Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. We have created a webpage that offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home for this week. The resources are meant as suggestions only. You may choose to use the links and activities as needed over the next few days as more long-term educational programming is considered.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
March 16th, 2020
The purpose of teacher blogs is to inform students and their families of day-to-day learning and activities throughout the school year. We will continue to communicate learning opportunities and will provide links to online learning resources through these blogs.
Important information related to all school decisions will continue to be emailed to parents/guardians and can also be found on the CBE website (www.cbe.ab.ca).
Math - We just finished our Algebra Unit with a Unit Final last Thursday. This week we were beginning our Pythagorean Theorem Unit with our focus on two chapters
3.1 Squares and Square Roots
3.3 Estimating Square Roots
Students can take a look at these concepts by accessing D2L, looking under Digital Resources and choosing our MathLinks 8 Textbook under Chapter 3
Science - We began our Eye Presentations a few weeks ago, students can ensure they have completed it and shared it with me. The instructions for this assignment are found below:
Types of Eyes Visual Presentation
We have learned that eyes in the animal kingdom come in two
varieties
Camera Eyes and
Compound Eyes
Create a presentation explaining how three distinct
organisms use their eyes (1 Camera, 1 Nocturnal Camera and 1 Compound) to
survive in their individual environments.
Be sure to include the advantages and disadvantages their eyes pose to
their survival. You will be sharing your
presentation to your teacher in order to create a slide presentation combining
the efforts of both 8-3 and 8-4
Please share your link to jariberdy@educbe.ca
We would have begun an animal adaptation assignment this week, but that is on hold due to today's unique issues.
Be Safe
Friday, October 11, 2019
October 10th
Math
Since converting between fractions, decimals and percents, we have worked on percent of a number problems. We have solved using numeric questions such as 35% of 40, and with word problems involving areas of provinces, commission on real estate, and sports related problems. We then learned about combining percents, using taxes, sales and discounted prices on items in stores. On Thursday(yesterday) we wrote our Percents Unit Final. We will begin Chapter 6, Fractional Operations when we return from our Fall Break.
Science
We have learned about the factors that effect solubility through classroom demos and our Fish in a Stream drawing. They are the type of solute, the type of solvent and temperature. We also discussed the factors affecting the rate of dissolving. They are size of the particles, stirring and temperature. We discussed the Particle Model of Matter and students have been working on an "Atomic Comic", Students have been creating their own comic in order to demonstrate their understanding of the particle model of matter and how temperature the different states are affected/changed.
When we return from break, students will be creating Cardboard Boats using only cardboard and duct tape. We will then test these boats as Bob Bahan Pool on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23rd. Students can work on their designs and plan on their builds over the break. Hope to see all our kids faces refreshed and prepared to work when we return.
Math
Since converting between fractions, decimals and percents, we have worked on percent of a number problems. We have solved using numeric questions such as 35% of 40, and with word problems involving areas of provinces, commission on real estate, and sports related problems. We then learned about combining percents, using taxes, sales and discounted prices on items in stores. On Thursday(yesterday) we wrote our Percents Unit Final. We will begin Chapter 6, Fractional Operations when we return from our Fall Break.
Science
We have learned about the factors that effect solubility through classroom demos and our Fish in a Stream drawing. They are the type of solute, the type of solvent and temperature. We also discussed the factors affecting the rate of dissolving. They are size of the particles, stirring and temperature. We discussed the Particle Model of Matter and students have been working on an "Atomic Comic", Students have been creating their own comic in order to demonstrate their understanding of the particle model of matter and how temperature the different states are affected/changed.
When we return from break, students will be creating Cardboard Boats using only cardboard and duct tape. We will then test these boats as Bob Bahan Pool on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23rd. Students can work on their designs and plan on their builds over the break. Hope to see all our kids faces refreshed and prepared to work when we return.
Friday, September 20, 2019
September 20th
Math
Over the last few weeks, we have completed our Ratios, Rates and Proportional Reasoning Unit. We had three assignments submitted and ended with three separate quizes for these concepts.
We have begun our Understanding Percent Unit, so far we have taken notes and worked on representing percentages on hundredths grids. We show percentages of less than 1%, more than 100% and fractional percents. We will continue next week with a small quiz using grids, along with converting between fractions, decimals and percents.
Science
We have completed our WHMIS and Lab Safety work in Science. We have been working on our Mix and Flow of Matter Unit. We have done a lab where students poured carbon dioxide onto a flame to demonstrate that gases are fluids. Students have created word walls with a specific scientific term, along with a lab on pure substances, mixtures, solutions, colloids and suspensions. This week, we worked on concentration and solubility, as well as vocabulary terms for next week.
Math
Over the last few weeks, we have completed our Ratios, Rates and Proportional Reasoning Unit. We had three assignments submitted and ended with three separate quizes for these concepts.
We have begun our Understanding Percent Unit, so far we have taken notes and worked on representing percentages on hundredths grids. We show percentages of less than 1%, more than 100% and fractional percents. We will continue next week with a small quiz using grids, along with converting between fractions, decimals and percents.
Science
We have completed our WHMIS and Lab Safety work in Science. We have been working on our Mix and Flow of Matter Unit. We have done a lab where students poured carbon dioxide onto a flame to demonstrate that gases are fluids. Students have created word walls with a specific scientific term, along with a lab on pure substances, mixtures, solutions, colloids and suspensions. This week, we worked on concentration and solubility, as well as vocabulary terms for next week.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
August 29th, 2019
Math - So far this year, we have worked on the following concepts.
Congruence - My Life Transformations where we moved a shape around the cartesian plane, each move related to an event in student's lives. We submitted this assignment.
We spent a day doing fun graphing of caricatures on cartesian planes as a review from last year.
We defined the Key Words for chapter 2, Rates, Ratios and Proportional Reasoning
We spent three days working on Ratios, and submitted Worksheet 2.1 for marks.
We reviewed the Divisibility Rules for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 & 10 and did a practice worksheet on it.
We have just spent the last two days working on Rates, including Unit Rates and Price Rates
That is where we currently stand, and will pick up on Rates on Tuesday, September 3rd
Science - So far this year, we have worked on the following concepts.
WHMIS symbols - we have learned the symbols used for materials and chemicals found in our homes and our places of work, including this school. We watched videos to reinforce these ideas.
Students chose a symbol to represent on their WHMIS posters, which were turned in for grades.
We went over lab safety rules, including a Minions PowerPoint, and a Zombie video. Students completed a small poster demonstrating the importance of following one on the 15 lab safety rules from our textbook. This will also be marked.
We have just learned the definitions for Procedure, Controlled Variables, Manipulated Variables and Conclusion. We have also been working on Procedure using our classroom radio, along with Qualitative and Quantitative Observations, Inference and Hypothesis, which brings us to today where students completed a short activity determining where statements made fell among these 4 concepts.
Hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend and I look forward to continuing where we left off on Tuesday
Math - So far this year, we have worked on the following concepts.
Congruence - My Life Transformations where we moved a shape around the cartesian plane, each move related to an event in student's lives. We submitted this assignment.
We spent a day doing fun graphing of caricatures on cartesian planes as a review from last year.
We defined the Key Words for chapter 2, Rates, Ratios and Proportional Reasoning
We spent three days working on Ratios, and submitted Worksheet 2.1 for marks.
We reviewed the Divisibility Rules for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 & 10 and did a practice worksheet on it.
We have just spent the last two days working on Rates, including Unit Rates and Price Rates
That is where we currently stand, and will pick up on Rates on Tuesday, September 3rd
Science - So far this year, we have worked on the following concepts.
WHMIS symbols - we have learned the symbols used for materials and chemicals found in our homes and our places of work, including this school. We watched videos to reinforce these ideas.
Students chose a symbol to represent on their WHMIS posters, which were turned in for grades.
We went over lab safety rules, including a Minions PowerPoint, and a Zombie video. Students completed a small poster demonstrating the importance of following one on the 15 lab safety rules from our textbook. This will also be marked.
We have just learned the definitions for Procedure, Controlled Variables, Manipulated Variables and Conclusion. We have also been working on Procedure using our classroom radio, along with Qualitative and Quantitative Observations, Inference and Hypothesis, which brings us to today where students completed a short activity determining where statements made fell among these 4 concepts.
Hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend and I look forward to continuing where we left off on Tuesday
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