Announcements:
*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca
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*2.5 laps tomorrow!! Come prepared to run!
*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
Tuesday, September 30th - Number sense quiz
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: Large and Small Numbers
- Reviewed place value concepts (powers of ten) and how to represent large and small numbers using scientific notation
- Discussed strategies to convert numbers into scientific notation
Independent Tasks
- Math package questions (set 1-6)
Resources
Lesson Summary Notes
**You are encouraged to take 15 minutes each evening to review the summary notes and add any missed concepts to your math journals/notebooks
History: Creating Canada
- Reviewed key events in Canada's history between 1713-1790
- Students continued creating summary notes based on course material
Independent Tasks
- Lesson 1 (complete by the end of the day)
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)
Art: Aluminum Sculpture
- Learned how to use aluminum foil to create sculptures students will then mould into an action that represents their identity
Independent Tasks
- Aluminum Sculpture (all tasks were completed in class)
Science: Intro to cell theory and uni/multicellular organisms
- Brainstormed characteristics of living and non living things
- Learned the 3 postulates of Cell theory and compared/contrasted similarities and differences of unicellular and cellular organisms
Resources
Independent Tasks
- Use the classroom materials and resources to review today's concepts
- Review the 3 parts of cell theory and the differences between uni/multicellular organisms
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