Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I have a number of photos from our Field Trip to the TSO yesterday.  It was a very nice day and we walked back from King and University all the way to AMG!  We were in class very little (there was a Health period) and spent most of the day travelling and enjoying the performance.

There was a line in the production yesterday (also in the NFB film we watched) where the mother made an interesting comment and I decided to use it as a journal prompt.  Here it is:

We also set up our gameboards for Battleship.  This is a Mathematical take on a classic game that uses the idea of coordinates to sink the ships of an opposing player.  Playing this game will assist the students in preparing to do transformations for Geometry on a much larger grid.

 

 

After watching the "retro" version of the ad for the game (via Youtube), I modelled how each student should set up his or her grid to play.  They will play with a partner to sink the ships!

In the afternoon, we looked at the Health Project.  I have a sample set of paragraphs I did around the topic of Cocaine.  Emphasis was placed around the differences between topic and concluding sentences and the importance of having supporting details.  Here is the sample: