Happy Holidays

A great final week of 2019.
In Hums, we have continued to read our novel, Sees Behind Trees. We did some acting in small groups and finished up our double entry journals.
In Math class, we were to be wrapping up our floorplans. We worked through a checklist of items to be completed. The students were thoroughly engaged in this project, and everyone has something to be proud of!
Have an excellent break and I will see everyone on Tuesday, January 7, 2020.

Power Up

We are continuing with tickets as instant feedback when students are working well. As we approach the Winter Break, it is really important students catch up on their work.

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December 9-13

In HUMS this week we have continued to read our novel and complete some reflections around our reading. The students are really enjoying "Sees Behind Trees" and the adventures experienced so far. We have talked about what it is like to be in transition between child and adult, as well as relationships during the journey.


In Math, we are finishing up our Area and Perimeter floor plan work. Students have enjoyed being entrepreneurs and creatively designing their houses.

We also said goodbye to Ms. Sas on Friday. We look forward to when she returns in the spring for her second practicum.

7-1 Science

This week, students did two labs on heat and temperature. They should now have handed in two graphs on hidden heat experiments from last week. On Thursday, December 12, 2019 students were introduced to precis writing (60 word maximum summary) of a piece of science writing. This time they had a choice of 4 short articles on science topics related to planet Earth. We were fortunate to have Ms. Nicholls (a literacy expert) and Ms. Cruikshank (an educational assistant) help students with this task. On Friday, November 13^th we expect Ms. Nicholls will be back and she may possibly be here next week as well. The goal is to help increase student’s science literacy and non-fiction reading skills while also increasing their understanding of the science curriculum. They do this by reading an interesting piece of science writing and making a summary of it. Students will be doing a number of precis writing assignments throughout the rest of the school year.

December 2-6

7-1 Science

Students created two line graphs that visually represent their findings of the previous two labs/experiments. They are exploring the specific heat capacity of water and what happens during the two phase changes from ice to water and from water to water vapor. Friday we did a third lab exploring the concepts of expansion and contraction.