Landforms Project

Students are working hard on their landform projects. After they are finished researching 3 landforms they will create 1 landform from a material of their choice.

Persuasive Writing

We have been learning about persuasive writing and together, we wrote a letter to Mr. Callow about improvements to the playground.

Landforms Learning Goal & Success Criteria

Persuasive Writing

I wrote a persuasive letter to the class about the importance of doing homework. My letter needs some work to become better. Can you help?

Landform Project

The students will choose 3 types of landforms and research them.
What is it?
Where can they be found?
How are they made?
They will then be asked to create one landform and present it to the class.

Landforms

Geography homework:

Geography: Landforms

We started a new unit in geography on landforms. For the next few weeks we will be talking about mountains, plains, valleys, canyons, plateaus and volcanoes.
Our learning goal is:
I can identify and describe the physical landforms of our Earth.

Vocabulary Words - May 28

Completed Medieval Times Posters

The class completed their medieval times posters and presented them to the class today. They had to explain the significance of each picture they had. Everyone did a great job!

Persuasive Writing

We have started a new unit on persuasive texts. Our learning goal for this unit is, "I can write a persuasive text." We looked at several persuasive texts today and the students identified commonalities between each essay. They then constructed success criteria for writing a persuasive text. Take a look!

Probability Review

REMINDER- No School on Monday, May 21

Homework - May 18

1. RAZ Kids
2. Medieval Poster due next Friday.
3. Procedural Writing.

Math Homework

Spinner Fun!

The students were experimenting with probability today. They coloured a spinner with three sections one colour and the fourth section a different colour. They figured that they should spin the three sections the same colour 75 out of 100 times. Did that happen?

Homework - May 16

1. RAZ Kids
2. Vocabulary Words
3. Medieval Times Poster: Show What You Know

Inferencing - Riding the Tiger

We read a story called, Riding the Tiger. It was about a boy named Danny who decides to take a ride on a tiger but when he decides to get off the tiger won't let him. The students are to work in groups to answer these questions:
1. Why did Danny decide to take a ride on the tiger?
2. What is the tiger a symbol of?
3. Why did the author decide to include these encounters:
a) The storekeeper
b) The police officer
c) Furdy
d) The homeless man

Homework - May 15

1. RAZ Kids
2. Vocabulary Words - due Friday
3. Grade 7's Geography Test tomorrow
4. Fit Week walk tomorrow. Wear comfortable shoes.

Probability Predictions vs. Actual Results

During math class today the students learned about predictions in comparison to the actual results. We did a Smartie experiment where the students guessed how many of each colour were in the box. Once they opened it, they were able to compare their predictions with the actual amount. After they graphed their results.

Vocabulary Words - May 14

Medieval Times: Show What You Know

Students are to create a Medieval Times poster including at least 6 different things they learned as well as a brief explanation of each. They will then be asked to present their poster to the class.

Grade 7 Geography: Mr. Seal

The grade 7 students who are with Mr. Seal for geography have a test tomorrow on Landforms. Below are the different kind of landforms to study.

Morning Message - Ali

Homework - May 11

1. RAZ kids
2. Math, question 1&2 (on blog)
3. Grade 8's: what is an idiom?
4. Don't forget to wish your mother a, "Happy Mother's Day," on Sunday.

Probability - Tree Diagrams

The students are learning how to solve probability word problems using tree diagrams.