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​May this year turn all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.

November 30th

11/30/2015

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So long last day of November!  Welcome to December festivities!!  We will be creating winter art in our wing and decorating our door with a variety of elves.  I need some volunteers who would like to design elf bodies doing some kind of actions. eg. hockey playing elf.  Post if you are willing to design one and tell which action you will design.  We will do this on Wednesday.
POST:For those who have participated in the Young Entrepreneur Show, what was your favourite part of the entire process? Explain. For those who have not done this show (made something and sold it), how do you think this a positive experience?
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Reminders:
PE tomorrow
Entrepreneur show on Wednesday ($5 would buy you some wonderful stocking stuffers)
Grade 6 Math corrections
Bring costume for play on Wednesday: blue jeans or pants (black if you don't have blue), red shirt, winter hats (toques), white shirts if you don't have red.  
Those who have promised, remember to bring props
Term 1 Field Trip notice permission and $
 
Food Bank: Please bring a non-perishable food donation for the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper
Breakfast with Santa Tickets available


Dates to add to your Calendar:
Dec. 2 Entrepreneur Show
Dec. 4 Hot lunch

Dec. 8 Christmas Production 10:30 Daytime and 6:30 evening performance
Dec. 9 Christmas Production 10:30 daytime performance only

Dec. 9 & 10 Early Dismissal for Parent/ Teacher Meetings (Meetings will be held from 8-10th)
Dec. 15 Term 1 Field Trip

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November 27

11/27/2015

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 It's time for playground games!!  Great time today with our buddies!
All reflections are done and work is uploaded onto Fresh grade.  If you are still needing to upload and you can't do that from home, come early on Monday to get it completed.
Quilt making time:
​Look at the gallery below for some ideas on what we will be doing for the class quilt we are making.  You will each be completing a square.  For Monday,
choose a plant that has some kind of special meaning to you. For example, it could be something that grows in your heritage country,(mine could be the Scottish thistle, the rose or lavender in England);  it could be the plant associated with the month you were born in (mine would be the Sweet Pea for April);  it could be a special plant that has a particular meaning for you (mine would be the Wisteria that my friends gave me when my dad passed away); and there are many more examples.
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POST the name of your plant and share why you chose that one.  Then start sharing some ideas of how you would like to represent your artwork on the square of material.  (It might be something you don't know how to do eg. sewing)
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Homework/Reminders:
All uploaded work and reflections should be on Fresh grade
​Math (see yesterday for grade 6)

Bring your red shirt on Monday
Decide on which plant/flower you will do your quilt square on.
Practice your dance moves and actors practice your expression in a mirror.
​Entrepreneur show Wednesday
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November 26th, 2015

11/26/2015

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Who gets this?

Yay, tomorrow is PJ day!!  But there will be no sleeping in class!!  Remember tomorrow to have all of your evidence for your goals and your original blue and yellow goal sheets ready for me to collect.
Additional Reminders:

- complete all science, biomes due (share with me)
- reflection on gdoc 
- math for Monday (see teachers), gr. 6s 2 practice sheets, pg. 228 #4,5,6,7a), b) and c)
- bring goals and evidence tomorrow
- bring red shirt tomorrow so we can see them


Have a look at your dance video and POST one thing you can do to improve for your next practice.  Everyone is an actor and dancer (even the narrator is acting and you will join in the dance at the end)  
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Here some background information on Rocket Richard
We are discovering the difference between a food chain................food web.....
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​...and pyramid of numbers
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Pyramid of numbers is a model showing the transfer of energy passing through various levels in a food chain. In particular, it shows the numbers of organisms at each level. There are fewer organisms at the top (thinner) and many organisms 'producers' at the bottom (wider). The fewer secondary consumers need to eat more of the organisms on the lower level in order to get enough energy.  

Challenge:
Our attendance person has recently been focussing on questions about the Syrian refugees and due to some of the hate crimes in the world news, I thought this might be a good time to show you this clip.  What are your thoughts after watching this?
This is an experiment done in Toronto.
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Nov. 25

11/25/2015

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Please bring your red shirts (if you have them) tomorrow to see what they look like for our play. Be sure parents know the dates and ticket information for our winter concert.
Remind your parents that they should all be invited by now to your Fresh grade.  They should let me know if they cannot access it.


This is the 3rd week for your goals.  I will be collecting your evidence and original plan sheet on Friday. 

To help prepare for science post choosing any organism and state one adaptation that it has.
Here is the link for biomes of the world. Follow your criteria.  By the way, once you click onto your biome, you can drag your map right into your google doc.
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Beautiful Peace art.



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​Reminders:
Be sure to work on your goals as I will be doing an assessment Friday.
PJ day is on Friday.
Be prepared to practise our dance/theatre during P.E. tomorrow.  Bring your red shirts.

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November 24

11/24/2015

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Optional post today.  You can post a comment or question you might have today.  Lots of learning was happening today.  We learned the difference between a food chain and a food web, and photosynthesis and respiration and what a pyramid of numbers means.  Here is the link for biomes of the world.  Choose one and feel free to start reading about it so you can begin your next assignment tomorrow.
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Reminders:
Be sure to work on your goals as I will be doing an assessment Friday.
PJ day is on Friday.
Be prepared to practise our dance/theatre during P.E. tomorrow and Thursday.
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Nov. 23

11/23/2015

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Wow, water polo fun today!! POST your favourite thing about today!
 We also  reviewed the importance of organizing our ideas when we write.  Be sure to complete your snowboarding 'mixed-up' paragraph for tomorrow.
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More photos of our water polo and Peace art.
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November 20

11/20/2015

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​Our final water polo is Monday.  Please remind your parents that we return a bit later as we swim until 2:30.  Thank you to all parent drivers.  We will leave at 1:00 and return to Hillcrest around 2:45, depending on how quickly the students change. 

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We are beginning week 3 of our goals.  If you still have not explained your goals and plan on Freshgrade, please catch up this weekend.  Also on Freshgrade you are all expected to assess each week on exactly what you did to follow your plan and how you think you did. Then decide what you need to do to improve.  Do you need to start your plan, change some of your strategies or ask me for another idea on how to achieve success?

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Many of you are working really hard to be a better student.  What I see is this:
Instead of saying...                           You say...
I'm not good at this.                 What will help me?

I give up.                                    I'll use some of the                                                                   strategies we've learned.


It's good enough.                      What can I do to make it                                                         my very best work?


I made a mistake.                      Mistakes help me learn!
POST one thing that you can do to be a better student.

Yay!!! It was over the top excitement when the grade 7s received their hoodies today.
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​Science test Monday!!  You have all chosen one study strategy, such as a concept map or cue cards with definitions and images on them. Do your best to prepare yourself.
See the reminders of concepts and terms covered on yesterday's site.


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November 19

11/19/2015

 
We have learned our science concepts and terminology in Chapter 1 including the following: characteristics of living things, abiotic, biotic, species, ecosystem, population, habitat, community, niche, predator, prey, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, decomposers, symbiosis, parasite, parasitism, host, mutualism, commensalism, and the food chain.  You will be tested on these concepts on Monday.  How will you prepare for this test?  Decide on one strategy you will use.  Bring your ideas and any helpful tools you have made tomorrow and I will give you class time to study.

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one example of each (mutualism, commensalism and parasitism) Read your classmates examples so you do not repeat examples.
There are some fun songs that will help you with review. See below:
Here is the link to the 'funny' review for the food chain.
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November 18th, 2015

11/18/2015

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WE ARE A TEAM!!
How fun watching you today at water polo!!  Post one thing you loved about it! 
For those who did not participate today in water polo, research and post 2 rules when playing water polo.

Today the students had their first "in-water" water polo session. Thank you to our parent drivers who transported the kids to the pool. Students engaged in a swim test, then did some water polo drills to practice their skills. They finished up with exciting games.
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Remember to practice your dance for tomorrow. (see yesterdays site) Today we learned our positions.
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Reminders/Homework:
Start reviewing for your science quiz. We will review tomorrow.

For (Thurs)Math gr. 7 Pg. 55 #7-9, gr6 pg. 221 #5-8
Grammar- finish pg. 88-89 (commas)
Continue with goals
​Grade 7 baked goods need to be dropped off before the Hillcrest Shopping night which is tomorrow at 3-8pm.
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November 17

11/17/2015

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We are continuing to work on our goals. Some of you need to work harder as you are now into your 2nd week.  You are also expected to assess your progress each week. 
Some of you need to believe in yourself...believe you can do it!  This is especially evident when you encounter a problem, such as when your computer freezes.  Try thinking to yourself, I can try refreshing it, or shutting it down and trying again or using the back arrow etc. 
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Complete your food chain, then share your document with me. Be sure to use your real name when you name it.  Use my example if you need to refer to the tips which I copied and pasted on the bottom of my doc. 
Play this game to help review living things. 
​Here is the link for the site on characteristics of living things.

​Homework/Reminders:

Water polo tomorrow.  We leave at 1pm and swim from 1:30-2:30
Finish food chain with roles due tomorrow.  Be sure to choose one ecosystem.
For (Thurs)Math gr. 7 Pg. 55 #7-9, gr6 pg. 221 #5-8
Grammar- finish pg. 88-89 (commas)
Continue with goals

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    Links for practice at home:
    LA:
    Parts of speech
    Punctuation
    10 words to cut from your writing
    Making connections
    transition phrases
    Transitions

    Wordle
    Tagxedo
    Elements to Short Story
    Story telling:
    Christmas Presents
    Toilet Training the Cat
    Boy goes over Niagara Falls
    Getting to know Stuart McLean ( writing, Canadian)

    Math:
    divisibility practice:
    common factors (divisors) and greatest common factors
    divisibility rules
    Fractions:
    equivalent fractions

    reducing fractions
    fraction monkey
    number line
    fractions
    fractions and mixed #s
    word problems
    Khan -mixed numbers
    mixed numbers to improper
    Find Grampy
    Decimals:
    adding decimals
    decimals on a number line
    ordering decimals
    Measurement:
    angle review
    quadrilaterals
    area and perimeter
    radius,diameter and circumference
    area of circle
    how do we get the area of a circle?
    General:
    https://www.khanacademy.org/
    mathmaster.org


    Science links:
    resources for Silverback gorillas
    Video of Silverbacks
    link to gorilla facts
    ways to classify life.  click here

    click here for human classification video
    another link for human classification
    apes... are they capable of complex thoughts and feelings?
    1. click here
    2. how they talk with sign language
    3. video clip on gorillas behaviour, Nov. 14

    Technology
    Gmail set up
    Weebly
    Animoto
    Prezi
    Digital Art
    Qrcode

    Research
     theguardian.com/worldtime-line
    www.factmonster.com/yearbyyear
     history.com/this-day-in-history
     thecanadianencyclopedia
    Encyclopedia
    Web path express
    google map

    create google maps
    create a map
    Google research tools
    Bibliography
    Vancouver Sun
    The Province
    Time For Kids


     

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