Monday, February 5th (Day 4)

 Announcements: 

* Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

* Grade 8 course selection period opens February 15th and closes Feb 24th @ 4pm 

* Grade 8 hoodies are available for purchase via school cash online from Feb 1 - 8 (link is posted under "resources" on our google classroom)

* The following high schools are open to transfers: Alex Mackenzie H.S. & Aurora H.S.

-- Transfer requests must be submitted by Feb 2nd, 2024

Important Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, February 6th - Journal Entries due 

Wednesday, February 7th - Grade 8 Grad Photo Day (wear a white, collar shirt if possible)

Thursday, February 8th - Science Quiz

Friday, February 9th - Math Task 

Wednesday, February 15th - Course selection opens for grade 8's

Next Week At A Glance 

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

- Math: Intro to algebra

- Literacy: Race & Identity

- Science:  Experiments 

- History: Introduction 

- Health: Healthy eating continued

- Art: Sketching

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

Learning Goal: We are learning to perform dilatations (grade 8's)

- Grade 7's independently worked on the remaining pages in their package 

- Grade 8's learned how to perform dilatations on rectangles 

Independent tasks

- Gr. 8's only Dilatations Consolidation Slides (click direct access)

- Worksheet package, pages 74 and 199

Literacy 

- Did a read aloud using the book Stolen Words

- Students continued working on their Indigenous Perspective journal entries 

- Students continued working on their I Am From poems

Independent tasks

- Journal Entry Activity (click for direct access) 

- I AM FROM poem

- 20 minutes of silent reading

   

Science

Gr 7's independently worked on how to filter mechanical/heterogenous mixtures

Gr 8 learned how to calculate and solve for density, volume and mass

Independent Tasks

- Mechanical Mixtures worksheet package - 7's (click for direct access for resource)

- Calculating Density worksheet (8's)