It's been a rainy Wednesday. This morning during Math students measured the Minecraft characters that they drew and began figuring out their surface area and volume. We introduced our final activity for our short story unit in Language. Working in two groups, students will be putting on a puppet show based on The Tell-Tale Heart! Today we figured out each group and which character they will each play. For Gym, students began learning the fundamentals of playing badminton and practised footwork drills. After lunch, students began learning about endangered species during Science. They will begin researching organizations that work to save endangered species around the world. We ended the day with a FLEX period, where students worked on any unfinished assignments. Homework: Math: Finish finding the surface area of the Minecraft character. Language: Create a voice for your character in the puppet show. History: Finish questions on the Expulsion of the Acadians.
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Where did the day go?! This morning during Math, students finished drawing themselves as a Minecraft character using isometric dot paper. Tomorrow they will measure each body part and calculate the surface area and volume of the entire figure. We had our Insanity Plea mock trial today for Language! Previously, students were broken into two groups (Prosecution or Defense), where each group treated The Tell-Tale Heart as a written confession and used the document to prove whether the Villain of the story has a mental illness. Today, members of each group came forward as lawyers to either defend the Villain of the story or prosecute him. Each group used quotes from the story to back up their arguments. In the end, it was the defence who won the trial, as they had more quotes and arguments. Afterwards during Art students finished their final drawing for our Odilon Redon charcoal assignment. After lunch, during History, students learned about the Expulsion of the Acadians by the British. We...
A great start to the week! This morning we did something a little different for Math. While still focusing on geometry, students were given an art/math activity. Students will draw themselves as a Minecraft character using isometric dot paper. This self-portrait must be done using 3d geometric shapes, like rectangles and squares. Once their self-portrait is completed, they will measure each body part and calculate the surface area and volume of the entire figure. Today was the last day for students to prepare their case for our Insanity Plea activity in Language. Each group is now preparing their case for our mock trial tomorrow! For Gym, students continued with their epic game of Boom City. After lunch, we continued with our questions about the "carrying capacity" of an ecosystem. We ended the day with FLEX where students worked on any unfinished assignments. Homework: Language: Make sure you have found a quote from The Tell-Tale Heart and two reasons for the Insanity Plea...
It was a busy Thursday for a fake Friday! This morning students continued in Math working on finding the volume of a rectangular prism. During Language, students worked in groups on their court cases against the Villain from The Tell-Tale Heart for the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is now preparing their case for our mock trial next Tuesday. For Art, students finished their rough sketches of everyday objects important to them for our Odilon Redon charcoal assignment. After lunch for History, students learn about the changing British attitude towards the Acadians, as they bring more soldiers and settlers to build Halifax and push out the Acadians. We finished the day with FLEX and played the ever-popular Werewolf game! Homework: Math: Finish questions 2-4 on pg. 63 in the Math workbook. Language: Make sure you have found a quote from The Tell-Tale Heart and two reasons for the Insanity Plea activity. History: Finish questions on the Changing...
It was a busy Wednesday! For Math this morning, students learned how to find the volume of a rectangular prism. The formula that students learned for finding the volume of a rectangular prism is V = length x width x height. During Language, students continued to work on their court cases against the Villain from The Tell-Tale Heart for the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is now preparing their case for our mock trial next week. For Gym, students continued with their epic game of Boom City. After lunch during Science, students learned about the "carrying capacity" of an environment and how the maximum population it can support is based on the food, water, and resources available. We ended the day with a FLEX period, where students got to work on any homework. Homework: Math: Finish question 1 on pg. 62 in the Math workbook. Language: Make sure you have found a quote from The Tell-Tale Heart and two reasons for the Insanity Plea activity. History: Finish ...
It was a good Tuesday for getting things done! We started this morning in Math with students continuing to find the surface area of a rectangular prism. During Language, students continued to work on their court cases against the Villain from The Tell-Tale Heart for the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is now preparing their case for our mock trial next week. For Art, students began creating sketches for their Odilon Redon-inspired charcoal drawings. Currently, students are sketching objects that are important to them, to transform them into their charcoal Symbolist art. After lunch, we continued with learning about the Colony of Acadia and how the British built a naval fortress in Halifax as a reaction to the French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton. We ended the day with a FLEX period where students got the opportunity to finish any homework. Homework: Math: Finish questions 3-5 on pg. 59-60 in the Math workbook. Language: Make sure you have found a quote from...
A great start to the week! This morning, during Math, students learned how to find the surface area of a rectangular prism and that the surface area is the sum of the areas of its rectangular faces. To find the surface area of a rectangular prism students used the following formula: SA = 2lh + 2lw + 2hw. During Language, students continued to work on their court cases against the Villain from The Tell-Tale Heart for the Insanity Plea activity. Broken into two groups (Prosecution or Defense), each group treats The Tell-Tale Heart as a written confession and uses the document to prove whether the Villain of the story has a mental illness. For Gym, students continued their epic game of Boom City. For Science, students learned about ecological succession and how this is the process by which different species and habitats in an area change over time. We ended the day with an environmental case study of how a volcanic eruption will cause an ecological succession. Homework: Math: ...
Happy Friday! This morning during Math we reviewed how to find the area and perimeter of both a rectangle and a square. During Language, students continued working in groups on the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is treating The Tell-Tale Heart as a written confession and uses the document to prove whether the Villain of the story has a mental illness. For Art, students continued to look at the different charcoal drawings by Odilon Redon and then chose one to replicate using charcoal. For History, we looked at the colony of Acadia and how the Treaty of Utrecht affected them, as their territory was given to the British. Ended the day with a FLEX period. Homework: Math: Finish questions 4-5 on pg. 57 in the Math workbook. Language: The Police Report is due. History: Finish questions on the Colony of Acadia.
It was a pretty good Thursday! We started the day with Math and learning how letters can be used to represent unknown dimensions of a figure are variables. Students then used this process to find the Area and Perimeter of rectangles and squares. During Language, students worked in their groups on the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is treating The Tell-Tale Heart as if it was a written confession and is using the document to prove whether the Villain of the story has a mental illness. Students continued their throwing and catching unit in Gym. For Science, students learned about ecological balance and how as humans we need to be more sustainable with our natural resources. We ended the day with French, where students continued working on their menus. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-3 on pg. 56 in the Math workbook. Language: The Police Report is now due. History: Finish the 3 questions on the Treaty of Utrecht.
It was a busy Wednesday with an Open House also happening at Heritage. For Math, this morning students worked on building objects from nets. Students learned that by looking at the net of a polyhedron you can find out more about its properties. For Language, students worked in their groups on the Insanity Plea activity. Each group is treating The Tell-Tale Heart as if it was a written confession and is using the document to prove whether the Villain of the story is insane. During Art, to coincide with our exploration of using charcoal, we learned about the Symbolist artist Odilon Redon and his " Noir " series of charcoal drawings, inspired by his dreams. After exploring many of his different drawings, students then sketched their favourite drawing to use for the next class. After lunch, we continued with our Shoebox Ecosystem presentations and watched NASA launch the Artemis 1 rocket to the moon. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-4 on pg. 52-54 in the Math workbook. Languag...
It's been a fun, but busy Tuesday! This morning during Math with continued with practising sketching solid objects. This time students had to take 3 linking cubes and draw a 3-D picture of them on isometric paper. We started a new activity for Language called The Tell-Tale Heart Insanity Plea. After giving the legal definition of insanity, students were split into two groups: Defense and Persecution. Each group will treat The Tell-Tale Heart as if it was a written confession and using the document will try to prove whether the Villain of the story is insane. For Gym, students played games like a frisbee version of bocce ball. During Science, we continued with our Shoebox Ecosystem presentations. We ended the day with French where students worked on finishing up their French menus. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-5 on pg. 50-51 in the Math workbook. Language: Finish the Police Report. It is due tomorrow. History: Finish the 3 questions on the Treaty of Utrecht.
A great start to the week! This morning during Math we continued practising how to sketch solids. Students demonstrated how to show a 3-dimensional object in 2 dimensions using isometric dot paper, as well as, drawing a pictorial diagram that gives the impression of a 3-dimensional shape because it's sketched using translation. For Language, students continued working on their Police Report for The Tell-Tale Heart. Afterwards, students had an introduction to using charcoal in Art, where students experimented with different types of charcoal and practised blending to give texture and form. During History, we learned about the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which saw the land rights of French colonies given over to Britain. We ended the day with a Shoebox Ecosystem presentation. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-4 on pg. 50-51 in the Math workbook. Language: Finish the Police Report. It is due tomorrow. History: Finish the 3 questions on the Treaty of Utrecht.
Happy Friday! It was a great end to the week! This morning during Math we continued our unit on Geometry and Measurement with students using square dot paper to sketch different views of a solid object. During our Language period, all of the Junior classes met in the gym for our Heritage Academy Remembrance Day Ceremony. Each grade made its own wreath of poppies that were presented during the ceremony. After the ceremony, we went to the park for Gym and played another epic game of Ultimate Frisbee. For Science, we continued our Shoebox Ecosystem presentations. Students did a fantastic job creating and presenting the shoebox models of their ecosystems. We ended the day with French, where students continued working on creating their own restaurant and menu. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-5 on pg. 46-48 in the Math workbook. Language: Finish question 4 of the Time Stoppers activity. You are to create a dialogue between the Old Man and the Villain. Within the dialogue, the Villain...
What a busy Thursday! This morning during Math we looked at how to identify a polyhedron and then learned how to draw a cube using isometric dot paper. For Language, students continued working on their police report for The Tell-Tale Heart . Students are currently answering questions on their graphic organizer to help them develop the details for their police report. We joined the grade 6 class during Art to work on a wreath for our Remembrance Day ceremony tomorrow at Heritage. Students were busy painting poppies using watercolours and then cutting them out for our wreath. We had a great class discussion about plagiarism and how to paraphrase and cite information. We ended the day with some fantastic Shoebox Ecosystem presentations. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-2 on pg. 44-45 in the Math workbook. Language: Finish question 4 of the Time Stoppers activity. You are to create a dialogue between the Old Man and the Villain. Within the dialogue, the Villain must reveal why he wants t...
It was a smooth Wednesday for getting work done! This morning during Math, students were introduced to our third unit on Geometry and Measurement. To begin, students were given different nets to cut and fold into different polyhedrons. We started our next creative writing activity for The Tell-Tale Heart . This time students had to imagine that they are one of the police officers who were called to the Old Man's house to investigate a disturbance that was reported, ultimately discovering the Old Man's dismembered body under the floorboards. Students are to write a police report about their visit to the Old Man's house and their interactions with the Villain of the story. For Gym, students went to the park for an epic game of Ultimate Frisbee. During Science, we looked at environmental impacts on biodiversity. We ended the day with French, where students continued working on creating their own restaurant and menu. Homework: Language: Finish question 4 of the Time Stoppers ac...
Another busy day at Heritage! We started the day with our Math test (Mission Impossible) on Ratio and Rate. After break, students worked on finishing their dialogue writing activity for The Tell-Tale Heart . For this activity, students had to write dialogue between the Old Man and the Villain, where the Villain needs to explain to the Old Man why he is going to murder him. For Art we finished off our mixed medium Haunted House activity. Students spent the period mixing colours and creating the background sky for their pictures. We continued with our Historical Figures presentations today in History. Ended the day with Flex, where students got to work on any homework. Homework: Math: Any students who missed the Math test today, study the Unit Review on Ratio and Rate. They will write the test tomorrow. Language: Finish question 4 of the Time Stoppers activity. You are to create dialogue between the Old Man and the Villain. Within the dialogue, the Villain must reveal why he wants to mur...
It was a busy Monday! We started the day with reviewing our unit on Ratio and Rates in Math. Students were given different questions from the unit on the board and had to answer them on their white boards. We continued working on our Time Stoppers creative writing activity. Students continue their activity of picking a scene from The Tell-Tale Heart and writing it from the old man's perspective. We will be starting our last Time Stoppers activity tomorrow. For Gym we went to the park and learned how to play Ultimate Frisbee! Today students learned the rules of the game and practiced some throwing drills. During Science, we modelled how to take our research and make it into a proper report paper. We ended the day with French, where students are creating their own restaurant and menu. Homework: Math: Study your unit review on Ratio and Rate for the Math test (Mission Impossible) tomorrow. Language: Finish question 3 of the Time Stoppers activity. You are to take a scene from The Te...
It's Friday! This morning we finished off our second unit review in Math on Ratio and Rate. Students are preparing to write their new "Mission Impossible" (math test) next Tuesday. For Language, students worked on their next creative response to the short story The Tell-Tale Heart . This time students had to choose a scene from the story that involved the old man and rewrite the scene from the old man's perspective. During Art we continue to work on our mixed medium haunted house activity. After a brief intro into using watercolour paints, students started to add watercolours to their haunted house pictures. After lunch, students presented their Historical Figures slideshows. We finished the day with a FLEX period where students had the opportunity to finish any homework. Homework: Math: Finish second unit review (handout) on Ratio and Rates. Math test will be on Tuesday, November 8 . Language: Finish questions 1-4 for the Time Stoppers creative writing activities. Hi...
It was a pretty productive Thursday! We started the day with working on our second unit review in Math on Ratio and Rate. Students will continue working on this unit review tomorrow. During Language, students worked on two creative writing activities based on what we learned about foreshadowing and flashbacks. First, students had to write a new beginning to The Tell-Tale Heart , where they had to create an event that causes the narrator of the story to have a flashback about the murder he committed. Second, students needed to continue the ending of the story by writing about what happened to the narrator after he revealed the old man's dismembered body under the floorboards. For Gym, students played frisbee at different centers trying to hit different targets. After lunch, students worked on a self assessment based on their different learning skills in class. These skills include responsibility, organization, independent work, collaboration, initiative and self-regulation. We ended...
Pretty good focus today for a Wednesday! This morning during Math students completed any unfinished questions from their first unit review on Ratio and Rate. For Language we went over the events of The Tell-Tale Heart and then learned about foreshadowing and flashbacks. Students worked in pairs and read over different passages to identify parts that show foreshadowing or flashbacks. During Art we continued working on our mix medium haunted house activity. Students spent the period drawing and colouring their haunted houses with crayon. We will be painting the scenery around the haunted houses with watercolours next Art class. Today was the last work period for the Historical Figures assignment in History. Students spent the period researching and putting together their slideshow presentations on their historical figure. Ended the day with a FLEX period where student finished up anything for homework. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-6 on pg. 41-42 in your Math workbook. History: Hist...
We had a class full of zombies post-Halloween, but we managed to get some work done! We started our sleepy morning in Math with our first unit review on Ratio and Rate. Students are preparing to get ready for our Unit Test next week. For Language, we finished drawing our visual definition for the word: MACABRE. We then listened/read our last short story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Afterwards, we discussed the events of the story. Students continued to practice throwing and catching a frisbee in Gym and then played a game of Kan-Jam. During Science we finished writing and drawing our observations for our bottle ecosystem experiment. We ended the day with French, where students practiced getting ready for their presentations. Homework: Math: Finish questions 1-6 on pg. 41-42 in your Math workbook. Language: Read or listen to The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. The drawing for the visual definition of the word MACABRE is due tomorrow. History: Historical Figure assignmen...