May 31st, 2011

Grade 7FLA: Goal? Improving our use of conventions.
Task to be completed: Choose one of the 4 questions that I gave you. Then submit your ending by Friday, June 3rd.

Monday, May 30th

Grade 7ELA Make an Impression unit continued. Our work today focused on the proper use of conventions. Samples were viewed within the student book. Then students were given a choice of four topics before creating their own "Choose Your Own Ending" story. Special attention must be given to puntuation, capital letters etc. Two periods to work on these assignments today. * 10-15 minutes available tomorrow to finish up if need be.
Grade 7 Health unit: Working Together
Benefits of belonging to a group/team were discussed. Peer pressure was also an issue of interest. Students created webs outlining the gist of the chapter and what parts stood out for them.
Grade 8 Health: Presentations completed today on Drug Use and Abuse

Tuesday, May 24th 2011

Grade 7F LA: Finished the "Making an Impression" assignment and moving onto evaluating text patterns. Today we did a compare and contrast activity based on the article, Flying Under the Radar: A true story examining reality television programs and their impact on society.
Grade 7 Health: Today we had slideshow presentations on a variety of Health topics. Following presentations we will look further at career cruising and life learning.
Grade 8 Health: none today, gone on Science field trip with Ms. Wotton

Tuesday, May 17th to May 24th

Grade 7 LA We have begun the "Making an Impression" unit. Students are completing a paper on a person or place that has made an impression upon them.
(Who? What? When? Where? Why?)
Mr. Grady will be in for me this week if you have any questions.
Grade 8 Research projects as well as the Drug Use and Abuse Unit. We will be in the computer lab this week preparing for our Talk Shows.
Grade 7 Health: Finishing our research projects and then going to the Career Cruising report.
Thank you and hope to see you all again on Tuesday, May 24th.
Mrs. Thain

Friday May 13th

Language Arts: Assignments this week included:
a) the use of interesting transition words/sentence fluency
b) review and role of prefixes, suffixes and root words.
7FLA Transfering your learning: Cause and effect text patterns
Page 58 in the student text: Black Loyalists
synthesizing and interpreting the text. We looked at strategies to help students when they are reading non-fiction articles. Great discussion, and class participation during the reading. Thank you!
Grade 7 Health : Presentations/slideshows continued on individual Health topics. We used Prezi, Corel and Microsoft Power point! Wonderful see the variety in the work today!
Grade 8 Health: Intro to Drug Use and Abuse.

May 9th to 13th

Grade 7 LA: students will continue within the Send a Message unit. Outcomes being covered are the use of Transition words, suffixes, prefixes and root words. By Thursday students will be creating their own Free Write. Worst case scenario if band concert or school play take away one of your LA classes, date can be extended to Friday May 13th. . If time you may begin the Word Study booklet that I left for you.
Grade 7 and grade 8 Health students are creating slide shows this week, based on a Health topic of special interest to them. A minimum of 4 research questions must be completed. A rubric is provided. Highest possible score is 20/20. See rubric for more details. Be sure to include your Works Cited at the end of your slide show so as not to plagiarize.
2 computer lab periods have been booked so it works out to be 2 detailed answers and research per day to complete this task. Time on task is essential to be ready for presentations!!!Thank you and I look forward to see you all again soon.
Mrs. Thain :)

Grade 7F LA Tuesday, May 3rd

Analyzing Media Elements: Today we looked at strategies how to unpack the text to find meaning. We even searched for symbolism within the text forms. In teams students are choosing a message they wish to convey and then creating graphics to compliment their work.
We will continue this work tomorrow.

May 3rd, 2011

Grade 7ELA project due tomorrow!!! Thanks!
* time was given in class today to finish up, this should just be minor touch ups.