Friday, April 15, 2011

Today we continued to talk about the importance of Pink Day and why bullying is a problem that everyone has a responsibility to confront and resist.  I spent some time commenting to the class about their journal entries about the significance of Pink Day and how it was important to not be a bystander when bullying is taking place.

We began to preview a documentary created by 18 year old, Alex Vander Vlugt.  It is called Speak Out and can be found, along with some other information on Pink Day, on the following link:  http://www.pinkshirtday.ca/2011/04/12/speak-out-the-documentary-tackles-bullying-issue/
We will watch this film and then have a class discussion about the content of the film.

The Grade 8 students had a test on the addition and subtraction of Integers and will be moving on to multiplying and dividing them by next week.  The students are pleased and eager to know that this work is "at" Grade level and they are having success at completing and understanding it.

The Grade 7 students are preparing for a quiz on Monday and mapping points on a coordinate grid.  The mapping of points on a 4 coordinate grid is one of the expectations of the Grade 7 Geometry Math program and the students are very excited to know they are doing this.

At the end of  the day the students cleaned up their desks and participated in a 20 minute community clean up.  Once I figure out how to post photos, I will upload some images from the very windy, cold, but productive outing.

HOMEWORK
Grade 7 Coordinate Plane quiz (plotting points on a graph) based on classwork and homework