Thursday June 21, 2007

LAST DAY OF CLASSES TODAY!!!

SCIENCE EXAM - be in your TA at 930 AM on FRIDAY!

Happy Studying

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Tuesday June 19, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Did some Review.....ELA part B tomorrow - 930AM go to TA.
• Bring a Pencil, Eraser, water bottle, quiet snack & a book to read (or your science textbook to study)!

Today in MATH we:

• Talked about our review.
• Any questions? Email, or drop by!

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Worked in groups on our review. 5 questions per unit (THIS IS A RATE!) - a total of 25 questions (5 unitsX5 questions per unit).
• Make sure you have answers to them....we will use them on THURSDAY!

Monday June 18, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Worked on our Social Review
• Worked on Catch the Wave
• Catch up - do you have it all handed in?

Today in MATH we:

• Did review on the board
• Review: Questions - mp7 p 248 & 249 ALL of the EVEN ones
• Review: Questions - mp7 p 378 & 379 Chapters 9, 10, 11 ALL
• MATH EXAM is next MONDAY

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Started our around the alphabet vocabulary.....what words do you remember?
• Did you read your summaries?
• What questions do you have?

Friday June 15, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Had a unit final on chapter 14.
• Got some more review questions.

Today in MATH we:

• Got some review questions: mp7 p 142-143 ALL of the EVEN ones.
• Come to class on MONDAY with your questions.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Finished & Handed in our Plant Booklets: Did you get a picture for the nitrogen cycle? Did you write about compost?
• The only page that should be blank is the greenout page
• Did observations on our beans.
• Wrote a one paragraph summary about what was happening to our beans.
• Do you think they will keep growing without soil?
• HOMEWORK: Read the 5 Summaries from each of the units we studied.
  

• • Plants for Food & Fibre

  Interactions & Ecosystems

  Planet Earth

  Heat & Temperature

  Structures & Forces

ALL THE REST:

• Exams start next week:

• Wednesday Jun 20: ELA part 2
• Friday June 22: SCIENCE
• Monday June 25: MATH
• Tuesday June 26: SOCIAL STUDIES (voices & visions)

• Are you Ready? How can you get ready?

• Make yourself a reasonable study schedule!
• Hey, What kind of bug is this?

Thursday June 14, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read from Peacekeepers.
• Don't forget you have a spelling test & a unit final tomorrow.

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed Circumference, Circles, Translations, Transformations, Rotations, & Symmetry. Do you know the difference between them?
• DO mp7 p 293 #1-10, mp7 p 295 #1-5, p 297 #1-8 DUE FRIDAY.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did an open book test on Plants for Food & Fibre.
• Looked at our beans....what is yours doing? We are on Day 11 of our bean observations.
• Handed in our Unit Review.
• Our booklets will be handed in TOMORROW!!!!! We will finish the nitrogen cyle, compost & green out in class.
• We need to calculate the RANGE of our data. How will we do that?

ALL THE REST:

• HAPPY STUDYING for EXAMS....You've worked hard this year and you're almost there!

Wednesday June 13, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read v&v p 325-550.
• Did think it through # 2
• Did jot notes on pgs 313-314, 317 & 327
• Returned our books to the library for bar coding...they will be back to study from for exams.
• Test on FRIDAY.

Today in MATH we:

• Did our geometry test.
• Read about Translations, Transformations, Rotations & lines of symmetry (mp7 pgs 292, 294, 296, 298).

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Checked our beans & made observations.
• Worked on our booklets - they are due on FRIDAY.
• Did review: Read sia7 p 169, did sia7 p172 #1-17
• Quiz THURSDAY!

ALL THE REST:

• Don't forget to bring back your waiver forms & bus forms if you have them.

Tuesday June 12, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read v&v up to page 324, did think it through #1 v&v pg 321.
• Do think it through v&v p324 a&b
• What is Active Citizenship?
• Had a spelling pretest
• Read from the Peacekeepers book

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed our homework.....geometry test tomorrow!
• Do you know the different types of angles? triangles?
• Remember your magic number is 180!
• Homework: Review worksheet.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Checked our Beans - whats going on with them.
• In our booklets we did the mean, median, and mode for ALL of the plant data we collected.
• Completed in our booklets the pages on Compost & the Nitrogen cycle, & Fertilizer (sia7 p146)

ALL THE REST:

• Exams are coming start your review!

Monday June 11, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read from v&v Ch 14, p310-318
• Did think ahead & think it through p 318 b&c
• Got our spelling words for the week
• Read from Peacekeepers

Today in MATH we:

• Worked on Triangles
• Reviewed our Homework
• There are 3 worksheets due tomorrow - triangles, angles of triangles, and quadrilaterals
• What is a quadrilateral?
• Quiz on WEDNESDAY.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Got our textbooks back!
• Checked our beans.
• Analysed our dandelion data. Graphs due on TUESDAY.
• Did the soil management part of our booklets.

ALL THE REST:

• Exams start next WEDNESDAY!
• Please come in for extra help if you need it....or if you just need a quiet place to study.

Friday June 8, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Did a spelling test.
• Did a humanities test.
• Read from Peacekeepers.
• Got a review for v&v chapters 1-3.

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed angles.
• Talked about SUPPLEMENTARY & COMPLEMENTARY angles - what is the difference?
• Talked about alternate interior angles, corresponding angles, co-interior angles, vertically opposite angles, & vertically adjacent angles....do you know what they are?
• Homework: Complementary & Supplementary angles worksheet, intersecting lines worksheet, Parallel lines and their angles worksheet. Due: MONDAY

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Did observations on our beans.
• Went outside and recorded data for 12 dandelions. How are you going to graph this data?
• The seeds & life cycle page of your booklets should be completed by MONDAY.

ALL THE REST:

• Almost at the end of the school year. Keep up the great work.
• Remember, when you focus in class, you have less homework at the end of the day!

Thursday June 7, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read from Peacekeepers.
• Went over the test we will be getting tomorrow - do you know what you need to learn?
• Looked at a website that had pictures of the great depression & the famous five.
• www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapepdressich.html

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed how to measure angles.
• How many degrees are in a circle?
• Do you know the different types of angles? How to name an angle?
• Due Friday - two worksheets: The joy of measuring & What do you call two spiders who just got married?
• Don't forget your protractors!

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Took observations of our beans. What is happening on day 3?
• Did an on-line soil activity in our booklets. Did you get all of the information you needed?
• Drew & labeled 9 different types of seeds.
• Drew a life cycle of a seed plant.
• Your textbooks will be back soon!

ALL THE REST:

• Today was the last day for CE/W3. Great job to those of you who made up your zeros!
• Bring your PROTRACTORS!

Wednesday June 6, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Read to the end of v&v chapter 13.
• Did a t-chart on positive & negative results of technology
• Started writing an opinion piece on the impact of technology (1 page).
• Read from Peacekeepers.

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed our definitions from Geometry.
• Did a worksheet on intersecting, perpendicular & parallel lines - Due Thursday.
• What are the differences between lines, rays, & line segments? What is the definition of an angle? A vertex?
• You need to bring a PROTRACTOR to class from now on.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Read sia7 sections 1.3 &1.4 and did all of the c&r.
• What are adaptations? Why do plants need them?
• Checked on our beans & made observations.
• Handed in our science textbooks so they can be barcoded in the library. Do not worry....you'll have them back soon!

ALL THE REST:

• We had a math question about this creature the other day....do you remember what it was?
• OPEN DAY for CE/W3 is TOMORROW!! Last chance to make up your zeros for this assignment.
• Don't forget your PROTRACTORS!!

Tuesday June 5, 2007

SORRY!! I totally Forgot yesterday!

In HUMANITIES we:

• Read & did notes v&v - pgs 296-303.
• How will you learn this information?
• Made a Technology Time Line
• Think it Through v&v p299 #1&2

In MATH we:

• Did a quiz on equations - are you comfortable working with them?
• Started working on Geometry - Do you understand the Vocabulary?
• Get Set Worksheet Due Wednesday.

In SCIENCE we:

• Did a quiz - how well do you follow instructions?
• Reviewed Osmosis & Diffusion.
• Drew a plant diagram in our booklets - do you know all the structures & their functions?

Monday June 4, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Did our STAR reading test.
• Got our 10 words for spelling test #21`- do you know what they all mean?
• Read v&v p293

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed our homework from Friday - Quiz tomorrow.
• How do we solve for "a number?"
• Remember to read the question CAREFULLY.
• Homework: mp7 p246 #2-42 Even, p247 #1-3.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• "planted" our lima beans or kidney beans. Do you think they'll grow? Why or why not.
• What is the difference between OSMOSIS & DIFFUSION?
• What is a HYPOTHESIS?
• Homework: Read sia7 p 109-115, do c&r p115 #1-5.

All The Rest:

• FOCUS there are only 2 weeks left to change your marks.

Friday June 1, 2007

Today in HUMANITIES we:

• Did the Edmonton public spelling test.

Today in MATH we:

• Reviewed equations & problem solving.
• Remember to show your work. You might need to use several steps.
• Homework: mp7 p244 #2-68 EVEN, p245 #70-76 EVEN.

Today in SCIENCE we:

• Reviewed the difference between DIFFUSION & OSMOSIS.
• HOMEWORK: 10 examples of diffusion & 10 examples of osmosis.

ALL THE REST:

• MONDAY at LUNCH & AFTER SCHOOL - MATH. There will be a quiz on TUESDAY so make SURE you UNDERSTAND problem solving & working with equations.
• CE/W3 - We are nearing the end, & there will be some open days, be sure you know what you need to do.