
Book club homework (click here)

2) Post A Response:

Write a paragraph explaining why you think it is important to share your learning with your parents. In you paragraph take two perspectives. Your perspective and your parents perspective. Why is it important to you? Why is it important to your parents?
Include a topic sentence and supporting details from each perspective: Example topic sentence: Student led conferences are important to people for different reasons.

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Building Motors

3/6/2018

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Today we carried on with our book clubs, learned the rules for multiplying and dividing integers and built motors in science. Isn't it amazing how electricity and magnetism work together to create and electric motor.

1) Reminders:

Conferences tomorrow
Early dismissal tomorrow at 2pm

2) Post A Response:

List 5 places electric motors are used in the world around you

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Book Clubs

3/5/2018

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Bookclub groups recording visible thinking!

Today we stared our book clubs where we teamed up with Division 2 to read a short story together and record our thinking to make it visible. Thus the term VISIBLE THINKING! Students used all the reading strategies they have been working on to share their thinking. After the lesson Mr. Hong and I were very impressed with the conversations that were taking place throughout the classrooms. Outstanding work Grade 7's! Tomorrow we will finish the modeling lesson with the book "When I was Eight," and we will introduce the first activity that goes along with the book club, Gift Of Words!

1) Reminders:

Sign up for a conference (click here)
Last chance to bring in February home reading calendars!

2) Post A Response:

The 6 work tags we used to prepare for the conferences are: Perseverance, Pride, Improvement, Process, Favourite, Invisible Pride
What will you be sharing for each tag?
Why did you choose this piece to share?