Joining us for three half-days this 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: finalize the free write poem from the poetry workshop this morning and be prepared to take it from "page to stage"

WRITING: 

• Book Recommendation/Review due Friday February 1st

*  Review book review in the newspaper, magazine, or online

    Review the following book review as examples: 

Hobbit
Percy Jackson

           

*  Finalize rough copy

*  Upload to your Student Blog

• Book Cover Re-Design: based on the examples shared today in class, consider the opportunity of being approached by a publishing company to re-design a book cover.  Draft due tomorrow.

MATH: Entrance Pass for tomorrow focussing on graphing/evaluating

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Green home building groups material needs.

Joining us for three half-days this 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.

WRITING: Entrance Pass for tomorrow; writing an announcement

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

MATH: Entrance Pass for tomorrow focussing on fractions

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Green home building groups material needs.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  PAST DUE

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

READING: 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.

PAST DUE: type up your book recommendation in your student blog.  

SCIENCE:  

Energy/Electricity wiki.  Students have been organized into the green home building groups. They are encouraged to complete their draft of floor plan design for tomorrow.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

• Heritage & Citizenship Wiki, focussing on the social, physical and government needs of First Nations groups before explorers/european contact.  Research due Thursday January 24th

Swim:  Please come prepared for tomorrow as it is our last swimming session at Winona.

MATH: use the descriptive feedback given on the individual and team bowling scores.  Begin to type up the analysis and calculations in a word document DUE tomorrow.

READING: 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.

PAST DUE: type up your book recommendation in your student blog.  

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.
PAST DUE: Home audit package, checklist section.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

• 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: use the descriptive feedback given on the individual and team bowling scores.  Begin to type up the analysis and calculations in a word document.

READING: type up your book recommendation in your student blog.  A book recommendation about a book you have recently read and why you would recommend this book to a peer in the classroom.

SCIENCE:  Home audit package, checklist section is due tomorrow.
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

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: Today's performance task was focused and on task, I look forward to hearing about your finding when we have our math parliament next week.

I can't wait to see what next week brings  :o)