It was so great to have our questions answered by The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson Minister of Environment and Climate Change as we participated in a town hall meeting about climate change hosted by MP Tony Van Bynen.

Arm Bands

Have a look around your house. Do you have anything that we could use as back up arm bands? Ribbon? Cut-up socks? Felt? Let's work together to make sure we can offer a back up to someone who may have forgotten.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend - Happy Halloween!

The Joy Project

Today we presented our project ideas to the class and received feedback on how to make them even better. 

Identity

Combining our mission statement drafts - we now have a class mission statement.

And a set of rules that guide us to that statement.

Now, our big challenge is - How do we ensure everyone is living up to these expectations?

 Math - Checkpoint tomorrow on Rate and Ratio

Art

Today we started a project in 3D Origami. Please make sure you have chosen what your sculpture will be.

Joy Project

I introduced our class Joy Project. We are creating ways that we can spread joy throughout the school. We started project ideas today. We will get feedback and create a full plan tomorrow. 

Math

 In the 2004 summer olympics, Adam van Koeverdan of Oakville, Ontario won two medals. He won the gold medal in the men's 500m kayak race with a time of 1 min 37.9 seconds. He also won the bronze medal in the 1000m race with a time of 3 mins 28.2 seconds. Which race did he paddle with greater speed?

 We began the day setting our intentions for the week. Please share with your family at home what your intentions are for this week.

Math

We began to look at rate and ratio. Please answer the following questions:

1. Jerome has a summer job as a bricklayer's assistant. He is responsible for mixing the concrete. Concrete is made of cement, sand and gravel in a ratio of  1 : 3 : 4 by mass. Jerome needs to make 80kg of concrete. How much cement, sand and gravel does he need?

2.

 Who got the better deal?

Science

I returned the checkpoints and we discussed ways to improve.

I calculated my ecological footprint at https://www.footprintcalculator.org/. Please calculate your footprint. 

Drama

Today we did some activities that got us in the swing of improvisation, directed gesture and creative scene creation (tableau). Tell you family at home about the word at a time story, same gesture circle and the family portrait.

History/Identity

What does it mean to belong? We looked at the story "The "In" Group. Please answer the following questions:

1. In this story, who was the victim?
2. Who were the perpetrators?
3. Who were the bystanders?
4. Who were the upstanders?
5. Why do you think people do nothing even when they know something happening around them is wrong?

 High School!

Coming up in November, RHHS will be bringing the school to us! They will be sending us a "virtual" intro to high school. In order to make sure they are answering all of your questions they have asked that you fill out the google form below by Thursday Oct. 29th.

RHHS Google Form

Math

Alain is purchasing a pair of jeans that is on sale for 25% off (or has a sales discount of 25%). As the sales person is calculating the final price, Alain asks her to take the discount off before adding the sales tax so that he gets the best price. 

The salesperson states that by adding on the tax and then removing the discounted amount, the price will be lower.

Who is correct? Why does your answer make sense? Give a convincing argument.

Identity - History/Literacy

Please complete your perspective writing assignment for Monday. (see yesterday's blog post)

Team Building

Today we did an activity called "Grid Walk"

What role did you take on in the group? Were you proactive? Did your work to help the group? Did you sit back and let others do the work?

Have a great weekend!

 

We began the day by talking about the importance of name as a part of our identity. We need to make sure we are always respectful and caring with naming in our community.

Thankful Thursday. - We officially began our gratitude practice; a weekly gratitude journal.

High School! - Ms. Rifle spoke to the class today about upcoming dates for information nights and applications of specialized programs (IB, Fine Arts, Sports)

Math 

We did some mental math around calculating tips. Please make sure you have completed the laptop question from yesterday we will continue our discussion around this.

Science

We reviewed the components of a system and had a little in-class checkpoint on our understanding of systems, subsystems, mechanisms, inputs and outputs.

History - Identity

We took a look at the word portraits of "We" and "They" and discussed what it is like when "they" becomes personal. I introduced a perspective writing assignment. We choose a group or community that we belong to and choose a regular event for that community. Write a description of that event from the perspective of a community member - within the group. Now write a second description of the same event from the perspective of someone who is not part of that community. This assignment is due Monday and you will have some class time to work on tomorrow.

• Each description should be a minimum of 150 words
• Ensure that each description is from a different perspective (voice)
• Please proofread for spelling, punctuation and proper use of capital letters