Tuesday, February 11th (Day 5)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

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

*Assessment folders went home on 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)

* 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 (dress appropriately)

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

- Reviewed the different types of patterns (repeating, growing, shrinking, linear, non-linear) and identified the pattern rules in number sequences and used them to help extend the sequence by 3 terms

- Learned about general (nth) term and coefficients to help create algebraic expressions to predict and extent patterns 

Independent Tasks

- Practice Questions (click for direct access)

*MathUp exercise questions

*Optional Problem of the Week enrichment questions

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

Summary Notes: Describing Linear Patterns using 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

-  Students had the period to complete their film reflection from yesterday's health class 

- Independent critical reading task to reinforce critical reading skills 

Independent Tasks

- Making connections through film (click for direct access)

- Critical Reading Task (click for direct access) 

Geography 

- Played games to test students' world geography knowledge

- Independent inquiry and note taking task 

Independent Tasks

- Independent Inquiry Task (click for direct access)