This Week:
- Students began to explore career options with online research
- Students wrote a quiz on vocabulary related to Ancient Greece
- Students completed their timeline projects for Ancient Greece
- Students used digital resources to build circuits and test materials for conductibility
- Students learned about hidden messages and stereotypes in media and advertising
- Students wrote a quiz on algebraic equations
- We went on a field trip to EMCS to see the play Grease.
Next Week:
- Students will begin a group project researching an ancient civilization we haven't yet studied in class.
- Students will learn about target-specific advertising and begin to create their own advertisements.
- Students will learn about Ohm's Law and how it relates to voltage, resistance, and current
- Students will learn the irregular verbs pouvoir and vouloir in French
This Week:
- Students completed their poetry portfolio projects.
- Students learned vocabulary about current electricity and learned about how electricity is measured.
- Students began a French unit on hobbies and pastimes.
- Students began a unit in math on algebraic equations.
Next Week:
- Students will continue to work on one-step and two-step algebraic equations.
- Students will begin a unit on Media Literacy.
- Students will interview a partner in French about their hobbies and write a paragraph describing their partner.
- Students will begin a timeline project for Ancient Greece.
- We will participate in a traditional pit cook on Tuesday for the full day. Activities will include mural making, traditional Aboriginal dancing, drumming, and more.
This Week:
- Students began putting together their final poetry portfolios. They are choosing 6 of the 12 poems we wrote in class, and 2 of the 4 poetry responses, then they will create good copies and hand in their final portfolio. Portfolios are due on Friday, May 25.
- We worked with creating and interpreting circle graphs, and students wrote a circle graph quiz today.
- Students learned how to conjugate the verb "faire" in French.
- Students learned about Alexander the Great and wrote opinion paragraphs to declare whether or not he deserved his title.
- We had a presentation from Skills Canada where the students learned about opportunities they can take in high school if they choose to work in the trades and technology field. They also got to use pictures, schematics, and instructions to build an electrical circuit and a plumbing conduit.
Next Week:
- Monday is Victoria Day - no school!
- We will learn some vocabulary for current electricity and will read about how electricity is measured
- Students will continue to create good copies of their poetry portfolios
- We will practice algebraic thinking involving unknown numbers
- Students will begin to learn new vocabulary about hobbies and pastimes in French
This Week:
- Students wrote limericks and analysed song lyrics in English
- Students presented their Sports Dialogues in French
- Students read about different sources of electricity in Science
- Students read about Alexander the Great's accomplishments and made judgments about whether or not he is worthy of his title in Social Studies
- Students reviewed how to solve proportional relationships in Math, and applied that knowledge to construct circle graphs
Next Week:
- Students will write diamante poems and analyse slam poetry
- Students will learn current electricity vocabulary
- Students will continue to create and analyse circle graphs
- We will have our final visit from Carolyn for our Junior Achievement program
- We will have a presentation on Tuesday morning from Skills Canada and students will have the opportunity to try a hands-on building project
- Students will complete a quiz in French on sports vocabulary and reading comprehension
This Week:
- Students wrote a quiz on measures of variation (median, interquartile range, outliers, etc.)
- Students read and responded to sonnets and read poems with differing perspectives
- Students learned about two types of electricity: static and current
- Students wrote sentences in French using the regular verbs we've learned
- Students held their freezie sale, the action part of their Junior Achievement project.
Next Week:
- We will look at ways to visually plot data in math
- Students will write sonnets and tanka poems
- Students will look at the sources of electricity in our world
- Students will begin to learn about Ancient Greek philosophers
- Students will create French dialogues about their sports preferences
- Friday is the last Pro-D Day of this school year
This Week:
- We invited Carolyn Barter into our class as a Junior Achievement volunteer. She is teaching the class how to run a business.
- Students completed a math quiz on Mean, Median, Mode, and Range.
- Students completed a stations lab in Social Studies, looking at the Geography, Economy, religion, Achievements, Government, and Social Structure of Ancient Greece.
- Students wrote a test on Regular Verbs in French.
- Students practiced writing poetry in the style of Blackout Poems, Haikus, and Cinquains.
Next Week:
- Students will practice measures of variation in Math.
- Students will analyse poetic works.
- Students will have their 3rd Junior Achievement lesson and hold their Freezie sale on Friday.
- Students will learn about different sources of electricity.
