To do...October 31

Grade 8s - we are visiting G. W. Williams Secondary School tomorrow. If you have not returned the permission form please bring it tomorrow!

Enjoy your night!

Pumpkin Time Bomb

Pumpkin Time Bomb [Act 1] - Updated from Jon Orr on Vimeo.

How many rubber bands will make the pumpkin explode?



Pumpkin Time Bomb [Act 3] from Jon Orr on Vimeo.

What measurements of the pumpkin changes how many rubber bands are used?

To do...October 30

1. Gr. 7 - p. 140 #5, 6, 7
2. Gr. 8 - p. 142 #3-5. 7
3. Gr. 7 History - Read p. 48-53 (complete questions on Google Classroom)
4. Gr. 8 History - Read p. 34- 37 (worksheet on either Irish or African American immigrants)

Halloween Hop tomorrow afternoon (costumes on at lunch)

• $3 admission charge or Pledge Form

Grade 8s - permission form signed and returned for trip to GW Williams S.S. on Wednesday. 

What do you notice? What do you know about the pattern?

To do...October 26

1. Math - worksheet (finding algebraic expressions)
2. Literacy Activities due Friday
3. Blog Post due tomorrow
4. History due Monday

Kettle Valley Trip tomorrow

• bring a litter-less lunch
• dress for the weather and to be active

Learning Skills

To do...Oct. 25

1. Blog Post due Friday
2. Math Checkpoint tomorrow - both grades
3. Math Homework - 4.1 & 4.2 Patterns
4. Science Test - Grade 8
5. Literacy Activities due Friday

To do...October 24

1. Gr. 7 Math - p. 277 #8, 9, 10 abc, 11
2. Gr. 8 Math - p. 132 #4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13
3. Checkpoint - Thursday
4. Blog Post due Friday
5. Sketchnote due tomorrow
6. Literacy Activities - completed for Friday (could be time in class)

Grade 8 Trip information tonight @ 7pm in the library

Math Problem

2,     5,    10, .........

a)  Draw the 4th term

b)  What is the Algebraic expression?

c)   What is the 60th term? 

To do...Oct. 23

1.  Gr. 7 History - complete worksheets: "Changing Relationships" & "Treaty of Portsmouth, 1793"
                           - be prepared to discuss: "The Treaty of Utrecht brought peace to North America"
2.  Gr. 8 History - complete dialogue about life in Canada East, 1850s


If have any questions about high school, fill in this form. They will answer them next week at Williams:

Williams Survey

To do...October 19

1. Signed Math Test & Long Walk to Water (last chance)
2. Math - worksheet 4.2
3. Blogpost - due Friday, Oct. 27

Monday - Photo Day

Tuesday - Ottawa Trip information night (7 pm in the library)

Friday - Intermediate Trip to Kettle Valley

Weekly Blog Post - due next Friday, Oct. 27

Learning Goal:  To creatively represent a favourite picture book, song, or poem’s Big idea & Theme on your blog.

Success Criteria:

• Clearly state the Theme (Author’s opinion)
• Provide text examples (Lyrics, pictures, words)
• Provide your own ideas
• Features of a digital text (images, audio, video, font, colour etc.)

*YOU WILL RECEIVE BOTH A WRITING/MEDIA MARK

To do...October 18

1. Math checkpoint tomorrow
2. 8.2 worksheet (both grades)
3. Math test and Long Walk signed by parents

Tomorrow is the Spirit Assembly! Wear your colour!!!

Minds On

Toothpick Problem

The rule to build a toothpick pattern is start with a square and add 3 toothpicks each time to make another square. Build the first 4 terms (or figures).

How many toothpicks do you need to build the 10th figure? 100th figure?

To do...Oct. 16

1. Weekly Blog Post - use feedback, make changes and hand in tomorrow
2. Math test and "A Long Walk to Water" assessment signed

Minds On

To do...Oct. 13

1. Weekly Blog Post due Monday
2. Write About Post completed and published
3. Gr. 7 History - Google Classroom assignment
4. Gr. 8 History - read p. 32/33 ("How does French Nationalism connect with language, religion and arts & culture?" Be prepared to share)

To do...Oct. 12

1. Weekly Blog Post due Monday
2. Gr. 8 History - worksheet on Reciprocity (p.24 textbook)
3. French Quiz - Monday 

Kettle Valley Trip available on School Cash Online

GRA - Slowchat Questions (week 2)

1.  So far, what do you like/don't like about the monster?

2.  When the monster calls again, why is Connor sarcastic and rude to him?

3.  Why does Connor think the Monster's first story is a terrible story and a cheat?

A Monster Calls

To do...Oct. 10

1. Math Test (tomorrow afternoon)
2. Literacy - A Monster Calls sketchnote complete to end of "Three Stories"
3. Science Test - Grade 7 tomorrow
4. Gr. 8 Science - p. 111-112 #2 and 5, one bold word
5. French Quiz is looming!

Weekly Blogpost - due Monday, October 16

Learning Goal: For this blogpost, you will bring a picture from home and then write a paragraph (s) describing the picture.  In your paragraph (s), you might write about the story behind the picture, what it makes you feel, or anything the picture brings to mind.  

Success Criteria:

• Thoughtful  Picture/Displayed on your blog
• Use of descriptive language/words
• Interesting/Engaging ideas
• Supporting details
• SPG

Here are a couple examples:

        This picture is of my father, Byron, at my sister’s wedding reception.  He casually sips a cup of his preferred beverage, black coffee.  My father is calm and relaxed on the day he hands his youngest daughter off to be married.  The man is unflappably levelheaded and cool; he’s not overcome with emotion by the significance of this day.  He’s a rock.  He’s my rock.  When I’ve behaved foolishly, when I’ve lost jobs, when I’ve been much less than I should have been, he’s reassured me with his calm demeanor.  When I’ve accomplished something noteworthy, when I’ve earned and maintained success, when I myself was married, I have been met with a simple, composed congratulatory smile.  He laughs often (he loves to joke), but I’ve never seen him cry, not once.  If I were to see him cry, I might crumble in panic.  He views the world through eyes that have seen it all:  good times, bad times, life, death, war, and peace.  The relaxed, impenetrable composure plainly written on his sixty-year-old face assures me that everything will work out somehow.

41 to 3, 52 to 7, 39 to 5—our losses were atrocious and humiliating.  They were terribly inept basketball players led by a dreadfully incompetent coach.  Somehow, I was roped into coaching the Blue Ridge Knights seventh grade girls basketball team.  “How difficult can this be?”  I reasoned.  We were undersized and uncoordinated. Passes errantly sailing out of bounds, balls dribbled off shoes, lay-up shots that inexplicably never even grazed the rim—we were a miserable sight. There were some games where I just wanted to cower under the scorers’ table and pretend this nightmare wasn’t happening.  But there was one thing we could do capably, foul! We were a scrappy bunch, scuffling for every loose ball, brawling for every rebound, clawing the ball out of the arms of baffled opponents.  I’ll never forget the sight of little Lauren Altman, all 4 ½ feet and 75 pounds of her, wrestling another team’s enormous, burly center to the ground.  She came out of the scuffle with a skinned knee, a bloody lip, a satisfied smile, and the ball.  That was my team!  We may have only won one game the entire season, but we fought like champions.

A Monster Calls - Slowchat

• Why does the monster tell Conor he WILL be afraid of him?  What is he going to do to Conor?
• Why does the monster want Conor?
• Do you think Connor is handling his mother's illness well? Why or why not?

Review - Challenge Questions

Tom has a collection of more than 24 coins. When he puts the coins in piles of 6, there are 3 coins remaining. When he puts the coins in piles of 8, there are 7 coins remaining. How many coins remain when he puts the coins in piles of 24?

The diagram shows a large rectangle composed of nine identical smaller rectangles. Both the length and breadth of each of these smaller rectangles are whole numbers of centimetres. Which of the following could be the area of the large rectangle?

a. 450 square centimetres
b. 1260 square centimetres
c. 1620 square centimetres




One less remainder A positive whole number less than 100 has remainder 2 when it is divided by 3, remainder 3 when it is divided by 4 and remainder 4 when it is divided by 5. What is its remainder when it is divided by 7?

A Monster Calls - Week 1 Reponse

Write About Login


At the end of the chapter “Three Stories,” the monster tells Conor, “You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O’Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of” (page 36). In a clearly written paragraph, explain what you think the monster means by this and make a prediction about how his words will impact the story.

To do...Oct.5

1. Gr. 7 Math - worksheet (front) & p. 24 #7, 8, 12, 16 & 19
2. Gr. 8 Math - worksheet - problems
3. Gr. 8 History - p. 22-24 record Opportunities & Challenges for the Atlantic colonies
4. Gr. 7 History - p. 22 - 29 (not 26-27) and complete chart on Google Classroom about values
5. Gr. 8 Science - chapter 4.5 - #2,3 and 10 glossary words

To do...October 4

1. Checkpoint tomorrow - same question that we worked on in class
2. Gr. 8s Math - find two numbers with a GCF= 12 and LCM=240 (can prime factorization help?)
3. Math Test - next Wed. Oct. 11 (seek help if you need it)

Liam Neeson reads "A Monster Calls"

GRA - Monster Calls

Global Read Aloud

Today we begin reading A Monster Calls. We are participating in the Global Read Aloud, find more information here.


Check out the locations of some of the classrooms taking part.

To do...October 2

1. Math - find the connection between LCM and prime factorization (use 4,6 and 12, 18 as possible examples)
2. History "John A. MacDonald" overdue