Thursday, April 18th (Day 4)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

* Grade 8 paper Diploma proofs were sent home last Friday. Please make any changes on the page (eg. removing or adding a middle name, spelling). If there are no changes, please still sign and return as soon as possible. 

* Students are STRONGLY encouraged to visit their nearest library and sign out the appropriate book(s) for their biography unit research. We will also visit our school library; however, resources are limited

Important Upcoming Dates:

Monday, April 22nd - Zentangle Art Due

Tuesday, April 23nd - Algebra Unit Task 

Next Week At A Glance 

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

- Math: Proportions & Fractions

- Literacy: Biography unit continued (class reading Born a Crime by Trevor Noah)

- Science: Heat and Water Filtration Group Culminating 

- History: Strand A wrap up

- Health: Healthy Eating summative

- Art: Zentangle silhouettes continued 

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

- Discussed proportions using the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages 

Independent Tasks

- Practice Questions: slides 1 and 2 only (click for direct access)

Literacy

- Continued working on biography tasks (selecting someone to research for their biography)

- Started reading our class novel Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

- Discussed the differences between explicit and implicit messages and made connections to the text

Independent Tasks

- Continue working through Tasks 1-4 (click for direct access)

- Visit town library for books (biography tasks)

- 20 minutes of silent reading 

Science 

- Introduced students' group culminating task where they are building a hot water filter system

Independent Tasks

- Continue researching different heat warming and water filtering systems (click for direct access)