MATH: 

• Visit the Math Number Sense Blog and share a variety of strategies on how you might solve the challenge: Sharing Strawberries.  This is an opportunity to brainstorm, piggyback and extend ideas in your math thinking.  This will be our Performance Task for this Friday.
• looking at Factors (prime and composite numbers), creating factor trees

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Expert group have been reorganized into impactgroups. Using the wiki pages as a guide compare and contrast two forms of energy.  Analyze the long-term effects on the environment of humans using energy and natural resources.  Suggest ways to reduce these impacts.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

• visit the Social Studies Blog, watch the Heritage Minute video  and respond to the guiding question.
• Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  Research due Thursday January 24th

MATH: 

• Visit the Math Number Sense Blog and share a variety of strategies on how you might solve the challenge: Sharing Strawberries.  This is an opportunity to brainstorm, piggyback and extend ideas in your math thinking.  This will be our Performance Task for this Friday.
• Dividing, use inverse operation (multiplication) to check your answer 

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Expert group have been reorganized into impactgroups. Using the wiki pages as a guide compare and contrast two forms of energy.  Analyze the long-term effects on the environment of humans using energy and natural resources.  Suggest ways to reduce these impacts.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

• visit the Social Studies Blog, watch the Heritage Minute video  and respond to the guiding question.
• Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  Research due Thursday January 24th.

MATH: 

• Visit the Math Number Sense Blog and share a variety of strategies on how you might solve the challenge: Sharing Strawberries.  This is an opportunity to brainstorm, piggyback and extend ideas in your math thinking.  This will be our Performance Task for this Friday.
• Dividing, MMS p. 74, #9 - 12, use inverse operation (multiplication) to check your answer (the anchor charts on on the January 10th homework post).

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Expert group have been reorganized into impact groups. Using the wiki pages as a guide compare and contrast two forms of energy.  Analyze the long-term effects on the environment of humans using energy and natural resources.  Suggest ways to reduce these impacts.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

• visit the Social Studies Blog, watch the Heritage Minute video  and respond to the guiding question.
• Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  Research due Thursday January 24th.

NOTE: Optional Attendance forms have been sent home with students who do not live within the boundaries of Winona Drive S.S. and are considering applying to a home school for Grade 7 that offers Extended French.  

MATH: 

• Visit the Math Number Sense Blog and share a variety of strategies on how you might solve the challenge: Sharing Strawberries.  This is an opportunity to brainstorm, piggyback and extend ideas in your math thinking.  This will be our Performance Task for this Friday.
• Dividing by a 2-digit Number, MMS p. 70, #4 - 8, use inverse operation (multiplication) to check your answer

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Expert group research is due tomorrow.

SOCIAL STUDIES: visit the Social Studies Blog, watch the Heritage Minute video  and respond to the guiding question.

NOTE: Optional Attendance forms have been sent home with students who do not live within the boundaries of Winona Drive S.S. and are considering applying to the school for Grade 7; the home school is written on a post-it for your information.   Optional Attendance forms need to be completed if parents are considering applying to a middle school that is NOT their home school.  
- Winona Drive S.S. transition evening is Tuesday January 22nd, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.

MATH: 

• Visit the Math Number Sense Blog and share a variety of strategies on how you might solve the challenge: Sharing Strawberries.  This is an opportunity to brainstorm, piggyback and extend ideas in your math thinking.  This will be our Performance Task for this Friday.
• Exploring Multiples, MMS p. 44, #5 - 8

 

SCIENCE: students have been assigned into small groups to begin researching an area in energy/electricity.  Resources need to be collected for students to collaboratively write jot notes within the Energy/Electricity wiki.  This research is due Wednesday January 16th.

SOCIAL STUDIES: visit the Social Studies Blog, watch the Heritage Minute video  and respond to the guiding question.

POETRY: Several students need to have their poems "A JOURNEY" typed and ready as we are sharing in small groups to refine our poems prior to the final printout.   PAST DUE.

MUSIC: Go to the Music Blog and provide descriptive feedback to your assigned composer.  A Star and a Wish, also include one interesting fact that you learned about the composer. PAST DUE.

Please continue to complete the tasks listed in the homework yesterday  :o)

                            

SOCIAL STUDIES: please share ONE response to the question in a post-it posed on  wallwisher.  Click on the top of the post-it to type in your first name only. Include an image that supports your response. 

• based on closing discussions today and in-class/online activities in google docs, reflect and comment on the video clip in the Social Studies blog

MATH: revisiting whole numbers and multiplication, MMS pg. 65 - 66, #4 - 7, using lattice and long multiplication

 
 

 





Bowling Project: complete your graph and data analysis of the Class Total Scores for Tuesday January 15th.


SCIENCE: students have been assigned into small groups to begin researching an area in energy/electricity.  Resources need to be collected for students to collaboratively write jot notes within the Energy/Electricity wiki.  This research is due Wednesday January 16th.

POETRY: Several students need to have their poems "A JOURNEY" typed and ready as we are sharing in small groups to refine our poems prior to the final printout.   PAST DUE.

MUSIC: Go to the Music Blog and provide descriptive feedback to your assigned composer.  A Star and a Wish, also include one interesting fact that you learned about the composer. Due Monday January 14th.

NOTE:

• Spectrum Alternative School and the Grade 7 Extended French Program flyer has been sent home with your child. There are a few schools offering the program and an information evening for parent(s)/guardian(s).