Model for multiplying fractions

Multiplying Fractions

To do...Jan. 31

1. Math - subtraction questions from yesterday's worksheet
2. Healthy Eating Website due at end of the class on Thursday

Grade 8 Ottawa Trip - forms need to be turned in

To do...Jan. 30

1. Math - adding fraction questions from worksheets
2. Health - website due Thursday at end of class

Students vs. Staff Basketball Game - Thursday at lunch

$2 admission & $1 raffle ticket to play with staff

"YOUR VERSE"

Some inspiration before our Poetry Slam!

Fraction Talk - Which One Doesn't Belong?

Grade 8 Memory Book

code: p05mcd

To do...January 18

For Monday:

• rough draft of OBJECT monologue
• rough draft of SPOKEN WORD

Health Research - topic & BIG question (research begun)

Math - Quarter the Cross (completed, coloured & cut out)

Science Test - Gr. 7 - Monday

Science - Gr. 8: chart and questions due Monday

Gr. 7 History - "Causes of the War of 1812" due Tuesday

Grade 8 - High school registration and Transfer forms (due Jan. 26) 

Learning Skills

Spoken Word - Rubric & Prompts

Write a poem using the following start: “What good is a day…”’

Write a poem about the “ultimate” poem, or what a poem “should” do.

Write a poem concerning the “absence” of something. Consider the absence as a positive, or a negative.

Write a poem using, “how to…”. For example, “how to write a poem”, “how to break my heart”

In honor of Julia Child write a culinary poem celebrating food.

Write a poem using the title “Math Poem”

Write a poem using the title “What You Need to Survive”

Write a poem using the title “Results are In”

Write about your most or least favourite words.

Writing Prompts

• Write a love letter to your self-reflection
• Imagine writing from the opposite gender, what is life like
• Imagine being able to press the pause button on the world; you have 3 minutes, what would you tell the world?
• Write to a grade 2 student - life advice
• Who or what is a Canadian?
• What I wish my parents knew

Today we begin looking at fractions...

To do...January 12

1. Math Assessments - postponed until Monday
2. Gr. 7 History Project due Monday
3. Blog Post due Monday

To do...Jan. 11

1. Math Assessments - Friday (both grades)
2. Blog Post due Monday
3. Gr. 7 History Project due Monday (share with Mr. Congram on Google Classroom)
4. Gr. 8 Science A-H; 1-3 and bold words due Friday

To do Jan. 10

1. Gr. 8 Math - Pythagorean Problems (Quest on Friday)
2. Gr. 8 Science - Questions A-H due Thursday
3. Gr. 7 Math - Angle relationship questions with proofs (Quiz on Friday)
4. Gr. 7 History - Project due next Monday
5. Literacy - Blog Post due Monday

Grade 8 - high school registration forms and transfer forms due - January 26

To do...January 8

1. Gr. 7 Math - Similar figures worksheet
2. Gr. 8 Math - worksheet #7-10, 12
3. Gr. 7 History  Project due Monday, Jan. 15
4. New Year's Blogpost due Monday

New Year's Blogpost

Complete the following statements as you look ahead in 2018. 

A bad habit I'm going to break is...

A new skill I'd like to learn is...

A person I hope to be more like...

A good deed I'm going to do...

A place I'd like to visit...

A book I'd like to read...

A new food I'd like to try...

I'm going to do better at...

Add any other ideas you have.

Due Monday, January 15

Is it ever okay to steal?