Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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.