March 31, 2017

7C
- complete Tessellation, return to Kwok after my EQAO assignments

- Open House PPT presentation
- learn to crop a few selfies, head shot only, paste it in a Powerpoint file; reduce the size of the selfie from 5Mb per photo to about 500Kb
- colour the background
- write three points about yourself since September (academic, friends, and extra curricular)
- focus on what you have done well, and how your friends support you
- learn to slide these selfies and text with special effects; no sound
- email Kwok when done

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Principal Rivers around the World

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001779.html

Plot them on a map when I am doing EQAO.  Label each river

March 29, 2017

7C
- Geography: compare between two cities/towns, using a table
- location, population, climate, main industries, why do you like it?, why don't yo like it?,  Where do you want to settle in a decade?
- Math: determine the motion(s) that move geometric shapes to their images.  Some of them may have more than one motion

March 28, 2017

7C
- Translation: Kwok's materials

March 27, 2017

7C
Math
- translation, text page 232 to 235
- motion geometry test on Monday April 3

Geography
- review seven factors that affect climate; quiz tomorrow

March 24, 2017

7C
- Math: reflection and rotation, page 3

- use a table to compare between solar and lunar eclipse
- these are the categories:
draw diagrams (locations of moon, earth sun)
when does it happen (time of the day/night)
what do you see
duration
how to watch safely?
when did it happen in the GTA?

March 23, 2017

7C
- Please sign Mono Cliff form, and return it by Monday.  Make cheque payable to Cummer Valley Middle School ($75) for the trip
- I would like to collect all the forms by mid week next week
- Please return medical forms tomorrow
- rotation assignments.  Please use geoboard to check answer

March 22, 2017

7C
- return medical forms as soon as possible
- Mrs. Mayers will be observing a math lesson tomorrow.  Please bring math folder and work that you have done in the past two months.  She may want to see them
- Line of symmetry: two images, show contrast [if original is black/white, colour your side; if original is colour, shade it with pencil or grey pencil crayons] , use mira to draw
- you should do two because I will record the one with higher mark

March 21, 2017

7C

- Transformational Geometry: make words with letters with vertical/horizontal flip lines.  Do as many as possible (record is >150, are you better than my class from last year?)

- review Mono Cliff trip package with parents.  Sign and return medical form.  Trip form should be ready tomorrow

- find a large (at least 15cm by 10cm) illustration with a line of symmetry.  Print it out and bring that to school

March 20, 2017

7C
- return zero day trip form tomorrow
- Math - motion geometry, reflection sheet.  Please use mira, pencil and ruler to draw images
- design six shapes at the bottom of the page so your peers can work on the reflected image tomorrow
- book report: download or borrow two books from Red Maple or Silver Birch nominees and read them; spend 45 mins reading the book tonight

March 9, 2017

7B
- cooling curves in Word, due Sunday before the March break- list controlled and measured variables as well

7C (next books report)
- Red Maple or Silver Birch nominees for 2017
- find TWO books you like.  Try to borrow them from the public library
- compare and determine which one is better
- I will teach you how to compare two items after March break
- start reading
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http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Forest_of_Reading/Awards_Nominees/Red_Maple_Fiction_Nominees.aspx
 http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Forest_of_Reading/Awards_Nominees/Silver_Birch_Fiction_Nominees.aspx

March 8, 2017

7A Science
- cooling curves with controlled/measured variables in a Word document is due Sunday March 12


7C Read: two more cases

- sign quiz; half the class did not read the articles from yesterday

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/07/two-more-cases-of-mumps-confirmed-both-at-toronto-schools.html

- read till up to age 15 (High school years)
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/immunization/static/immunization_tool.html

7C
- writing algebraic equations

RETURN ZERO DAY TRIP FORM BY FRIDAY: SCIENCE CENTRE
(I would like to collect all the forms and money before March break, as Kwok will be working at EQAO soon)

March 7, 2017

7C

RETURN ZERO DAY TRIP FORM BY FRIDAY: SCIENCE CENTRE
(I would like to collect all the forms and money before March break, as Kwok will be working at EQAO soon)

Read: Emerson, Manitoba

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ministers-visit-emerson-1.4010144

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/un-concerned-about-manitoba-migrants-1.4010665

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/890657347999

Mumps
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/03/five-more-mumps-cases-confirmed-in-toronto-bringing-total-to-22-this-year.html

https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2017/02/24/vancouver-canucks-say-one-player-has-mumps-other-players-showing-symptoms.html

Algebra homework

March 6, 2017

7C
- find five real life examples when linear equations are used
e.g. Pizza delivery

Total Cost = Delivery Charge + 10N (10 = price per pizza; N = number of pizza ordered)

Electricity usage

Total Cost = Delivery Charge + 0.20kwh (10 = price per pizza; kwh = electricity unit used)

Try: Mobile data usage, mortgage payment, airplane tickets (taxes is fixed no matter where you fly)

7C Science
- cooling curve on Excel, identify the controlled and measured variables

7A Science
- if you want to improve your mark, learn the flow chart tonight.  Quiz tomorrow (solid to liquid to gas, and all the processes related to the)

March 3, 2017

7B/7C
- sign sci test
- learn the flow chart of you want to improve mark (quiz on Monday)
- for those who receive an extension for the book report, please work on it this weekend

March 2, 2017

7C
Book report due tomoorw
Geography: Seven factors that affect climate, page 119 to 126 (read)

March 1, 2017

7A/7B/7C
Science test tomorrow!  Study, review and learn them.  Kwok's materials ONLY

7C
Geography: seven factors that affect climate
Math: Plot up the four linear equations in graphing book (2 positive slopes, 2 negative)

7C
- Study for FRENCH test please, we, we, we