Friday, October 11th (Day 3)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

*Hope you all have a safe, restful and enjoyable long weekend! :)

* Show your families the assessments in your Friday Folders and get them signed and bring to school on Tuesday

* High School Open House Info (click for more information)

Dr. G.W. Williams S.S. 

- Grade 8 Open house: Thursday, November 7th @ 6:30pm

Alexander Mackenzie S.S. 

- Arts Information Night: Tuesday, October 29th @ 7pm

* Check Graduating Class Google Classroom for Highschool and Open House updates. Keep your families updated! (code: 3dbunkx). 

Important Upcoming Dates:

Tuesday, October 15th - Push your Thinking Prompt due

Wednesday, October 16th - Aluminum Sculpture Due

                                             - Science quiz (cell theory and organelles)

                                             - History slide deck 4 due & exit ticket

Friday, October 18th - Number sense quiz

Friday October 25th - Novel must be completed!

This Week At A Glance 

* Please note, these are subject to change to support students' needs. Updated every Monday* 

- Math: Investment Stimulation & Number sense (scientific notation, perfect square roots & irrational/rational numbers)

- Literacy: Parts of Speech (nouns) & Novel Study

- Science: Virtual Lab simulation

- History: Confederation

- Health: Stress Management Strategies 

- Art: Who Am I Shadow Sculptures

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

- Worked on a group math task to 

Independent Tasks

- All tasks were completed in class today

- Practice questions  if incomplete (click for direct access)

Review Questions (#1-3)

Exercise Questions (#1-4)

Optional Enrichment Questions (#7-9)

- Review perfect squares between 1 and 144 

- Continue keeping an eye out for stock updates (check the news/stock trends)

- 10-15 minute review of today's concepts

Literacy

- Read their novels for reading comprehension unit

- Continued working on their Push your Thinking Prompts to foster critical thinking and detailed responses 

Independent Tasks

- Read required pages of novel (if you didn't get a chance to read today)

- Push your Thinking Prompts (click for direct access)

Science

- Continued working on their virtual lab

- Reviewed cell theory and cell organelle concepts 

Independent Tasks

- Virtual microscope lab (click for direct access) 

- Study for Wednesday's quiz on Cell theory and organelles (click for direct access)