Thursday, 9 October 2025
October 9, 2025
8C
- review Geography and science notes on the blog. There are new materials being posted (reasons for them to move to another country)
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
October 8, 2025
8C
- Math test tomorrow, Study and review pre-test questions please (1 hour)
- Terry Fox Run tomorrow afternoon. Cool, wear a light jacket and running shoes.
Identify https://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/
- the beginning (2), rising action (3), climax (2), falling action (2) and the ending (2) for Tale Tale Heart
- please do NOT RETELL the events
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
7D Maple Syrup
7D: need to complete maple syrup video and worksheet tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27YofsHxW58
1. The Sugar Maple Trees scale are r__________ly located in the tree trunk.
2. The buds of Red Maple Trees are located near the t__________.
3. The owner, Mr. Lepak used to drill 450 holes with his __________________. Nowadays, he uses e______________ drills.
4. Tapping involves drilling of t_________ holes on each Sugar Maple Tree.
5. The plastic tube is attached to the f___________ hole, which is located on t_______ of the next one. This plastic tube directs sap to the p__________
6. The metal spile is placed b_________ the plastic tube. It holds the metal pail to collect the sap.
7. Sap is ___________ in colour, and it flows like w_____________
8. On the first day of his collection, Mr. Lepak collected __________ galloons of sap. It was a great day!
[Kwok’s note: if we have a very cold and dry fall and winter, less sap will be produced by the trees]
9. Sap is then heat up and filter. The filter removes d________, d_________ and i_________
10. It is easier to filter the sap later on if we s___________ off the brown f__________
11. If the sap is not heat up to a fairly high temperature, bacteria will grow and it will turn the syrup into v______________. We must also maintain the heat by adding w___________ to the stove.
12. Which country did Mr. Lepak’s grandfather come from? ________________
13. The older spiles are made from c_______________. The modern day ones are made from a_______________
14. How many hours are needed to boil the sap so it turns into a good syrup? ______
15. “Sheeting” of syrup refers to _________________________________________________________
16. Hydrometer measures the d_____________ of the syrup when the white scale bounces up the cylinder.
17. When the syrup is poured out of the stove, it flows easily like water because it is ___________
18. When the syrup cools, it will t______________
19. What is the colour of the syrup? ______________
20. Mr. Lepak does not sell his syrup. What does he do it them?
a. pour syrup on everything and eat syrup everyday
b. use syrup to water his plants in the garden
c. donate the syrup to McDonalds so kids can enjoy their pancakes
d. he gives them away to good friends, neighbours and mini Kwok
21. The syrup you get from restaurants are most likely to be sugar and water. They are not the real maple syrup. The real thing is really expensive, about $20 per 500mL
October 7, 2024
Ten hybrid plants/fruits. Identify the parent plants and get a picture of the hybrid fruits/plants
https://www.marthastewart.com/hybrid-fruit-trees-to-grow-at-home-11804218
Meet the creature night at 6pm. Cookies will be waiting.
8C Math, step by step instructions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTIVgnIY_Yg4uZKkgQMAH_emBbt2hCb0FisH-v57rGA/edit?usp=sharing
Math Measurement test on Thursday. Try the pretest by yourself first.
https://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/
Monday, 6 October 2025
Geography Textbook Unit 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCcifAZmbgnmPSbAqM6A82qtt5HZI9XX/view?usp=drive_link
October 6, 2024
8C Geography
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NdedKKg85DviH1e0l1Nm_SRlQVTNg53rRexb5RcHbh8/edit?usp=sharing
Wake up, work. Identify these tropical fruits
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1InE59GeGtuWRgamFQXInRi4zC6cHuRk133mSksCzf1o/edit?usp=sharing
8C Math assignment review
