Tuesday, January 30th (Day 1)

 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

Thursday, January 31st - Geography Culminating Tasks Due

Friday, February 2nd - PA Day

Tuesday, February 6th - Math Culminating Task

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 Dilations

- 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 about a vertex

- Students observed patterns of shapes after rotations about the origin

- Explored how to perform 90 degrees about a vertex (counterclockwise and clockwise)

Independent tasks

- Rotation Consolidation Slides (click direct access)

- Lesson 6 Graphing Under Rotation (click for direct access)

Literacy 

- We continued exploring the concept of cultural assimilation

- Students started working on their I AM FROM poems 

Independent tasks

- Journal Entry Activity (click for direct access) 

- 20 minutes of silent reading

   

Art

- Students used water colour as the base for their mosaic 

Independent Tasks

- All work was completed during class