Great day for sunshine but even with 25 bodies, the classroom is an oven...and a few of my students are still hiding in their hoodies!! Not ready to shake off their warm clothing yet I guess.
Many thanks to all the parents, teachers and students who came out on Friday night to help set up and came back again on Saturday with donations and baking and shift help- some stayed the whole time from 9-1pm and the clean up was a snap with so many willing helpers and three trucks. Great teamwork and our efforts netted us $1500 for the Camp fund. Thanks especially to parent Kathy W. for all her organization and overseeing of the venture- we apprecitae and are grateful for your leadership.
Homework
read those novels but other than that nothing new
Reminders
remember to check the school website for anything I might have missed as I sometimes have reminders specific only to the grade 6/7
Track and Field practices throughout the week
UBC survey for the on-going anti-bullying project with Dr. S. Hymel this week (TBA)
Our day...
daily French
Poem frame today for a quirky format poem called Dumb and Dumber by Bruce Lansky (thought it appropriate as we studied the comparative and superlative of adjectives last week.
The concept is that a number of 'dumb' things that people do are not as bad as the absolutely 'dumbest' thing that you could do...clear as mud?
I suggest students start with the 'dumbest' thing they can think of- we came up with: driving drunk, not wearing a bike (or ski) helmet, learning to smoke, taking drugs, becoming a terrorist etc
Here are the last couple of lines of a student sample...
...
It's dumber than throwing a fishing line
and getting caught up in the hook
But what's dumbest by far than all these things
is judging someone by the way they look.
That way they can work back to the other less 'dumb' things like taking a shower before getting undressesd or snorting wasbi - you know the crazy things people do!!
here's another ending
...
It's dumber than taking your dog to a dance
it's dumber than petting a skunk
but dumbest by far of all these things
is driving when your drunk
novel time- have more students finishing the reading which is very encouraging- they have a choice of activity to demonstrate their understanding of the story. Encouraging completion by mid May.
Math 7 Circumference of circles
Today we used a 2007 article form the Province about the 'new' 27m high ferris wheel (old one was 18m) and we did some circuference finding and used the numbers in the article to consider a number of math/real life related ideas.
For example: Was it good business practice for the PNE to spend 8 million dollars on new rides and attractions in 2007? What information do we need to be able to determine that?
How many more passengers in one ride can the 'new' ferris wheel carry - if the average ride is $x what kind of profit margins are made over the former ferris wheel?
What is the circumference of the new wheel? The old wheel? etc
Math is all around us (physics too!)
silent reading/ literacy class
What to do with the 'sillies'? You know the ones who pretend to read and watch me watching them wasting their independent reading time-moved some but the giggles continued something was very funny but I didn't catch the joke! (the boys are the gigglers this year!!!)
Science: Geology Rock and Mineral lab
lesson: idetifying rocks, minerals and properties. Looking at the three main formation processes of rocks and using magnification glasses to 'see' the minerals in rock.
hands-on identification of different rocks and minerals at a number of stations in the class. Students had to complete a chart of rock and minreal properties and try to identify what they might be (more time needed for the identification process).
Students seemed to very engaged and interersted in rocks in general- it was a successful activity on such a warm afternoon.
Puberty criss cross- nearly completed - imagine that we just ran out of time...the students remembered a lot of the proper terms from last week's lesson.
Busy, productive day. Thanks everyone.
Thanks to Kim for her volunteer help during the lab- no one was hurt (no rocks were thrown!), no rock specimens were lost and everyone managed to complete the chart (well nearly everyone).
Enjoy the sun.
Have a nice night.
Mrs. J.
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