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Novel Approach

5/2/2022

Today we started our track and field unit. After this students worked on preparing their speeches for this Thursday and Friday. The afternoon was spent working on digital art and novel study. Keep working on reading your novels and completing the booklet which is due on Monday.

1.) ART/DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY:

Feel free to use any digital editing program or app to enhance colour, focus, blur things, etc to your mother's day art photo. Make sure you upload it to Teams and have a copy ready to airdrop to me in class tomorrow. Save a good copy somewhere for me.

2.) NOVEL APPROACH: Groups 2,3 meet tomorrow

3.) SPEECHES: Complete adding in where you will add: Emphasis, movement, eye contact and gestures

4.) POST A RESPONSE:

I am going to evaluate your most recent POST A RESPONSES.
If you are one of the students who have recently not been keeping up with your posts, it will be reflected on FreshGrade and your final report card. I will give you until tomorrow to get caught up. (POST/PEER FEEDBACK/EDIT/REVISE

VIDEO LINKS:
Track and Field Drills (ABC's)
3 Phases of sprinting

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Physical vs. Chemical Changes and Properties!

4/28/2022

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THE DAY:
1.) Speech Preparation
2.) Novel Study Book Clubs (Groups 5,6 meet tomorrow)
3.) MATH- Solving equations assignment
4.) SCIENCE: Chemistry

1.) POST A RESPONSE:

PAR Holiday
Complete any missed PAR's form this week.
Post a note here when you have complete ALL you PAR's from this week!!!

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Badminton ends!

4/27/2022

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Today was a great day at school. We started off the day with our final badminton play day. Mr. Fisher battled the students and had some really good matches. Students finish their self-assessments. Please see fresh grade for badminton evaluation's. Students also had a lesson on how to prepare for their speeches coming up next week. We worked together as a class on ways to make our speeches interesting and how catch peoples attention. I look forward to some people practising their speeches in front of the class this week.

IMPORTNAT:

Complete the CAMP SURVEY
Complete your post from yesterday if you have not done so yet. I will be checking the website tomorrow and handing out homework alerts to those who have not completed their work

1.) FRENCH: Numbers 1-79 QUIZ on Friday (click)

2.) NOVEL APPROACH: Book club meetings for Groups 2,3,4 Tomorrow!

3.) MATH: p399-400

Gr 6: #1,3,5,8
Gr 7: #1-8

4.) POST A RESPONSE:

LEARNING INTENTION: I can write a short paragraph about preparing for a speech
SUCCESS CRITERIA:

PARAGRAPH FORMAT (intro/body/conclusion)
BODY: Include 3-5 things that can help you with you speech
Briefly explain each thing and how it helps improve the speech.
GIVENS: Spelling, grammar, sentence structure, capitals, and punctuation.

CLICK HERE FOR THE HANDOUT FORM TODAY ON PREPARING FOR A SPEECH! (click)

HINT-Use the stuff we highlighted in the lesson today!

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Novel book clubs!

4/26/2022

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Today we welcomed a new student to Laurier. We always love new additions to our learning team. In the morning we had music and after music we worked on organizing our novel study groups. In the afternoon we were introduced to our next science unit on chemistry. We finished off the day working on digital art composition techniques.

1.) NOVEL APPROACH:

See the meeting schedule below and be ready and accountable to your group on your meeting day
Keep reading and working on the booklet each day so you do not get behind.

2.) SCIENCE:

Complete the periodic table handout

3.) ART: Digital Photography

Review today's lesson on leading lines
Review this video if you like. Click here to view lots of examples.
Continue taking photos and upload them to the Teams channel

4.)POST A RESPONSE:

Recently we have had two new members joined our learning Team!
Write a welcome message for Nicholas and Karo

LEARNING INTENTION: I can write a welcome message

Success Criteria

Include a greeting and closing: Dear, To, Cheers, Sincerely
Share at least 2 things you like and something you do not like (favourite book, movie, show, games sports etc.)
Share 2 thing about Laurier
Include an offer of how you can help if help is needed (Example: If you need any math help please come ask me)

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RAP finals tomorrow!

4/21/2022

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DRess up and be ready for your rap tomorrow!!!!

1.) MATH: p387-388

gr 6 #1-8
gr 7 #1-12

1.) POST A RESPONSE:

Describe how you will dress up for the performance tomorrow!

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NOvel Book clubs coming soon!

4/20/2022

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After badminton students worked on their digital photography skills and learned about forced perspective. Students had a chance to practice this technique and it was great to see all the creativity! After a hand on algebra lesson involving linear relations students were introduced to the various novels they will be reading and studying over the next two weeks. Mr. Hong and I are looking forward to students showing the ownership they have been developing over the past eight months.

1.) MATH: See assignment pic (right)

2.) NOVEL APPROACH: hand in novel choices

3.)LA: Print speech and have it with you tomorrow

4.) POST A RESPONSE:

What expression that can be used to determine the number of blocks in any given figure number.
Explain how you know what the coefficient is.
Explain do you know what the constant is.
How could you colour each figure to show the constant?

rap tomnorrow!

Tomorrow can be a practice rap session and the final performance will be friday!

Unless you want your final session to be tomorrow! BOth are okay!

don't forget to dress up!

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speeches

4/19/2022

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Speeches will start next week! Start practicing:)

Students are hard at work preparing for the Gr. 7 Speech Fest this Friday. Continue to work through learning the content of your speeches, eliminating supporting points to stay within the 3-5 minute time limit, and making it more engaging. Parents, if you have time, please have your child practice their speech in front of you and provide them with some feedback based on the criteria/rubric. They also have a speech guidebook they were given that has tips on how to make an engaging speech.

1.) MATH:

Complete Algebra handout
Mark p.380-382 (click for answers)

2.) RAP: Performance on Wednesday!

3.) SPEECH: Have printed copy for tomorrow

4.) POST A RESPONSE:

LEARNING INTENTION: I can write a short paragraph about 2 things I need to work on for my speech and how I can improve in these areas.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) PARAGRAPH FORMAT: intro/body/conclusion
2.) BODY: Include 2 points from the criteria that you need to work on
3.) GIVENS: Spelling, sentence structure, grammar, capitals, and punctuation.
4.) PEER-ASSESSMENT: Give one student feedback based on the above criteria.
5.) REVISION: Edit/revise based on peer feedback or a self-assessment

algebra learning intentions

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April 11th, 2022

4/11/2022

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1.)NOVEL APPROACH: Everything is due by Wednesday 9:00 am
2.) WORD WORK: 50 word Review Test Thursday. Complete the study chart
3.)POST A RESPONSE: Post a note here when your conference is complete.

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April 09th, 2022

4/9/2022

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**IMPORTANT- Please complete your home conference this weekend.

1.) Math: Algebra Worksheet

2.) Novel Approach: keep working on your file for response gift of words and thinking of the new questions.

3.) Post A Response:

Post a message here when you have completed your home conference letting me know who you did your home conference with. Have a great weekend see you on Monday.

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Home COnferences

4/7/2022

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Today's students spent a significant amount of time working on preparing their portfolios for their student led home conference this weekend. Students worked on selecting highlights of their learning and completing learning reflections to show growth. Students will be sharing highlights of their learning with their parents over the weekend.

1.) MATH-No homework

2.) NOVEL APPROACH- Keep working on the powerful response

3.) CAREER EDUCATION: Continue preparing for the student led conference by completing your learning reflections. Some time will be provided in the class tomorrow but it is never a bad idea to get ahead.

4.) POST A RESPONSE: PAR Holiday. Use this time to complete one of your learning reflections or prep for the conference.

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Badminton ends!

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RAP finals tomorrow!

DRess up and be ready for your rap tomorrow!!!!

NOvel Book clubs coming soon!

rap tomnorrow!

Tomorrow can be a practice rap session and the final performance will be friday!

Unless you want your final session to be tomorrow! BOth are okay!

don't forget to dress up!

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rap tomnorrow!

Tomorrow can be a practice rap session and the final performance will be friday!

Unless you want your final session to be tomorrow! BOth are okay!

don't forget to dress up!