POETRY: Spoken Word poetry workshop reflection due tomorrow

WRITING:  Refer to Tavares' blog for suggestions in writing a book recommendation and the book cover re-design; you also have this information in your writing folder.

• Book Recommendation/Review due tomorrow           

*  Finalize rough copy

*  Upload to your Student Blog

• Book Cover Re-Design: consider the opportunity of being approached by a publishing company to re-design a book cover.  Use the feedback shared today to bump up your book cover design.  Final copy due tomorrow.

MATH: Bowling Project, bump up and reflect/respond to the feedback provided.

SCIENCE:  Energy/Electricity wiki.  Green home building materials list

A special thanks to Tanya who is a local spoken word artist for joining us this week  :o)

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: consider the opportunity of being approached by a publishing company to re-design a book cover.  Use the feedback shared today to bump up your book cover design.  Final copy due this Friday.

MATH: Entrance Pass for tomorrow revisit the math sheets handed back today, bump up and reflect/respond to the feedback provided.

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.

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)

 

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).

Book Recommendation

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: practice your 7 & 8 time tables. Practice multiplying up to 10 random 2-digit by 2-digit numbers.

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 have finalized and published their poems "A JOURNEY".  Please ensure that you have your poem typed, organized and used font to emphasis gist words.  We are sharing in small groups to refine our poems prior to the final printout.   

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.

Swimming at Winona this Thursday.
NOTE: Scientist in the School focussing on Electricity will be hosted in-class has been rescheduled for next month..

MATH: looking at whole numbers and multiplication, MMS pg. 65 - 66, #4 - 7
Bowling Project: bring in your completed task for the data Room 301 vs Room 308 for tomorrow

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 have finalized and published their poems "A JOURNEY".  Please ensure that you have your poem typed, organized and used font to emphasis gist words.  We are sharing in small groups to refine our poems prior to the final printout.   

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.

Swimming at Winona this Thursday.
Scientist in the School focussing on Electricity will be hosted in-class this Friday.

It is important that all students come to school prepared for learning each day by:
*  bringing all homework back to school
*  having a sharpened pencil and eraser
*  completing all online homework
*  come with a positive attitude