Thursday, February 1 (Day 3)

 

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

* 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

Friday, February 2nd - PA Day

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:  Transformations review and Dilations

- Literacy: Race & Identity

- Science:  Fluids & Pure Substances and mixtures continued

- Geography: Starting History unit 

- Health: Healthy eating continued

- Art: Mosaic Art continued

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

Learning Goal: We are learning to perform rotations using mapping rules 

- Students continued 

- Explored how to perform 90, 180 and 270 degree rotations about a vertex and the origin (counterclockwise and clockwise)

Independent tasks

- Lesson 6 Graphing Under Rotations (click direct access)

Exercise questions #4, 6 and 7 (#8 as a challenge)

- Worksheet package, pages 70, 72, 205

Literacy 

- Did a read aloud using the book I Am Not a Number 

- Students continued working on their Indigenous Perspective journal entries 

Independent tasks

- Journal Entry Activity (click for direct access) 

- I AM FROM poem

- 20 minutes of silent reading

   

Geography

- FINAL Culminating Assignment work period (due today)

Independent Tasks

- Culminating assignment (click for direct access)