Thursday, September 25th (Day 3)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

*Get your science quizzes signed and return your Friday Folders on Monday!

*High School Open House Dates: 

- Bill Crothers: Thursday, September 25th @ 7pm

- G.W. Williams (IB): Thursday, October 16th @ 7pm

- G.W. Williams: Thursday, November 6th @ 6:30pm

- Alexander Mackenzie: Thursday, November 27th @ 6:30pm

Important Upcoming Dates:

Thursday, September 25th - Meet the Staff Night @ 5:30pm

Friday, September 26th - PA Day

Monday, September 29th - Who Am I? Presentations 

Tuesday, September 30th - Number sense quiz

                                             - Science task due at the end of the period

Wednesday, October 1st - Aluminum sculpture art due

This Week At A Glance 

- Math: Representing Large and Small Numbers through Scientific Notation

- Literacy: Who Am I? Culminating

- Science: Cell Theory

- History: Intro to Creating Canada 

- Health: Mental Health and Stress

- Art: Aluminum Sculptures

Today's Learning/Independent Tasks

Math: Calculating and Estimating Square Roots

- Explored square root concepts by using mathematical reasoning to prove/disprove conjectures

Independent Tasks

- Worksheet questions

Exercise #1-6

Enrichment #7-9

Resources

- Scientific Notation Practice

- Math is Fun: Scientific Notation

- Square Roots

Lesson Summary Notes

- Multiplying and Dividing by powers of 10

- Interpreting very large and very small numbers

- Scientific notation

- Calculating and estimating square roots 

- Comparing and ordering real numbers

**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: Who Am I Culminating Task

- Students used the period to work on their culminating tasks which requires them to summarize all their findings regarding this personality, learning styles, interests etc...

Independent Tasks

- Culminating Task (you will have time to work on this during each literacy period)

Science: Unicellular and Multicellular Organisms

- Reviewed the characteristics of living things (MR. GREEN) along with the three parts of cell theory

- Explored the characteristics of uni and multicellular organisms

Independent Tasks

- Use the resources to review the scientists contributions and Cell Theory

- Uni/Multicellular organism independent task (you will have next class to continue working on it)