Apologies for the lack of new posts the last couple of days. Monday was a Pro-D day and I had the chance to try to make friends with the new technology that I have installed in the classroom. There is still so much to learn about the operation and use of it in learning in the classroom. I have hardly scratched the surface. A new software called RM Easiteach for the Epson digital overhead is the next piece of the puzzle for my learning curve. We are mere acquaintances as yet; friendship will be a journey!!
I also had the time to source and watch a fabulous documentary series which brings together the social studies learning we have been working on this year regarding civilization. It is called Civilization: Is the West History? In the first part, it analyses at the history of the rise and fall of China as a great inventive and forward looking civilization from ancient days to the 14th century and then shows how, with the death of the emperor, the small countries of western Europe on the heels of the adventures of Vasco Da Gama (Portugal) managed to begin the great 'Spice Race' which set Spain, France, Holland, and , not to be outdone, England off on a capitalistic venture that was the foundation for the domination of the world by the West. Very interesting and appropriate for our program of learning about 'civilization'.
That was Monday.
Tuesday I was not in school. The day plan that follows was the learning as set out for the day. Thanks to my TOC Ms. B.
Spelling return unit 3 / prep unit 4
Pronoun worksheet to follow up last week's lesson on antecedents and agreement of pronouns
Biography poster time (for those completed a L.Arts activity about Atlantis was assigned)
Math 7 learning the odds of the lottery (game called Lotto 6/10) and discussion
1-2pm Mrs. K. Riley - counsellor at DRS visited the grade sevens and introduced their grade 8 registration forms (due Friday)
2-2:30 pm Phys. Ed. split gym floor hockey/ basketball
Silent reading
Dismissal
Finally today- I will give the homework and complete the rest from home as I have to get going. I had a meeting after school tonight that went a bit longer than I had anticipated so I as a result am later than I wanted to be... c'est la vie!
Homework
study for redo of Unit 3 spelling
prep for Unit 4 spelling test Friday
Math 7 complete last two pages of the statistics booklet (on reading/interpreting graphs)
Biography posters advance the work on them at home please- time in class is getting less and less.
Reminders
Grade 8 forms are due by this Friday
Hoodie order update- the colour we chose had to be changed! It will be a 'royal blue' rather than a turquoise
report cards will go home Monday May 7th
look for a Camp letter tomorrow
General Day
(later alligator) It's later!
Spelling practice Unit 4
Biography poster time (those completed worked on a language activity and did a great job)
Band
Math 7 Statistics unit- reading graphs and analyzing information. Started with a review of Mean, Mode, Median and Range and moved onto looking at what decisions the data might help us make. The activities today asked specific questions about whether the data could be considered reliable and what the data leaned to in the way of answers. At 11:30am we went to the computers for a practice session using Microsoft Excel's Chart Wizard function to create bar and line graphs for given data.
Silent Reading
Socials Studies Part 1 of the Civilization documentary (mentioned above) approx. 40 minutes
The six "killer apps" that allowed the West to dominate the rest of the world
1. competition
2. science
3. property
4. medicine
5. consumerism
6. work ethic
Phys Ed. Class game today Doctor Dodge
back in class we completed the documentary (10 minutes left)- think I will keep them in future to a half hour as that fits the afternoon time structure and it is probably enough to take in. Follow up activity tomorrow.
Dismissal after a clean up and review of homework
I can hardly believe it is Thursday tomorrow. Really?
Have a good what's left of the evening.
Mrs. J.
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