Week at a Glance - 7

Week 10: October 19-22

Pumpkin Mania!

Math, Language Arts, the Arts & Home Ec. all in one!

Grade 2 Buddies

This week we headed into the forest to teach our grade 2 buddies how to safely climb a tree!

Branding

We hit the barnyard during math class and had students try their hand at branding on wood cookies.

Embracing the Snow!

Gym class can be even more fun in the snow!!

Week 9: October 19-22

Indigenous Games Tournament

Students are trying a number of different traditional indigenous games including high kick, buffalo push, arm pull and triple jump.

Sensory Journals

As part of Ms. Hutchinson's practicum, she is doing a project on improving student writing.... enter sensory journals.

Percent & Decimals

We worked with a number line to arrange decimals, fractions & percentages.

Charter Option

The kids got to taste test a variety of salsa, including some that they made themselves with Chef Jeff.

NHCS goes to Lakeland College!

Junior High students traveled to Lakeland College on Thursday and learned a lot about research and about the operations of the college farm. One thing in particular was learning about the use of drones in farming, specifically in spraying crops.

Week 8: October 14-16

Quick Writes

We are working on our descriptive writing with daily quick writes with Ms. Hutchinson!.... This week, we are focusing on our senses!

Jabberwocky

We are getting close to the end of our Plants for Food & Fibre unit, so we have been working on our final project - Jabberwocky! This fake planet gives students the ability to create new plants that can survive on their 'continent' including ways it propagates and how they control pests.

Analyzing Scat

In Ranch Skills, we looked at a variety of different predator to farms' scat.

Week 7: October 5-9

Grade 2 Buddies - Seeds & Cones

We ventured out looking for different ways plants propogate!

SEED Day with EPBR

Eagle Point Blue Rapids Parks Council came to do nature journals with us for our SEED Day activities.

Pickling Carrots

We met up with Chef Jeff who taught us how to pickle carrots.... we then made it into a math & LA lesson! We worked with doubling the recipe, ratios and conversions in math, followed by procedural instructions in LA.

Sheep Breeding

Mrs. Besler talked to us about the breeding - our ram is here and ready to go so we have some new spring lambs!

Cross-Country

Students had the opportunity to travel to Wetaskiwin this week for the Peace Hills Meet.

Communication

Students worked on their communication skills with a back to back activity where one student had to describe what was on their paper to their partner who then tried to draw it as described.

Making Salsa

Chef Jeff taught the junior high students how to make salsa. Unfortunately, it was not with our own home grown ingredients due to unfavourable conditions this summer.

Charter Option

Students have been helping out with special projects, one being getting the turkeys loaded in order to be taken in for processing.

Charter Option

Discussing with Mrs. Besler reasearch topic ideas for each barnyard project.

Week 6: September 28-October 2

Testing Soil

We did a little experiment looking at different types of soil.....

Reading to the Animals

We started a novel study this week and spent one class out reading to the animals.... Jackson really enjoyed it;)

Zip Math

Practicing our math facts in a game!

Rotissarie Chicken

In Ranch Skills, we learned how to cut up a rotissarie chicken into the different cuts of meat.

Parts of a Goat

In Ranch Skills, we learned about the different parts of a goat and tried our best to label them on the goats.

Volleyball

The Jr. High girls had their second game of the season this week!

Humble Habits

Mrs. Clark recognized many students who have been displaying positive Humble Habits behaviour.

Field Sports Option

Junior High students are currently playing Lacrosse in the Field Sports option.

Week 5: September 21-25

Sheep Perspective

We met with Mrs. Besler this week to get an inside look at what it's like to be a sheep in our yard.... they are back!!

Making the most of the nice Weather!

We are a month in and have only had 2 days of school in the gym!

Parts of a Plant

Getting out into the forest to further examine different parts of a plant!

Brain Breaks!

Sometimes you just need to have a little fun & give the brain a rest on a Friday morning!

Bulbs

Science class continues to dive into seeds vs bulbs as well as parts of the flower.

Vacinations

In Ranch Skills, we learned about the different type of injections that you can do on an animal and practiced it on our hotdog bun.

Exercise!

The Ranch Skills kids took the goats and Jackson out for a well needed brain break.

Animal By-Products

In Ranch Skills, we talked about the by-products of animals and sorted different products into which animal we thought they belonged with.

Week 4: September 14-18

Grade 2 Buddies

This week we headed out to the barnyard to continue our work on odd-even!

Beans in Windows

We have been doing a few different experiments in our Plants for Food & Fibre unit including growing beans in the window and lettuce seeds in different growing conditions.

Watercolours to Words

Students hit the barnyard to paint a scene... this scene was then used to make a creative writing piece.... to learn more, check out our charter lessons page.

Leaves

This week we learned about leaves.... did some hands on work with a dicotomus key and sampled some lettuce that spent some time in salty & sugary water.

Golf Tournament

4 of our grade 7's had the opportunity to go play in the LDAA golf tournament in Wetaskiwin this week. Fun was had by all!

Leather Work - option

A handful of 7's have been busy creating some beautiful pieces in leatherwork.... I can't wait to see thier belts in a couple weeks.

Auction

We practiced our evaluation of animals while partaking in an auction. Some of the students tried their hand at auctioneer too.

Debating Confederation

We had a debate in Social about whether or not each group wanted to join confederation or not.

Week 3: September 8-11

Math Games

We are big on applying what we know in a fun way.... this is 'Splat' - a game of quick thinking and basic math facts.

Writing

We like spending time writing in our journals in the barnyard - only one paper was eaten this week!

Flower Disection

This week we examined the different parts of a flower.

Golf Practice

Our last week of golf practice before we head to our first golf tournament of the school year.

Week 2: August 31 - September 4

We all learn social!

While we were learning our topics in Social class, the chicks were right there with us learning about the topics too.

Starting the year off in full swing!

We started our golf practices early this year and some of the 7's came to practice.

Grade 2 Buddies

We worked with our grade 2 buddies this week on ODD & EVEN!

Journals

Students were challenged to describe where they were in the woods without telling me where they were.....

Splat Review

We did a little 'Splat Review' in LA this week!

Safety on the Farm

In Ranch Skills, we talked about different things to look for that can create unsafe situations on the farm.

Roping Practice

At the end of Ranch Skills, we took out the roping dummies and practiced our skills.

Week 1 - August 27 & 28

Barnyard Tour

With so many new faces this year, Mrs. Besler took us on a full tour of the barnyard, complete with explinations of what chores entail. We may have also given some TLC to the new baby chicks!

Welcome Activities

The grade 7's tried their hand at a number of hands on activiites such as the 'Tower of Terror'.

Teamwork

We dove right in on some teamwork activities!

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