Monday, 15 December 2014

December 15 to 18

7G
Math test on Tuesday
SS test on Wednesday
Sci quiz on Friday

STUDY.  HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Thursday, 11 December 2014

December 11, 2014

7G
Math: 1 sheet, Venn diagram on eleven geometric shapes

LA: book report due tomorrow

6E: bring paper airplanes

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

December 10, 2014

7G
Classify the students in 7G based on height and show size.  Complete Venn diagram

Work on book report

Study for SS test

6E: fold 5 paper airplanes, and test drive them at home

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

December 9, 2014

7G
Math: draw a pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon and decagon.  Find the sum of all the internal angles for each shape.  Use the bisecting method, determine the centre of gravity

LA: Book report due Friday.  Return Phantom Tollbooth on Friday

SS: STUDY for test: topographic map, 7 factors affect climate, landforms
Find Mohr scale of hardness, from 1 to 10 (3 = copper, 10 = diamond)

Monday, 8 December 2014

December 8, 2014

7G
Math: draw two obtuse triangles and find the centres of gravity of both shapes

SS: review bar-line combo graph.  Test tomorrow

LA: Book report due Friday

Thursday, 4 December 2014

December 4, 2014

7G
- Math practice test, 2 pages
- complete formal letter (to apply for a specialized high school).  Type and email to kwok
- SS: study, study, study
- LA: book report due December 12.  Please return book next week

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

December 2, 2014

7G
LA: edit letter, with vocabulary and sense of responsibility.  Type up and email to kwok tonight so I can mail them out
Math: bisect these angles: 45°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 150°, 170°, 30°, 200°, 230° (make sure the arc is about 5cm long so the margin of error is small
LA: Book report due December 12, 2014
SS test: Tuesday December 16 (at least two periods)
SS test (climate graph on Excel): Tuesday December 9 (line-bar combo graph, two axis, title, legend, scale on axis)
Math test: Wednesday December 17 (2 periods).  Bring calculator, ruler, protractor, compass

Monday, 1 December 2014

December 1, 2014

7G
LA: Informal letter, Dear Santa (or a friend, or to grandparents).  Draft, must follow format with address, date, greetings and content

Math: bisect each side of the triangles in the handout.  Do it with compass and pencil

Tests: SS (factors affect climate, rivers, delta, topographic map) and Math (area of triangles/parallelograms, trapezoids, tiles and cost, bisector of line and angles) test during the week of December 15.