Thanks for a great year and your tokens of appreciation!
All the best in gr8!
St. Simon Catholic Elementary School TCDSB 24 Strathburn Blvd. Mr. Nicola Di Croce, OCT Grade 7 Contact: stsimongr7@gmail.com or nicola.dicroce@tcdsb.org or teachercreatedresources1@gmail.com
gr7
Thursday, 25 June 2015
June25
Best wishes for the summer gr7 class of 2015!
Thanks for a great year and your tokens of appreciation!
All the best in gr8!
Thanks for a great year and your tokens of appreciation!
All the best in gr8!
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Jun11
- Complete any outstanding tasks I informed you about.
- Complete creative writing story task. Use your plot diagram brainstorm to write structured sentences/paragraphs from the point of view of either the author or one character in your story.
- Continue working on play-day station posters.
- Begin working on father's day photo in PPT then BlockPosters.com Insert jpeg in ppt, shapes to create frame border, message at bottom. For example:
- No negative reports.
Monday, 8 June 2015
June 8
Term 2 key tasks + your overall in-class performance taken
into consideration when formulating final grade:
History
·
New France
·
British vs French
Science
·
Form vs Function
·
Loads, Structural Supports
·
Carbon Footprint/Global Warming
Language
·
Bud’s Rules
·
Social Justice
·
Half Moon Plot Diagram
·
Book Talk
·
Media Elements of Advertising
·
Media Infomercial
Math is Everywhere
Math is Everywhere
·
Creative Writing Story
Health
·
Screen Addiction
·
Sedentary Lifestyle
Geography
·
Natural Movements
·
Classifying Landforms
·
Toronto Intersections
Math
·
·
/52 Rates, Ratios, Powers
·
/50 Fractions, Integers, Distributive Property
Ops
·
/34 Fraction Line
·
/64 Fraction Ops
·
/73 Geometry
·
/60 Geometry
·
/28 Surface Area, Volume
·
/56 Balancing Equations
Visual Arts
·
3 of your very best from this term
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
June3
Use a street map of our city to identify the closest major intersections (north/south & east/west) for the following landmarks below. (i.e. St. Simon: Weston & Albion)
- Crossroads Shopping Centre
- Sheridan Mall
- Yorkdale Mall
- Queen's Park
- City Hall
- Union Station
- Yorkville
- Chinatown
- ROM
- Art Gallery
- Casa Loma
- CN Tower
- CNE
- TCDSB
- New Humber River Hospital
- Distillery District
- Eaton Centre
- CityTV/Breakfast Televison building
- High Park
- Ontario Science Centre
- CBC television building
- CHIN Radio/TV in Little Italy
- York University
- U of T Robart's Library
- Emery Habitant Arena
Monday, 1 June 2015
June1-2
-work on science task: steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint and global warming
-work on money & youth handout: where's your money going? create your pie graph using percents
-work on health/language response: sedentary lifestyle as outlined below:
A sedentary lifestyle is one that involves inactivity, that is, little to no movement, recreational activities, or exercise. Screen-time addictions (i.e. television, video games, social media) all contribute to this lifestyle. As a child in the 1980s, I was always out and about after school well into the evening. Now, children are not – they are either indoors, in a community program or at a playdate. I rarely see children playing freely in the neighborhood. The notion of “play” seems to be scheduled and bubbled by overprotective parents at some particular location. As a child, I never learned that inactivity could lead to diabetes, heart disease and obesity in adulthood – these ideas were far from my mind. Now, with all the different media platforms we’re bombarded with everyday, the effects of a sedentary lifestyle become all too clear. It's incredible that we cannot even "unplug" when we are walking or driving! We were designed to move: work and play need to be balanced with proper eating habits. I fear this could become the global epidemic of the 21st century.
Article:
Inactivity is putting kids as young as 15 at risk of obesity, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes
Consequences ... Children as young a 15 are facing the health consequences of inactivity. Picture: Thinkstock Source:Supplied
EXCESSIVE screen time and the inactivity that goes with it is putting kids as young as 15 at greater risk of obesity and chronic disease, new research shows.
And researchers are demanding a long term national policy to get children moving to avert the health consequences.
The effects of poor exercise habits can be seen as early as the age of 15 a Sydney University study published in Pediatrics has found.
The long term study of 4,600 children found those who are more active in late childhood have lower body fat and reduced risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Healthy kids ... Children who are active have lower body fat and reduced risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Picture: ThinkStock Source: Supplied
The good news is an increase of 60 minutes of daily activity in childhood was linked to two per cent less body fat, the study found.
Motion sensors were used to measure children’s physical activity levels at 11 years of age, which was compared to their health outcomes at 15 years of age.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis from the University’s Charles Perkins Centre says just one in five Australian children move enough to meet the national guidelines of 60 minutes moderate to vigorous activity a day.
And 70 per cent exceed the recommendation they spend less than two hours a day engaged in front of a screen.
In the study the children spent an average of just 25-30 minutes doing such activities which include walking, cycling, playing and taking start in sport.
They spent just 5-7 minutes a day in vigours sporting activities.
Not good ... Only one in five Australian children do the recommended 60 minutes exercise a day. Picture ThinkstockSource: Supplied
Getting children moving is a job that can’t be left to parents alone, he says.
A national strategy is needed to combat the problem and prevent the long term consequences of inactivity, he said.
“With technology today meaning excessive sitting and screen time, we urgently need a serious long-term health policy which promotes strategies in schools and communities to give young people more opportunities for walking, cycling, play, and sports on a daily basis,” he said.
“If inactivity patterns persist into adulthood, which is very likely, we expect an increased risk for developing heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.”
Professor Stamatakis says we need to make it easy for children to be active.
Schools should be turned into car free zones to encourage children to walk to school and walking buses should be promoted to get kids to school.
Changes needed ... We need to make exercise the easy option for kids says Professor Stamatakis. Picture: News Corp.Source: News Limited
Cycle paths need to be improved around schools, he said.
A side benefit of the extra activity would be fewer cars on the road, he said.
The study provided clear evidence that the negative effects of inactivity in childhood are evident well before adulthood, he said.
The research is the longest running study to objectively measure children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour against measures relating to heart health, obesity, and diabetes.
The study did not show any association between sitting time and negative health consequences; however the researchers speculate that a longer-term follow up into adulthood could reveal different results.
-work on money & youth handout: where's your money going? create your pie graph using percents
-work on health/language response: sedentary lifestyle as outlined below:
Google a
news article (i.e. CP24, Global TV, Toronto Star etc.) that deals with
“sedentary lifestyle/inactivity”.
Copy &
paste the text into MS Word to print.
On a
separate sheet stapled to it, provide the following:
· a definition
· what factors contribute to developing
a sedentary lifestyle
· how early is it starting?
· can you relate to anything in the
news story?
· what steps can we all take to reverse
the effects?
Response to
Australian news headline: Inactivity is putting kids as young as 15 at risk
of obesity, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes
A sedentary lifestyle is one that involves inactivity, that is, little to no movement, recreational activities, or exercise. Screen-time addictions (i.e. television, video games, social media) all contribute to this lifestyle. As a child in the 1980s, I was always out and about after school well into the evening. Now, children are not – they are either indoors, in a community program or at a playdate. I rarely see children playing freely in the neighborhood. The notion of “play” seems to be scheduled and bubbled by overprotective parents at some particular location. As a child, I never learned that inactivity could lead to diabetes, heart disease and obesity in adulthood – these ideas were far from my mind. Now, with all the different media platforms we’re bombarded with everyday, the effects of a sedentary lifestyle become all too clear. It's incredible that we cannot even "unplug" when we are walking or driving! We were designed to move: work and play need to be balanced with proper eating habits. I fear this could become the global epidemic of the 21st century.
Article:
Inactivity is putting kids as young as 15 at risk of obesity, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes
Consequences ... Children as young a 15 are facing the health consequences of inactivity. Picture: Thinkstock Source:Supplied
EXCESSIVE screen time and the inactivity that goes with it is putting kids as young as 15 at greater risk of obesity and chronic disease, new research shows.
And researchers are demanding a long term national policy to get children moving to avert the health consequences.
The effects of poor exercise habits can be seen as early as the age of 15 a Sydney University study published in Pediatrics has found.
The long term study of 4,600 children found those who are more active in late childhood have lower body fat and reduced risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Healthy kids ... Children who are active have lower body fat and reduced risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Picture: ThinkStock Source: Supplied
The good news is an increase of 60 minutes of daily activity in childhood was linked to two per cent less body fat, the study found.
Motion sensors were used to measure children’s physical activity levels at 11 years of age, which was compared to their health outcomes at 15 years of age.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis from the University’s Charles Perkins Centre says just one in five Australian children move enough to meet the national guidelines of 60 minutes moderate to vigorous activity a day.
And 70 per cent exceed the recommendation they spend less than two hours a day engaged in front of a screen.
In the study the children spent an average of just 25-30 minutes doing such activities which include walking, cycling, playing and taking start in sport.
They spent just 5-7 minutes a day in vigours sporting activities.
Not good ... Only one in five Australian children do the recommended 60 minutes exercise a day. Picture ThinkstockSource: Supplied
Getting children moving is a job that can’t be left to parents alone, he says.
A national strategy is needed to combat the problem and prevent the long term consequences of inactivity, he said.
“With technology today meaning excessive sitting and screen time, we urgently need a serious long-term health policy which promotes strategies in schools and communities to give young people more opportunities for walking, cycling, play, and sports on a daily basis,” he said.
“If inactivity patterns persist into adulthood, which is very likely, we expect an increased risk for developing heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.”
Professor Stamatakis says we need to make it easy for children to be active.
Schools should be turned into car free zones to encourage children to walk to school and walking buses should be promoted to get kids to school.
Changes needed ... We need to make exercise the easy option for kids says Professor Stamatakis. Picture: News Corp.Source: News Limited
Cycle paths need to be improved around schools, he said.
A side benefit of the extra activity would be fewer cars on the road, he said.
The study provided clear evidence that the negative effects of inactivity in childhood are evident well before adulthood, he said.
The research is the longest running study to objectively measure children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour against measures relating to heart health, obesity, and diabetes.
The study did not show any association between sitting time and negative health consequences; however the researchers speculate that a longer-term follow up into adulthood could reveal different results.
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