Weekly Update October 5-8 Important Dates: Today: Explorer Project Applications DUETues Oct 6: Vocabulary Quiz Wed Oct 7: Trip to Glenbow Museum (Still looking for volunteers!) Permission forms and parent letter available on the website. Friday Oct 9: PD Day, No school. Math/Science: - Math/Science: -We have started reviewing fractions. We have talked about reducing fractions, using equivalent fractions, and are now discussing how to add and subtract fractions. The next POW will deal with adding and subtracting fractions. Mr. Cooper (student teacher) will start teaching 7.3 math this week and will continue until early December. He will be covering the following topics: Adding and Subtracting fractions, divisibility rules, factors and multiples, solving problems involving decimals and percents.-The 7.4 class will continue to be taught by Mrs. Nelson and will cover the same concepts as the 7.3 class. Some of the activities that will be included will likely be a divisibility game, and some sort of mini-project about adding fractions. There will also be some practice sheets to review the material that was covered. -In science, we have started our project for the Plant unit. The students chose a variable to manipulate in order to see how plant growth is affected. As a class, we are in the process of setting up a wiki on which we will keep the data and observations from each experiment. From all of this, we will hopefully be able to see which variables have the greatest effect on plant growth. -The students are also in the process of choosing an Explorer Project topic. The proposals were due today. If you have not signed your child's form, please ask to see it ASAP so I can have a discussion with each group about their project. Humanities: - Vocabulary tests this week! On Tuesday students will have rounds 1, 2 and 3 of the test. They will have to choose the correct word to complete the sentence. Round 2 will be to unscramble 5 of the words, and in round 3 I will give the dictionary definition of a word and the students will need to identify which word fits that definition. Round 4 and 5 are on Thursday. Round 4 is a spelling test where I will read 5 words and the students will spell them, in round 5 I will be showing a picture on the screen and the students will need to identify which vocabulary word is being shown or which word best describes the image. For example I may show a picture of people carrying a canoe and the students would chose "PORTAGE". - -The written history of the SHOW AND TELL object is due Tuesday. We have been working for 3-4 classes on the research and write up. The history needs to be written in paragraphs telling the audience what the object is, where and when it was used, and who may have used it. This is not family history, this is information that the kids can find online or in books. "A pocket watch was given to CP Rail conductors for not only ensuring the train was on time, but also to help with some navigation. The watch were made in Canada and were attached to a chain. The watches were then tucked into a vest pocket, which was part of the uniform of a CP rail conductor." - For more about this project please view the assignment explanation on the Humanities page. |