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Week of October 6th
Week of September 22-26
8/9 Backpacking Trip
8/9 Backpacking Trip
The grade 8 & 9 students had the opportunity to travel to Banff National Park and hike 9km in to Glacier Lake where they spent 2 fun filled nights! Memories were made!!
Barn Yard Update
Barn Yard Update
The sheep are back from pasture, we have 2 new heifers and we processed our commercial turkeys this week!
Terry Fox Run
Terry Fox Run
The whole school participated in the Terry Fox Run this past Tuesday.
Grade 9 Social
In social, students have been learning about how bills become laws in Canada. While dealing with this topic, students did some research and found some bills or laws that pertain to farm animals.
Week of September 15 - 18
Student Council Elections
This week we held student council elections. For some positions, that had more than one student running, speeches were given and students had the opportunity to vote for who they thought would best fulfill the roles of that particular position. The student council will be responsible for planning junior high activities throughout the year. They will also serve as liaison between the School Board and the junior high student body.
Great North Seed Potatoes Farm
NHCS students visited a local potato farm to learn more about this specific type of farming. Students learned information about the step by step process of how a potato ends up on your plate, starting with a plant in a laboratory all the way to buying potatoes and other items from the store. NHCS students were also treated to a delicious lunch in which they were able to sample some of these other items such as french fries, perogies, potato salad and potato chips. Thank you to the Bakker family and their partners for a wonderful field trip!
Week of September 8 - 12
Olds College
Grade 7 - 9 students spent the day at Olds College learning about how to conduct research. They went on a tour of the Smart Farm, learned more about the farm equipment used and visited the meat shop.
Junior High Field Sports Option
Students in grades 7 - 9 have been enjoying learning the skills and rules involved in Flag Football. Students will have a couple more days of skill development and game play and they will then learn about the sport of Lacrosse.
Week of September 2 - 5
Assemblies
Two grade 9 students created the slides and ran the first assembly of the year. For the remainder of the year, this job will be completed by students in grade 8 and 9.
Novel Study
Grade 9 students began reading
The Hunger Games while enjoying some fresh air.
Worldview License Plate
In Social, student created a license plate that represented their worldview.
Grade 1 Buddies
Grade 9 students have been getting together with the grade 1s to help them become more familiar with the barnyard and to better learn the rules and expectations.
Week 1 - August 27 - 29
Welcome to Grade 9!!!!!
Outdoor drama games
In order for the grade nines to get to know one another better, and learn important outcomes such as collaboration, the students were taken outside to play drama games like "Zip-zap-boing" with Mr. Beairsto.
Math with Mrs. Martinoff
Gr. 9 students have started the year by using numbers to describe important aspects of themselves and the barnyard. For example they may have used the number 5110 to represent how many days they have been alive or they may have used the fraction 3/5 to represent the fact that out of the 5 different types of animals that are currently in the barnyard (goats, ducks, chickens, turkeys, cat), three of them are poultry.
Science 9
This week, the students began their unit on Biological Diversity. They learned about ecosystems with high and low diveristy, and why that is important. We finished the week by building little ecosystems in a jar! The students gathered several important components for creating a self-contained ecosystem within their sealed jars: gravel (for drainage), soil (support root systems), and plants themselves. On Monday, we will be adding pillbugs to the jars in order to populate the ecosystems with decomposers, thus completing our self-contained systems! The students will collect data on the progress of these jars over the next coming weeks.
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