To do list...

Grade 6:

• Math Checkpoint- Monday
• Math Quest- Thursday
• Speech Topic- Before March Break
• Art- Tuesday
• Independent Reading Book

Grade 7:

• Math Checkpoint- Monday
• Math Test- Thursday 
• Speech Topic- Before March Break
• Art- Tuesday
• Instructional Video- Tuesday
• Independent Reading Book

Have a good weekend

BK

CAN 10 000 HOURS of PRACTICE MAKE A GENIUS?

Can 10 000 hours of Practice make a Genius?

Grade 7 Lit Circle Book Selection

Speech Criteria

• Creative
• Personal Connection
• Engaging
• Humour
• 2-4 minutes (Aim for 3 minutes)
• Specific (Dinosaurs vs Tyrannosaurus Rex)

When I was a kid, I remember speaking about the following topics:

-Hockey Strike

-Grandparents

-Being Left-handed

*YOU MUST HAVE A TOPIC BEFORE MARCH BREAK

Grade 7 Lit Circle Books

The Rule of Three

Stargirl  (Guaranteed good book by Evy C)

Half Brother (Guaranteed by Mr. K, my usual opening Read A loud)

Wave

Freak the Mighty

To do list..

Grade 6:

• 2 Math handouts (Important, we will be reviewing these tomorrow)
• Weekly Blogpost- due tomorrow
• Art- due Tuesday (Stay in at recess if not finished)
• Music Playing Test- Monday
• Science Topic 8- due Tuesday
• History- Presentation complete by Friday

Grade 7:

• Math handout- tomorrow
• Instructional Video- Tuesday
• Weekly Blogpost- tomorrow
• Art- Tuesday
• Music Playing Test- Monday

Have a good night

BK

To do list..

Grade 6:

• Weekly Blogpost- due Friday
• Math Textbook Pg. 250, 251 #1, , 5
• Lit Circle Form- due tomorrow

Grade 7:

• Weekly Blogpost- due Friday
• Math Handout- tomorrow
• Instructional Video- Tuesday, March 4

Have a good night

Fact of the day

Doodle 4 Google

Student wins....

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Athlete/Event Presentation- tomorrow
• Math handouts- tomorrow (Order Pairs, Understanding the cartesian plane)
• Lit Circle Google Form- tomorrow

Grade 7:

• Instructional Video- Tuesday, March 4
• Math Problem on blog- tomorrow
• Athlete/Event Presentation- tomorrow

Have a good night

BK

Grade 7 Math

My wife Ashlee loves to shop at Aritzia (Clothing Store).  She purchased a new sweatshirt that cost $98 before tax.  The entire store had a 20% discount on all clothing.  How much did she pay for the sweatshirt after tax?

Lit Circle Book Choices

Grade 6 Literature Circle Books

For more information on the book, click on the book title:

 1.  WONDER

2.  WAVE

3.  Freak the Mighty

4.  The Breadwinner

5.  The Odds Get Even

6.  Hatchet

7.  The Royal Woods

8. Ghosts of the Titanic

9.  White Cave Escape

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Athlete/Event Google Site & Presentations- tomorrow
• Weekly Blogpost- due Friday
• French Rubrics (2)- tomorrow

Grade 7:

• Athlete/Event Google Site & Presentations- tomorrow
• Instructional Video (Video)- Tuesday, March 4 (Today we discussed the components of a good video)
• Weekly Blogpost- due Friday

Have a good night

BK

WATCH THIS!!!

WEEKLY BLOGPOST

"Some things make you remember where you were, and you don’t forget. Nothing forges those moments across our country like the Olympics." Bruce Arthur 

Choose 3 magical Sochi Olympic moments and explain why they are significant.

Due: Friday, Feb. 28

To do list....

Grade 6:

• Math Textbook Pg. 160 #1, 2, 3, 5, 6 (Review for Monday's Test)
• Google Site- due Monday
• Athlete/Event presentations- Tuesday (2-3 minutes long)

Grade 7:

• Google Site- due Monday
• Math Test- tomorrow 
• Athlete/Event Presentations- Monday
• Instructional Video Classroom- tomorrow
• Instructional Video Gym- Monday in PE

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Math Test- Monday (We will review/take up checkpoint tomorrow)
• Google Website/Athlete- Monday (Presentations will be Tuesday 2-3 minute max)
• Math Textbook- Pg. 149 #1, 3, 4, 5 Pg. 153 #2
• Math Test- Monday

 Grade 7:

• Instructional Video Live Presentations- Friday 
• Google Website/Athlete- Monday (Presentations will be Monday/Tuesday 2-3 minute max)
• Math Review Sheet- tomorrow
• Math Test- Friday  (Rate/Ratio)

Have a good night

BK

Literature Circles- Self Assessment

Grade 6 Math Test- Decimals

• Standard form, expanded and words
• Comparing and Ordering (including number line)
• Rounding
• Estimating Sums and Differences
• Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying & Dividing
• Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and 0.1, 0.01, 0.001
• Dividing by 10, 100, 1000

Important Dates

Grade 6:

• Athlete/Event Google Site- due Friday (Begin Presentations as well)
• Presentations- Friday and Monday (Presentations will be between 2-3 minutes maximum)
• Decimal Math Test- Friday

Grade 7:

• Instructional Video Presentations- Thursday & Friday
• Athlete/Event Google Site- due Monday (Presentations will start Monday)
• Rate/Ratio Math Test- Friday

I'm away at AREA basketball tomorrow

BK

Flappy Birds

Interview with the creator

Why we should believe him?

There's something going on

To do list..

Grade 6:

• Math Textbook (Multiplying & Dividing by 10, 100, 1000)
• Lit Circle Discussion- tomorrow
• Lit Circle Roles (All 5)- hand in tomorrow
• Google Site- Ongoing
• Report Card Signed
• Study for French Quiz- tomorrow

Grade 7:

• Math Handout (Left column)
• Instructional Video practice
• Google Site- Ongoing
• Lit Circle Discussion and Roles completed- tomorrow

Have a good night

BK

To do list..

Grade 6:

• Lit Circle Discussion- Friday (Must have all 5 roles completed and ready to be marked)
• Report Card signed- tomorrow
• Google Site- Ongoing
• French Numbers Quiz (50-100)- Friday

Grade 7:

• Lit Circle Discussion- Friday (Must have all 5 roles completed and ready to be marked)
• Report Card signed- tomorrow
• Google Site- Ongoing
• Instructional Video practise session tomorrow- (PRINT OUT SCRIPT)
• Math handout completed
• Math Checkpoint- signed
• Instructional Video Live Presentations- Thursday, Feb. 20 & Friday, Feb. 21
• Rate/Ratio Test- Thursday, Feb. 20 (This date may change)

Have a good night

BK

Tomorrow's 4 Corner Debate Recess Time......

Recess Time Rule Scrap goes Global

Tomorrow's 4 Corner Debate

"Should government funding be allocated strictly for medal contenders or to all athletes fairly, regardless of their world ranking?"

To do list..

Grade 6:

• Math Textbook pg. 130 & 131 #2 a-c (Round the number being subtracted) d-f (Round to the nearest tenth) , 5 , 8
• Math Textbook Pg. 135  #1, 5
• Olympic Athlete/Event Research finished- tomorrow

Grade 7:

• Olympic Athlete/Event Research finished- tomorrow
• Practise Instructional Video

Have a good night

BK

SIGNED RUBRICS

To do list..

Grade 6:

• Lit Circle discussion- tomorrow
• Olympic Athlete/Event- Google Site (Explore your site)
• Math Homework- Pg. 130 # 1 a-d (Round to the nearest whole number), e-g (Round to the nearest tenth), h-j (Round one number to nearest whole number) & 4

Grade 7:

• Lit Circle discussion- tomorrow
• Olympic Athlete/Event- Google Site (Explore your site)
• Math handout #1-4
• Math Checkpoint- tomorrow (Ratio's)
• Instructional Video Script rough copy- due tomorrow       
• Science Test- Wednesday
• French Vocab signed- tomorrow
• Inquiry Project Research

Math Problems- Decimals

Math Communication - for each image explain, using the math, the choice you would make if you were buying the product.

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Writing-in-role Monologue (Casket Scene)- due Monday
• Lit Circle #4- Tuesday
• Athlete/Event point form notes- due Tuesday
• Track your athlete

Grade 7:

• Lit Circle #4- Tuesday
• Instructional Video Rough Copy- Monday
• Athlete/Event point form notes- due Tuesday
• Math handout (2 problems)

Have a good weekend

BK

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Writing in Role "Casket" scene- We will work on this in Literacy tomorrow
• Math Pg. 127-128 #4 -10 (Rounding Decimals)
• Lit Circle #4- Tuesday
• Signed Rubrics

Grade 7:

• Signed Rubrics
• Lit Circle #4- Tuesday
• Math Handout #6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16
• Read text- tomorrow
• Instructional Video Rough copy- due Monday

Have a good night

BK

Signed Rubrics

Grade 6:

• Decimal Checkpoint
• How to survive.....
• Benchball
• Oliver's Game

Grade 7:

• Math Test
• Bench Ball or Bump
• Oliver's Game

Olympic Athlete

To do list..

• Lit Circle #3- tomorrow
• Object Monologue- (if you weren't at school today)
• T-Shirt Sales (Month of February)
• Boys' basketball game rescheduled for tomorrow @ Highview
• Athlete/Event- Continue working on point form notes

Have a good night

BK

Kids Go Global

Kids Go Global!!!

Grade 6 "Casket" Scene Writing-in-role Success Criteria

• Think from that person's or object's perspective
• Vocabulary has to connect to the perspective you're writing from
• Write in first person
• Ideas about what happened and your feelings
• Effects of this situation on the person/object

Literacy

• Present our object monologue to class
• Lit Circle preparation (Thursday's Lit Circle)
• doodle 4 google vote
• Grade 6- Writing in Role "Casket Scene"- due Friday
• Grade 7- Instructional Video Script rough copy- due Friday
• Point form notes on Athlete/Event

Doodle 4 Google Voting

doodle 4 google voting

Athlete Resources

Team Canada

To do list...

Grade 6:

• Lit Circle (Read and Lit Role)- Thursday
• Math Checkpoint- tomorrow
• Geometry test and mind map rubric signed
• Object Monologue- Tuesday and Wednesday
• Athlete Google Site- Ongoing

Grade 7:

• Lit Circle (Read and Lit Role)- Thursday
• Geometry Test back tomorrow and mind map rubric signed
• Object Monologue- Tuesday and Wednesday
• Instructional Video Rough copy- in class
• Athlete Google Site- Ongoing

Have a good night

BK

Superbowl Props Sheet