Hello parents and caregivers,
Here is an update on what is happening in class! Language Arts: Students are fully emerged in their Book Club. Please talk to your student about the book they are reading? How they are enjoying it? What the predominant themes are? How they are documenting information (character growth, inferencing predictions, word work, etc.). This activity is going really well so far! It will culminate in the students completing a literature review. I look forward to see what they produce. Social Studies: Students have a unit test on the Metis People, the various battles that they engaged in with the Canadian Government, and the creation of Manitoba. Following this we will be examining expansion to the West , how Canadian's have depended on and utilized our natural resources, and the construction of the CPR. Math: Students are hard at work on our linear expressions unit. This also covered input/output tables, graphing , and linear relations. From here we will be moving on to solving algebraic equations. The work on expressions will also be used in the Business Plans for the Entrepreneurial Fair. Science: We are currently working on the Planet Earth Unit. This one is my personal favourite! We have studies fluvial processes, incremental change in landforms, weathering, erosions, and deposition, and glacial activity. Students are currently developing their own demonstration or experiment to show one of the physical processes we have learned about. They will be following the scientific method to create this work. Other Information: -May 3rd is Hats On for Mental Health - This is a day of awareness about Mental Health issues in young adults. Students are encouraged to wear hats to show that this is something they think is important to talk about. -The Market (Entrepreneur Fair) is on May 16th. All community members are welcome to come between 5 and 7pm in the evening. 7A Classroom updates
Hello parents and caregivers! As usual, we have been very busy in class and outside of it with extracurricular activities. Please see below for a quick summary! Math In math we are simultaneously working on multiple units. For the Entrepreneurial Fair (EF) students created a survey, and analyzed the data results. This covers our central tendencies unit (mean, median, mode, outliers), as well as looking at survey bias, sampling types, and the differences between a census and a sample. We are also starting to work on algebraic expressions, moving into graphing linear expressions. Currently this involves the essential background information, and then the knowledge will be applied by the students creating expressions and equations to graph their projected profits and break-even points for their financial summary in the EF. This is a lot of hard work, but is a pretty practical way to teach the curriculum! Science We are working on the Planet Earth Unit in science right now. There will be a unit test on May 9th. This unit will focus on scientific diagramming skills, and hypothesis writing (in addition to the curricular content). Students will also be completing some model building and working on using a key to identify different types of rocks. Social Studies In Social Studies were are on the post-confederation part of the curriculum. We are currently learning about the Metis people, the Red River Uprising, and the Second Metis Uprising. Students are in groups of 3 creating a seminar on one of the uprisings. They will put together a hand-out for another group and lead a seminar-type discussion for their topic. The focus here is on academic conversation and dialogue. Language Arts Students have all completed their TED talks. They did a really excellent job on these! Please ask your child how they did! Today we started our final novel study of the year. Students are in small groups, participating in a "book club". Ask your child what book they are reading and the way the novel study is structured! Field Studies All important dates have been updated on the main webpage and on my webpage. There are still more trips to come, so stay posted! Science Fair Congratulations to the grade 7's who participated in the Calgary Youth Science Fair. Their engagement and commitment to this work was commendable. Please see the weekly message for more details about this! Camp Chief Hector I apologize about the delay sending home the paperwork. I am waiting on some final information from the Camp in order to submit the paperwork. It will be out very soon! Mayor's Environmental Expo A small group of grade 7's have taken the initiative to work on a Langevin Bike to School project. This is being supported by myself and Mr. Yeo, and we will be presenting at the Expo on June 6th. If you are able to come visit that day and see the display and the work the kids have done, that would be awesome! Stay tuned for more information about this great work! Grade 7 Celebration of Learning The grade 7 celebration of learning will be May 16th. There will be a portion of the day where this is set up, and then it will be open to parents and families from 5pm - 7pm that evening. Students will be setting up a booth to showcase their product/service for Langevin's very first Street Market! We hope everyone will be able to make it. We will send out formal invitations and more information as we get closer to the date. Thank you all for your continued support, Brandie |
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AuthorBrandie Ferrell and the students of 7A Archives
May 2018
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