Friday, January 26th (Day 4)

 Announcements: 

* Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

* Grade 8 course selection period is from February 15th - 24th 

* Library is every Day 2 of the school cycle from 12-12:20pm

Important Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, January 30th - Geography Culminating Tasks Due

Wednesday, January 31st - Math Culminating Task

Friday, February 2nd - PA Day

Wednesday, February 7th - Grade 8 Grad Photo Day

Next Week At A Glance 

* Please note, these are subject to change to support students' needs*

- Math:  Transformations review and Dialtions

- Literacy: Race & Identity

- Science:  Fluids & Pure Substances and mixtures continued

- Geography: Culminating assignments 

- Health: Healthy eating continued

- Art: Mosaic Art continued

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

Learning Goal: We are learning to perform rotations on a Cartesian Plane

- Students observed patterns of shapes after rotations about the origin

- Explored how to perform 90, 180 and 270 degree rotations

Independent tasks

- Reflection package: page 202

- Solve 5 Transformation word problems (click for direct access)

Literacy 

- We continued exploring Chinese Canadians early experiences in Canada 

- Students continued working on their journal entries 

- Students who finished early completed the Media Task

Independent tasks

- Journal Entry Activity (click for direct access) 

- Media Task (click for direct access)

- Prepositions Activity Slides (click for direct access)

- 20 minutes of silent reading

   

Science

- Grade 8's discussed their observations from last class' viscosity experiment 

- Grade 7's independently read material on pure substances and mixtures

Independent Tasks

- Terms and definitions worksheet