Friday, April 29, 2011

The Grade 7 and 8s continued to work on their symmetry masks.  I took several pictures, but forgot to bring the camera home.  I will have to upload those images on Monday.  Some students had some difficulty with the concept of symmetry, but many had a lot of fun creating the masks that we will be used for a future Drama based activity.

The class had Library today and used that time to begin researching their Health project.  I plan to assist the class in focusing their research questions so they can really be specific about the information they are looking for. 

We looked at two words today to prepare for an upcoming Drama exercise.  We looked at the words conscience and perspective.  Connections were made with the meaning of the words with the novel we are currently reading, Worse than Boys. 
We had a comprehensive desk clean up and spent some time preparing for the weekend.  The Grade 7s ended the day extending our discussion about Integers by looking at the temperature and working on the first page of a worksheet from the JUMP Math workbook.

Have an enjoyable weekend.

Homework

Grade 7 & 8 Reading  Response (to a newspaper, book, website, or magazine) to be completed in the green literacy duotang.

Grade 7:  p. 87 JUMP Math workbook page on integers

OUTSTANDING HW:  Needs to be completed by Chris, Jack, and Sophie.  This relates to the election question and voting (see blog from Tuesday, April 26).

  The lower portion of the memo needs to be signed, detached, and returned to class.