Friday, February 14th (Day 3)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

*POSTPONED: We are going snowshoeing for outdoor education. Please ensure you are dressed appropriately (hats, mitts, boots, snow pants!)

*Assessment folders went home on last Friday, please review, sign and return! 

- Infographic Assignment

- Strand B culminating

- Data quiz

*Course Selection: February 13th - 21st (confirm your courses with your parents/guardians and submit!)

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

Important Upcoming Dates:

Friday, February 14th - Class snowshoeing for outdoor education (POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK)

Friday, February 28th - Intermediate trip to the ROC

This Week At A Glance 

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

- Math: Identifying Pattern rules and using them to extend patterns 

- Literacy: The power of a story (reflecting on stories from different communities including biographies)

- Science: Intro to fluids

- Geography: Introduction to geography and settlement patterns

- Health: Mental Health and Screen time

- Art: Sketching

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

- Used their knowledge of general terms to solve for unknow term values and term numbers  

Independent Tasks

- Solving Equations Practice Questions (click for direct access)

Resources

https://courseware.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/27/assignments/531/1

Lesson Summary Notes

Lesson 1 Describing Linear Patterns using Rules

Lesson 2 Solving Equations Related to Pattern Rules 

**You are encouraged to take 15 minutes each evening to review the summary notes and add any missed concepts to your math journals/notebooks

Literacy

- Informal writing task related to snow day activities and long weekend plans

- Students read and respond to a variety of their classmates posts 

Independent Tasks

- Snow Day Shenanigans Padlet Post(click for direct access) 

*Please complete if you haven't already

*Reply to 3 of your classmates posts

Science

- Students engaged in some independent learning to review their knowledge of states of matter and prepare for our fluids unit

Independent Tasks

- Intro to fluids note taking task (click for direct access) 

Use the links provided to add the following concepts to your science notebooks

Link 1: 

- Fluids, viscosity and flow rate definitions

- Changes of states diagram

- Change of state, melting, vaporization, condensation, freezing and sublimation definitions

Link 2

- Five postulates of The Particle Theory of Matter

- States of matter diagram