Thursday, February 27th (Day 1)

  Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

*Trip to the ROC tomorrow! Come to school dressed appropriately for outdoors and bring a lunch!

*Show your families the assessments that went home. Get them signed and returned asap :)

- Hydraulic Crane

- Systems in Action Quiz

- Transformation Quiz

*Show your families your Term 1 Reflection conference sheet and grad photo proofs! Please return your Term 1 Reflection sheets as soon as possible. 

*If you were absent for Grad photos, or want to retake your grad photos please click the link below for information on a studio retake

LINK FOR RETAKE (click for access to flyer)

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

Important Upcoming Dates:

Thursday, February 27th - Student voting in the Library (9:45am - 10:0am)

                                             - Global Settlement Patterns due at the end of the period 

Friday, February 28th - Intermediate trip to the ROC

Monday, March 3rd - Have science reading and response questions (7.1-7.3) completed for science 

Tuesday, March 4th - Winter concert (11:20am - 1pm)

Wednesday, March 5th - Biography good copy due at the beginning of class

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 Learning/Independent Tasks

Math: Monomials and Binomials

- Introduction to monomials, binomials and simplifying algebraic expressions by collecting like terms 

Independent Tasks

- Adding and Subtracting Monomials worksheet

Pg 1 #1 -7

Optional Enrichment Questions 

Adding and Subtracting Polynomials #1-3

Resources

What are polynomials?

Algebraic terms and expressions

Lesson Summary Notes

Lesson 1 Evaluating Expressions

**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: Biographies

-  Students continued working on task 4 of their biography assignment by using their gathered research to start writing their rough draft

Independent Tasks

- Biography Day 5 (click for direct access)

**don't forget to cite your sources as you write

Resources

MLA Citations

Geography: Global Settlement Patterns

- Work period for Global Settlement Patterns 

Independent Tasks

- Final day to complete and submit Global Settlement Patterns 

- Review concepts from Earth's Changing Population and write down the definitions from slides 4-8 in your notebooks

Resources

Earth's Changing Population