- Building math and science skills through weekly food preparation activities. A binder is kept in the classroom with copies of the recipes students have prepared.
- Following a recipe/procedure.
- Using measurements.
- Calculating half, double and yields.
- Timing.
- Nutritional content and value.
- Building math and science skills through weekly shop practice.
- Following a plan.
- using measurements
- Completing lessons on safety and proper tool operation.
- Designing and creating hall passes and bird houses.
In MATH We Have Been Working On:
- Completing our math minutes and keeping them organized in our duotangs.
- Multiplication statements: what do they mean? How do we read them? What do we use them for?
- Multiplication of single and two digit numbers.
- Weekly math Challenge book #1 with a focus on patterns and word problems.
- some of you have also worked on Numbers and Patterns
- Decimals to Percent
- Percent to Decimals
- Identifying and continuing basic patterns (number and symbol)
In SCIENCE We Have Been Working On:
- Safety and Skills.
- What do we have to do to be safe in a lab?
- What is the Scientific or experimental method?
- What Scientific language do we know and understand? What language do we need to know?
- question/problem
- hypothesis
- variable (controlled, manipulated, responding)
- method & materials
- observations & inferences
- evidence
- conclusions
Other Stuff:
- You all have file folders in the classroom to keep any thing you are working on. Please use them.
- Each of you has access to textbooks through Brightspace by d2l. The link is on the side.
- Mathletics - please stay tuned. Thank you for your patience.
Coming Up:
- Students will find, budget, get supplies for and prepare their own food item.
- Planning the re-landscape of the front of the school
- Grade 8's will start Mix and Flow of Matter. Grade 9's will start Biological Diversity
- Continuing with last year's visual journals!
- Terry Fox Run Friday September 27, 2019.
- Orange Shirt Day Monday September 30, 2019.
- Why do we recognize Orange Shirt Day?
- Wear an Orange Shirt!
