Humanities

We have all been working on learning about British Conquest of North America. This week we have reviewed the Acadian Deportation and the Seven Year's War. We talked about the battle on the plains of Abraham as a crucial battle in this war that decided who would control North America.

701 - Homework due this Thursday --> booklet questions #8-15

Science Stations

In science class we are currently working our way through a 4 day Measuring Temperature Stations activity.  These stations need to be fully completed by March 18.  To ensure students don't leave too much work right until the very end they are strongly encouraged to finish the station they were working on that day as homework if it was not completed in class.

March 11, 2015--Math

Please sign and return the math test on fractions.

March 10 Homework

Math

Students in 7-1 need to complete pages 242 #5-8 for homework.

Science 

All students need to complete the good copy of their particle analogy.

Make up your own analogy to show that you understand the difference between particles of a substance which is solid or liquid or gas.  Come up with your own analogy and make a picture, diagram, or image of some sort to accompany each of the three descriptions.  Do your work on an unlined piece of paper, be neat and use colour. 

Example

Particles of a substance in the solid state are like students sitting in their desks, they can move around a bit in their seat but not stand up and move to a different place in the room.  The amount of space they take up in the room is fixed.

Particles of a substance in the liquid state are like students sitting on the floor, they can slide around a bit on their bums but are still pretty close to each other and don’t move too fast.

Particles of a substance in the solid state are like students walking around the room, they move quickly and can create large spaces between them.  The student will spread out to fill up the whole room  

Humanities

This week we started to look at the competition between the British and French that was fueled by the Fur Trade in North America. We will start to look at how Britain was able to take control of much of North America and how this affected the many other groups in North America at the time (French, Acadian, Metis, First Nations).

We will also be starting a short story unit next week with a focus on story elements (plot, main idea, characters, conflict...)

Humanities

READING LOGS: 
Students have been asked to read 2 hours a week at home for the last 4 weeks. Each time they read they were required to summarize what they read and have a parent sign their reading log. On Monday, March 2nd, reading logs, plus 6 questions pertaining to their novel, were due for assessment. 
Many students have not completed or submitted this work! Monday, March 9th will be the only extension date for this task. 

Any student who has not submitted this assignment next Monday, will be asked to stay after school each afternoon until it has been completed and submitted.


FIELD TRIP FORMS:
On Wednesday, March 18th all grade 7's are heading to Drumheller to the Tyrell Museum. Please return field trip forms and and fees by this Friday, March 6th.

March 3

Reminder: 
- Reading Logs for the month of February are now DUE! Please finish up the summaries and questions and submit them!

- Plant Project journals are due as well! Please submit those!



Today in class, students worked on learning how to discover main idea when reading today. They started to listen to a story from an Aboriginal boys perspective during the Fur Trade and they picked out the main points of each section to draw. We will continue this tomorrow. 

Math
Tonight student's have a chapter review for homework.  The review can be found on pages 222 and 223 of the MathLinks 7 textbook.  Tomorrow there will be a math test on the following skills:
- Divisibility rules
- Equivalent fractions
- Adding and Subtracting Fractions with common denominators.