June 12

Substitute Agenda June 12th

Columbus Centre trip - enjoy and be safe, no negative reports ;)

Upon your return, work quietly on the following:

Nelson Literacy

7a text on front shelf

Review narrative elements pg.94

Read text Lose Now Pay Later pgs.95-103

After reading, identify the 5 narrative elements:

-characters (protagonist, antagonist, supporting)

-setting

-plot (main conflict)

-theme (author's message/lesson to be learned)

-perspective

Math U12 probability

pg.411 Do You Remember? review

#1-7

Continue working with on your PlayDay stations, specifically:

-station name

-station sign (post completed ones on front cork strip)

-score card that can be quickly filled when teams approach your station

-any rules/instructions for your station

-list of any necessary equipment

-location of your station on tentative map

-station master roles

Message for Anthony Tran:

take your form down to Ms Pisani before going on trip - remind her it needs to go out in courier today to Mr Mazzucco.

Summer Enrichment Program Last Call

Dear Parents,

Should you be interested in enrolling your son/daughter in our school board's summer literacy & numeracy enrichment program, then please note that all forms are due this Friday June 7th.  

If you need additional copies, feel free to contact me at stsimongr7@gmail.com and I will forward them to you.

If you are remaining in the city and your child has been struggling in the level 2 range and/or would benefit from further review in preparation for Grade 8, then I would highly recommend this enrichment program.

Kind regards,
Mr. N. Di Croce

June 4

Surface Area

June 3

June 3rd Substitute Agenda

Be respectful and cooperative, no negative reports.

8.45-9.30
Instrumental Music

9.35-9.50
Recess

9.55-10.25
French

10.30-11.35
Continue with CAT Testing
Reading & Math should be fully completed from last week.
Move onto the next section following Reading.
Student booklets/answer sheets on bottom front shelf behind Smartboard.
If students need extra time, give them an additional 1/2 hr after Italian.

11.35-12.20
Lunch

12.20-12.35
JK/SK Duty

12.35-1.05
Italian

1.05-1.40
Math Surface Area/Volume
Text pg.383 1-7 Complete with students on board.
Assign Text pg.387 6-11
Assign Workbook 11.1

1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-2.30
Continue with math
Uncompleted math is for homework.

2.45-3.30
Gym Softball

May 30

May 28

3D Geometry

math text pg.377
questions 1, 4, 8 
to be submitted tomorrow on both graph/isometric paper provided.

May 27

Substitute Agenda

8.45-9.30
Instrumental music

9.35-9.50
Recess

9.55-10.25
French

10.25-11.35

11.35-12.20
Lunch

12.20-12.35
JK/SK yard duty

12.35-1.05
Italian

1.05-1.40


1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-3.30


Students are to continue working on any of the following tasks; some are still outstanding and remain to be emailed:

• novel study vocab + questions .doc
• novel study quotes .doc
• novel study summaries .doc
• science ergonomics questions .doc
• science ergonomics table .doc
• science efficient building materials .doc
• infomercial video .mmv
• how-to video .wmv
• history prezi link

Others are to continue working on unit 10 math (after mid chapter) workbook pages and corresponding practicing questions in textbook.  They are to also continue working on the math investigation from the previous blog entry in which they are to determine which prism type(s) could be a possible efficient packaging solution in a box with little or no gaps in between.  Students: use any media of your choice to illustrate possible solutions to the problem including diagrams/calculations on simple chart paper.

May 24

May 24

Gr 7s I'm at St. Basil's for a workshop.  Work cooperatively and respectfully with your substitute teacher.  No negative reports please.  

Recess 9.35-9.50

French 9.50-10.25

Lunch 11.35-12.35

Italian 12.35-1.05

7s, today you will temporarily put aside your novel study, science, 3D views,  and how-to video tasks to focus on the math investigation below.  

Math Investigation text 10.1 pg.348-9

  

Goals:

• to solve a problem collaboratively and creatively

• to communicate strategies and solutions in a YouTube video or Prezi

• to build 3D prisms (i.e. triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, hexagonal) from nets 

• to design efficient packaging that will pack tightly into a standard size box (i.e. 40cm x 33cm x 26cm) with no gaps between packages

• to determine what geometric properties (i.e. faces, edges, vertices, angles) make a difference when trying to pack with no wasted space between packages

The project managers below are to lead their team to success by choosing 2-3 co-workers that will help him/her fulfill the necessary responsibilities to solve the geometric problem:

• Team Pasqua
• Team Noce
• Team Barranca
• Team Sicari
• Team Louvado
• Team De Buglio
• Team Sampogna
• Team Wiggan

After reading through the investigation, brainstorm the approaches your team can take to arrive at a solution in an efficient and logical manner.

Your team is to also identify 3 success criteria that you all will use to evaluate your solution to the problem:

Our Success Criteria	Level 1 Limited requires further proof	Level 2 Some adequate proof	Level 3 Good proof	Level 4 Excellent proof

Do not share your strategies with neighboring teams.  It will be interesting to see the different approaches each group takes to solve the problem.

Use any class resources (paper, printers, netbooks) if any additional supplies are needed Gabby & Franny are to go to the storage room.
**you may also want to check out smart notebook gallery essentials on your netbook or blog link to library of virtual manipulatives**

May 23

Substitute Agenda

Karen attendance.

8.45-9.30  
Instrumental Music

9.35-9.50
Recess
northwest intermediate yard duty

9.55-10.25
French

10.25-11.35

Novel study:  read through the bullets below then write a 1 paragraph summary for chapter 16 identifying the key events/hightlights & what you think the impact it has on the plot development.

Science: text pg.329 1,2.  text pg.334 1,3,5. you may work with only 1 partner and email the task.

11.35-12.35
Lunch

12.35-1.05
Italian

1.05-1.40
Math
text pg.356 6b, pg.357 7b, 10c.
text pg.362 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
triangle paper & grid paper on printer

1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-3.00
wrap up science & math.  


3.00-3.35
softball



Chapter 16 The Alchemyst

• Perenelle is imprisoned in a tiny, windowless room. 
• She expands her hearing powers using a handy spell she learned from an Inuit shaman. 
• This enables her to overhear the Morrigan arguing with Dee.
• Apparently, the Morrigan thinks Hekate should be punished for taking out the Morrigan's birds.
• But Dee says Hekate is untouchable. 
• Why? The Morrigan counters by saying she's not the only Elder on the West Coast—she knows where Bastet sleeps. 
• We don't know who this Bastet is, but she sure as shootin' sounds fierce.
• Light bulb moment: Perenelle realizes that the Morrigan is prepared to awaken Bastet and attack Hekate's Shadowrealm, all to get the pages of the Codex back. 
• That's bad news, it turns out, because Perenelle knows Bastet has the body of the beautiful young woman and the head of the cat. That wouldn't be scary (just weird), if it weren't for the fact that she is also totally powerful. 
• Poor Perenelle. She's worried about whether Nicholas and the twins will be safe when Hekate's powers are attacked.
• We interrupt this program to bring you the story of a girl who could talk to the dead. In other words, let's get Perenelle's back-story:
• When she was a little girl, she could see stuff others couldn't.
• It wasn't until she was seven that she understood that not everyone could see the flickering black and white images she did.
• It turns out these images were the shades of ghosts, which she knew because one of them looked an awful lot like her grandmother, Mamom.
• Perenelle soon realized that ghosts could not see certain colors—blues and greens and some yellows—so she encouraged those colors into her own aura to create a veil of protection, which would prevent the dead from seeing her.
• And now, back to our regular programming.
• Perenelle now concentrates on her pale ice-white aura and takes off the colors she added to block the ghosts. 
• Suddenly, ghosts flock to her. 
• The ghost of Jefferson Miller, who Perry knew when living, tells her that she's in the basement of Enoch Enterprises, under the Coit Tower.
• Perenelle sees that his ghost seems attached to this spot (which makes sense when we learn that ghosts are nothing more than remnants of the person's aura combined with a particular attachment to a place). 
• Hey, she can fix that. She deletes a password and asks Jefferson if he would like help leaving this place. 
• Miller says he would indeed: he'd like to join his wife across the Shadowrealm. 
• In exchange for her help, Miller agrees to take a message to Perry's husband.

May 22

The Alchemyst Chapter 15

In this chapter the twins, Josh and Sofie, enter Hecate's home - a magical, hollow, vast, ancient, hand-carved tree with no electricity and a thin tall tree growing within it.  Flamel calls it the the World Tree.  Scattach calls it the Shadowrealm or World of Ghosts.  We also learn that this warrior is also a vegan Vampire.  They are waiting to meet members of the Torc clan - creatures that are neither human nor beast but worshipped as gods by the humani.  The twins seem to have a destiny to fulfill and Scattach warns them to trust only themselves as they encounter new wonders along the way.

Continue working on your how-to video.

A reminder that any outstanding tasks from this term must be submitted by May 31st.