Announcements:

* Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

* G.W. Williams counsellor visit at RHPS for grade 8's @ 9:10am tomorrow

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

Important Upcoming Dates

Friday, January 12th - G.W. Williams visit @ RHPS for grade 8's (9:10am)

- New Year's Resolution Blog Due

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

- Math: Spatial sense continued (rotations and reflections of geometric shapes)

- Literacy: Media Literacy and Parts of speech (verbs & adverbs)

- Science: Fluids & Pure Substances and mixtures

- Geography: Challenges in the environment & Land Reclamation

- Health: Healthy eating

- Art: Mosaic Art

Math

Learning Goal: We are learning to identify the properties of tessellating shapes

- Students explored the different properties and attributes of tessellating polygons

- Discovered that the sum of the interior angles of tessellating shapes equal 360 degress

Homework:

- Tessellations worksheet

Literacy

- Discussed the different types of verbs (action & state of being)

- Continued working on New Year's Resolution Blog

- Students independently worked on their science reading comprehension package

Homework:

- Verb slides (click for direct access)

- New Year's Resolution Blog (click for direct access)

- Science comprehension package (for students who completed their verb slides and blog assignment)

- 20 minutes of silent reading

Science

- We conducted 3 in-class demonstrations using bottles, balloons and coins to highlight particle movement and behaviour

- Students made predictions before each demonstration, then observed what occured with the balloons and coins

Homework:

- Complete the observation and Explanation portion of their Particle Demonstrations package