Hello everyone,
It's hard to believe that it will be June tomorrow! It has been such a busy year, and we will have so much in front of us over the next four weeks. First of all, a big thank you to all of you who supported your children and everyone in Grade 7 for the Entrepreneurial Fair. We raised $2428.25 because of your contributions. However, the comments we recieved that were the most rewarding were about how the students learned so much. We applied pretty difficult (but practical) math to our work, and the students did a lot of functional writing. It covered a significant portion of our curriculum, and hopefully it was a fun way of doing it. The last two weeks have been so busy with the Entrepreneurial Fair and then Camp Chief Hector, that this week was all about getting back into routine and tying up loose ends. Here is where we are at in the curriculum front: Language Arts Students have completed their Book Club books and are writing their final book club reviews. This is due this Friday. After that we are going to do another short story where we focus on mystery writing. This will compliment the Sherlock Holmes play at Vertigo that we are going to. Social Studies Final products for our CPR activity were completed today. We will me moving on to more modern issues in Canadian history, and examining the role that relationships with First Nations communities have in today's government and society. Math The students have been working very hard on Algebra. This is a very fun unit because it is easy to meet students at all different levels of understanding. Students have been working on problems involving substituting values into variables, single-step algebraic equations, and writing equations from word problems. We will have a unit test on this next Tuesday. After that we will be working on review and a final project. We have completed the curriculum so we will have time for a larger summative project. This is going to involve the students creating their own locked room, using a variety of questions on topics we have learned through out the year. It should be a lot of fun! Science For science we are completing an activity on plate tectonics and mountain building. Once this is finished, we will spend the rest of the year working on the plant unit and spending as much time outside in the naturalization area. This is the best time of the year to be working on it! It gives us a lot of freedom for sketching and for practicing observations. That is all for now! Brandie Comments are closed.
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AuthorBrandie Ferrell and the students of 7A Archives
May 2018
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