Thursday, January 24, 2013

Joining us for three half-days next week: Tanya is a local spoken word artist who recently represented Toronto at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Saskatoon and brought home the bronze medal with her poetry team.

POETRY: 
  • once your Journey poem is uploaded onto voicethread, recite your poem using 'audio' or 'webcam/video'
  • provide written descriptive feedback (a star and a wish) to the assigned Journey poem written by your peers; record your favourite passage from their poem and explain why
  •  upload your finalized poems into your student poetry blog.  This will act as a portfolio of your published piece.  Refer to Tavares Poetry Blog for entry ideas.  DUE Monday January 28th.

MATH: Entrance Pass for Monday January 28th focussing on number sense and numeration

SCIENCE:  
Energy/Electricity wiki.  Students have been organized into the green home building groups.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 
  • Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  POSTPONED Research due Monday January 28th