Happy SAD Day and Happy Halloween

We hope you had a great day Thursday : ) We appreciate the effort you all put into your school work and are so proud of how well you are doing!

Have a wonderful Halloween if you are participating.....please be safe and have fun!!!

See you Monday!

Humanities

Tuesday, October 27

Yesterday we had a great time at VIVO!!


Today we:
- read our independent novels

- Creative Writing: keep working on it please! Everyone needs to have 3 pages double spaced. This will be handed in next week.

- Fairy Tale #2: should be planned and started. This is homework. We really would like students to be finished their second fairy tale by Thursday and have it handed in.

- we learned and reviewed about making SUPER SWAG Sentences and reviewed simple, compound and complex sentence structures. This will translate into better writing!!!


Tomorrow we will look at parts of sentences and sentence structure, as well as finishing up or editing fairy tale #2.

Math & Science update

Just a friendly reminder that Ms. Noullett & I would like to collect your Math & Science journals tomorrow.  Firstly, it is our party night together!  Secondly, we would love to share your journals with your adults at conferences.

Please ensure that you have your new journal for Fractions for tomorrow.

Please bring in your $5 for your new Science visual journal...thank you so much.

Today

Awesome job at VIVO today : ) You all represented HDC so well and we are very proud. Such a fun day! Hope you get some rest today.....especially those who took that kickboxing class!!

BEDMAS Assessment tomorrow!

Make sure to study in your journals tonight for your BEDMAS assessment. Go over notes, create questions, test yourself and your adults, and come prepared tomorrow.

Remember to bring a calculator to class tomorrow!

We Scare Hunger

Students can trick-or-treat for non-perishable food items.

They can get more information from Room 12 .

Every item will go to Calgary's food bank.

Ma/Sci

Wow...amazing work in your stations today!!

You will have period 1 to finish up your stations and put the finishing touches on your journals.  Remember, both your Math & Science journals are coming in for assessment tomorrow at the end of class.

Check previous blog posts for dates & titles & assignment details.

Humanities - Monday

Today we reviewed story structure and tomorrow we will have a check-in assessment.

We also watched Partly Cloudy and students completed a journal page outlining the story's plot and all the elements within the plot, along with some visuals to support their understanding of the story. This is HOMEWORK if not completed.

The purpose of this was to revisit the important aspects of story structure so that when students complete their next Fairy Tale Station they will be sure to include all the elements, especially conflict and falling action (which are missing from many of the first fairy tale stations handed in last week)

Also, students are to have their Japan title page for their scrapbooks completed today, titled:
MY JOURNEY THROUGH JAPAN.

• The journal page must have the word JAPAN and at least 3 images that reflect Japan (based upon what they have learned from Chapter 12: Land of the Rising Sun and the geography research task)

Tomorrow students will begin their Scrapbook Entry #1 for their journey through Japan.

Science

Great work on your solubility stations yesterday.  Please ensure that you have all of this great work completed, organized, ready for assessment on Tuesday.  Your Science journals are coming in on Tuesday for assessment.  Thanks!!

I have posted a copy of the Solubility Stations in our D2L shell under content Science Mix & Flow.

Enjoy your weekend.

Hum

1. Everyone was supposed to hand in a completed fairy tale station, with the peer review from yesterday. This is to be in journals. These will be assessed over the weekend!!

2. We reviewed Japan's geography and how it connects to Japanese worldview.
HOMEWORK: read Chapter 12 of the textbook

3. D.I.R.T response - was to be completed today in journals, or in google docs and printed off and glued into journals
- Novel Title:
- Author name:
- How long have you been reading this novel?
- How far along in the book are you? (chapter 12 out of 28 / page 112 out of 198)
- THEME: What is the underlying message of the book you are reading? AND What evidence from the novel gives you clues to its theme/message?

HOMEROOM ANNOUNCEMENT

PLEASE bring your field trip forms back tomorrow signed!!! Mr. Hall would REALLY appreciate getting them tomorrow : ) If you need another form please email me (Ms. Noullett) and I will send you a new form - or give you one tomorrow.

Thank you so much - this is going to be such a fun day! Looking forward to it!

HUM

One of your fairy tale tasks is due tomorrow. Please have it printed and ready to hand in. Great job today 804!! : )

Math

Good job with BEDMAS today : )

Make sure you complete the worksheet you received today. Also, we are going to SHAKE your journals tomorrow. That means make sure everything is pasted in your journal and completed.

Happy Wednesday!

Today

We had some pretty intense but realistic conversations in class today. We are looking forward to seeing more effort in the classroom and at home regarding homework completion and extra practice.

Math/Sci

Please practice 10 multiplying and dividing integer questions at home. The link "Grade Level Practice" is on the side of the blog and you can find appropriate questions there.

Please complete your Solubility journal page for tomorrow.

Humanities

Your first Japan chart should be done. You should be halfway through your other chart (or fill in the blanks). If you aren't I would catch up at home!


Have a great night! If you have any questions feel free to send any of us an email : )

Have a fantastic weekend! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend and are thankful everyday to have you in our class. You have no homework this weekend. Enjoy and see you Tuesday.

**Remember: you do NOT have school tomorrow**

Math check in

Remember you have a quiz tomorrow on multiplying & dividing integers.  You will need your journal, red & blue colours, a calculator for the quiz.

Please ensure that your journals are pepped up and complete as you can use them as a resource during the quiz tomorrow.

Math

Please finish up your integer worksheet, and make sure your station work is complete. You have a QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY that will assess you on both multiplying and dividing integers. It would be a good idea to go over these concepts in your journal, and complete extra practice at home each night (as you should be doing anyways for Math). :)

Here is the worksheet:

 

Hum - Map of Japan

Finish your map of Japan for tomorrow and have it pasted into your journals.

Humanities - Friday, October 2

Today all D.I.R.T responses were to be handed in (in journals) or shared via Google Docs.

Please be sure that Ms. Noullett and I have your D.I.R.T. work before Saturday morning.

Remember that journals are to be handed in every Friday so teachers can do a check-in.

5 Story Elements

....this was started on Wednesday by looking at Brothers' Grimm and Politically Correct Fairy Tales

- revisit the email/Doc that Ms. Noullett shared/sent to all of you and pep up the chart(s)

- please make sure your chart for the story you picked has been shared

(jepeterson@educbe.ca AND emnoullett@educbe.ca)

HUM - D.I.R.T. Homework

Today in Humanities we worked on a Daily Independent Reading Task (almost 2 full periods of time)

Students had to choose 1 of 4 tasks...
A. General reading Log Prompts
B. Personal Connections
C. Picturing Textual Details
D. Alternate Book Cover

** students have copies of each task and need to aim for the "I'm there now" section which represents excellent work for this task **

Tomorrow - students will have a bit of time to print and pep up this task, but all work and journals will be handed in on Friday.

On Monday, students will begin our Japan unit and a Fairy Tale unit.

Math Journal

Here is a picture of my Math journal.....pep yours up if you missed something or didn't finish! Try a couple of your own division questions....switch it up and test yourself. If you want you go online to Multiplication/Division and do some rapid practice. Math is ALL about practice. Good work today..... the journals looked much better :)

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