Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The morning began with snack and quiet reading.  Since the start of Term 1 (and throughout my classroom years of teaching) this has been are routine in the morning.  As part of the Reading program, the time in the morning is worth a small part of the final grade in the strand of Reading.  I encourage the students to read either from the newspaper, a magazine, a book or material in the classroom or from home.

A group of boys were out at the social skills support group this morning.  The balance of the class prepared for our Drama (improvisation) activity.  This was a continuation from yesterday's activity.  Here are some of the photos from the session:

When the Grade 8s were at Music, the 7s continued learning about place and location in Geography.  To be exact, they were learning about absolute location by locating points on a map of the African continent.  To reinforce some of the concepts learned in class, homework was given out.  The concepts will be reviewed, once again so the students are not confused.  Learning about the differences with the different hemispheres can be challenging. 

Homework:  Grade 7s have a map of the United States and the African continent.  Using the information they learned about latitude and longitude, they had to locate cities close to the following coordinates:
a) 20 degrees South and 46 degrees East       b) 39 degrees North and 10 degrees West
Additionally, they are to report on the coordinates of these two cities:
a) Havana, Cuba  b) Los Angeles, California