The first snow of the season flies and you'd think that our students had never seen a snow flake- the excitement was amusing for the first half hour- now...not so much! But they have settled down.
I'm taking the opportunity to get a jump start on the post tonight as it is a busy evening for me after school: with fitness class and curling.
Homework
Math 7 nothing new for h/w gave the option of completing the Improper and Mixed fraction w/s we were working on in class- some still have a few overdue activities to turn in (see Mon. handout)
Math 6 complete decimal place value w/s
Novel have 4 reader's responses #3 (ch 16-20) to get yet
Spelling test #7- please study the words
Art projects overdue (name acrostic and Halloween poster!)
Reminders
Photo retakes tomorrow
Popcorn $1 available tomorrow
General Day
Daily French- some new vocabulary (mais souflee- popcorn) and hier, aujourd'hui and demain yesterday, today and tomorrow
the majority of students did well on their translation yesterday Level 2/3 average which is great for the first official 'translation'
Spelling 5 minutes to study (I find that even with only five minutes that some students are not or cannot use the time wisely!
Novel had some access computers to print their reader response #3 while others read and a growing number began work on their chosen end of novel projects
(snow excitement interrupted the quiet working atmosphere!) One of my studnets looked at me seriously and sai "We're 12 Mrs. J. What do you expect?" lol
Band
Math 7 today we began to look more in depth at the skills and concepts of conversion of fractions- decimals- percent- fractions-decimals and the big LOOP that is involved.
The skills are multiplying and dividing decimals and understanding the fraction (rational number) vocabulary: equivalent, improper, mixed, numerator, denominator, lowest terms and repeating or non-terminal decimals versus terminal decimals which have a complete quotient.
This completes the key concepts to be covered in Math 7 for Number Concepts and rounds out our Term 1 learning Outcomes although the skills will be needed for subsequent units into next term. If you have any questions about those concepts feel free to contact me. I have a easy to read chart that outlines the concepts for the Math 7 curriculum (actually, I can share the key concepts from K-grade 9 if you are interested to see the progression of Math skills and concepts) We had another productive and busy math class in which we completed one and a half worksheets together in class practicing conversion of fractions.
Silent Reading
French - to get some continuity we worked on the written activities for the French story from yesterday's class- once we settled (it took a while!) we managed to get three of the four activites complete- the fourth and final one is an activity we have to work on together as it is writing les phrases francais.
Phys Ed. Split gym today- half played floor hockey and the other half basketball
Thanks to Autumn for tidying the equipment room as it wasin need of a good organization.
Good sportsmanship and organization today- very impressive!
Spelling Bee- went to the competition words for the Vancouver Bee and our top three class spellers with bragging rights are TJ, Nic and Teresa who place in that order but are all winners to me. Great job.
Class had decided they would like the December 14th (Thursday) date for Cross country skiing- I will send home forms in the next couple of days.
Have a warm evening.
Mrs. J.
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