Just a quick heads up. Our Walking Field trip will take place today in the afternoon, as the weather is cooperating.
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Dear Parents & Guardians, IMPORTANT: Grade 7 Open House at Sir John A Macdonald Junior High will be tonight at 5pm. We had the SJAM virtual presentation this morning. OPEN HOUSE INVITATION Please open the link below and click on the Join Meeting button on the document https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H_1Zsq8tYk2U_QeCVBCPqjYggfZGp_2Q/view?usp=sharing Upcoming Event: Walking Field Trip to West Nose Creek Park on Monday, February 28th. An email will go out via school messenger to all parents. Tomorrow is our monthly Pillars of Care Assembly. Below are our winners for this month! Care for Others - Amy - This young lady is coveted by her classmates during team and group work. If you have Amy in your group, you can count on a reliable partner that is always friendly and motivating to work with. Keep up the great work ethic, Amy! Care for Learning - Alia - She has been doing a great job in trying her best to improve her math and writing skills in the past few months. For instance, A
Dear Parents & Guardians, Welcome back after the Long Family Day Weekend. Important updates and reminders: Pillars of Care Assembly on Friday, February 25th. => Class Winners will be announced tomorrow on the Blog. Computation Quiz (3-weekly) this Thursday. Grade 7 Open House at Sir John A Macdonald will be on Thursday, February 24th. Our class will have their presentation in the morning and for parents there will be an online meeting at 5pm. OPEN HOUSE INVITATION Please open the link below and click on the Join Meeting button on the document https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H_1Zsq8tYk2U_QeCVBCPqjYggfZGp_2Q/view?usp=sharing Our Learning outcomes overview: Social Studies: Current Events => Black History Month research and presentation of a famous individual. This project is due on Friday. An emphasis is on digging deeper and creating a well-researched presentation about a Black Canadian or American person who made a difference. LA: Story Writing Skills In class students
Dear Parents & Guardians, Important updates and reminders: 1. There is no school on Thursday & Friday and on Monday February 21st. We are heading into the long Family Day Weekend with teachers conference on the 17th and 18th this week. 2. Today students had a combined Health and Science presentation provided by the Canadian Skin Cancer Foundation on Sun Safety. 3. Our Learning in class in a nutshell: LA: Story writing and Conflict Comics Students are creating a comic showing all 6 types of external in internal conflicts. e.g. person versus nature / person vs supernatural / person vs self Math: We started the new unit plotting points and transformation of shapes on a Cartesian Plane. Students use the x and y coordinates of points. Social Studies: As part of the Black History Month every student is researching a famous person who has made a significant contribution to society. Ask your child who they chose to research and create a presentation about. Science: In class we
Dear Parents & Guardians, Important updates and reminders: Next week is a short 3-day-week for students due to Teacher's Convention on Thursday and Friday (Feb 17 & 18) Scroll down for the grade 7 OPEN HOUSE INVITATION to Sir John A. Macdonald Jr. High. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H_1Zsq8tYk2U_QeCVBCPqjYggfZGp_2Q/view?usp=sharing On Tuesday, we will have a Sun Safety Presentation virtually from the Canadian Skin Cancer Foundation. This is part of our Sky Science unit. In class we had a ton of fun figuring out how to access the CBE's Minecraft Education edition. I will create a classroom world in which we can peacefully coexists and build up a town together. Today we explored the Minecraft map of Calgary downtown (around Olympic Plaza and the town hall). Minecraft Resources: https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/technology-for-learning/Documents/Minecraft-Student-Guide.pdf https://education.minecraft.net/wp-content/uploads/Minecraft-Education-Edition-Parents-Guide-1.pdf
Dear Parents & Guardians, Below you will find links to study notes for the Social Studies assessment on Thursday. We will also have a math check-in to see how students are doing in regards to the following skills in geometry: measuring and identifying types of angles calculating the value of missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals determining the area and perimeter of triangles Source: https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/types-of-triangles.html Study Notes for the Social Studies Test: Unit Overview: https://gradesix.mrpolsky.com/ewExternalFiles/Chapter%205%20Notes.pdf Vocabulary: https://gradesix.mrpolsky.com/ewExternalFiles/Chapter%205%20Vocabulary.pdf LA updates: Yesterday I sent home the marked novel study quizzes. This week we are focussing on story planning and writing entertaining and descriptive introductions and rising actions. Some of the strategies shown in class on how to begin a story are: - snapshop - onomatopoeia - character sketch - 5 senses description of
Dear Parents & Guardians, We are heading into a 5-day week with many learning goals and assessments. Please also scroll down to read the announcement form our. crosswalk patrol team. Reminders & Updates: 1. Social Studies Quiz on Local Government on Thursday. 2. Math assessment on types of angles and triangles on Friday. 3. Our school is participating in a reading competition "Reading: Give it a shot" once more. Similar to last year, we will track reading progress at school and at home. Please help us by filling in the tracking sheet that I am going to send home today. This sheet should travel to and from school daily during the time of the reading. For every 60 minutes read, students get rewarded with a special reading card. There are initially 24 cards to collect (and some additional ones for avid readers.) Parents – just a reminder that our patrollers are on duty each morning in rain, snow, and fine weather (We do not patrol on blue days). Could you please wai
Hello Parents & Guardians, As always, I will provide you with a quick overview of this week's updates, assessments, and learning goals. 1. Report Cards can be viewed using your MyCBE/ PowerSchool account. https://cbe.ab.ca/support/Pages/MyCBE-PowerSchool-Creating-Account.aspx 2. This week there will be a quick science check-in to see where students are at in regards to learning about the Lunar Cycle and the rotation and revolution of Earth. 3. Final Novel Study Quiz tomorrow on Alan Gratz's "REFUGEE" 4. On February 15th I have booked a virtual presentation about Sun Safety provided by the Canadian Skin Cancer society. 5. No spelling test this week => Short week. Our Learning goals in the major subject areas: 1. Science Students can identify the phases of the Moon and explain/ analyze the movement of Earth through space ( rotation - 1 turn around its own axis in 24 hours vs. revolution - 1 year movement on its orbit around the Sun) 2. Math Students are impr