Feb 6

Integers

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/adding_subtracting_negatives/e/number-opposites

Feb 5

Exploring integers in a real-life context:

Science pg.156-159 read & answer questions #1-5

Feb 4

February 4

Welcome Ms Nini to our class.  Be cooperative and respectful.  No negative reports ;)

8.30-8.35
Attendance

8.35-9.40
Continue w/ History Task following success criteria below:

• Topic: focused and specific from list provided
• Content: combination of key facts from video review sheet & textbook pages provided
• Creativity: use of digital tools to showcase (prezi, video, publisher, bitstrips, twitter, blogger)
• Collaboration: sharing ideas, working constructively, interdependent

10.15-10.30
Recess

10.30-11.00 
Italian

11.00-11.35
3 page friendship/relationship handout on desk
make extra copies, incomplete from last week

11.35-12.35  
Lunch

12.35-1.05   
French

1.05-1.40 math rotary boys
Write integers using an addition/subtraction statement
for example:
earn $54, spend $22
$54 - $22 = $32  or  $54 + (-$22) = $32

• bank account $156, credit card purchase $200, overdraft charge $5
• yesterday 0°C, today -7°C
• wind chill today -19°C, yesterday wind chill -11°C
• debt $125, paid $80
• salary $250, atm charge $2.25, cell bill $85, lunch $12
• gas on visa $52, coffee on visa $3, groceries on visa $78, paycheck $105
• yesterday 5°C, today -3°C
• owed $10, paid back $10
• debt $10 250, visa purchase $525, paid back $4500

correct 5.1 workbook, work on 5.2 workbook

1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-2.25

2.30-3.10
math rotary girls

3.30
Bus Duty Weston 1

Feb 3

Excellent Measurement Problem-Solving

Jan 31

Continue working collaboratively with your partner on your Canadian History project.  Select only 1 topic from list and creatively showcase it using your choice of software i.e. prezi, ppt, google blogger, moviemaker, imovie, bitstrips, educreations, publisher, drama skit etc.  

Work on U6 Integers workbook 6.1 and continue posting examples of integers to our numeracy pinterest board.

Jan 30

U6 Integers:

Find a real-life example of Integers and post to 

http://www.pinterest.com/stsimongr7/gr7-math-di-croce-tassone

Jan 29

Math:

1.  U6 Integers Do You Remember textbook introduction

2.  Visit pinterest.com, log in, stsimongr7@gmail.com, numeracy7, pin to your board examples of what numeracy & number sense look like to you in grade 7
http://www.pinterest.com/stsimongr7/gr7-math-di-croce-tassone/


3.  History: Confirm on paper: group members, topic, and how you will creatively present the topic i.e. prezi, video, drama scene, publisher pamphlet, bitstrips/comic strip etc.

Jan 28

Math: Ratio, Rate, Percent

Using your text, pg.77 Math In Action, follow https://twitter.com/dicrocestsimon

Post a constructive reply to last Tweet which is the educreation solution to Rock Band Manager math question posted by:

Christian, Colin, Jorel, Beatriz, Alona & Rebecca via

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/math/16281539/?s=gkf4SG&ref=app  

Answer this question in your reply:  
What do you think of the strategy they used to solve the problem? 
Do you agree or would you have solved it differently?

Jan 23

Select a History topic from yesterday's blog entry and beginning reading specific textbook pages.

Math corrections continued & take-home test below:

Jan 22

Canadian History: 

European Colonization & Aboriginal Interaction in Early Canada

Topics to explore in groups of 2 maximum and present using your choice of either Prezi, PPT, iPad-friendly educreations.com, YouTube video, MovieMaker, iMovie, or MS Publisher pamphlet:

French Colonization:
-purpose of new settlements
-Port Royal, Acadia
-Champlain's Habitation
(see text pgs. 17, 24, 25, 28, 40)


Fur Trade w/Aboriginals:
-commercial & military alliances with Algonquin, Montagnais, Huron
-role of coureurs de bois to expand trade & build trust
-trade route map
-hat types
(see text pgs. 29-30)


French vs Aboriginal:
-compare/contrast cultures
(see text pg.31)


Jesuit Missionaries converting Aboriginals:
-black robes Ste. Marie
-struggles
-Huronia destruction, death
(see text pgs. 34, 35)


British Colonization:
-establishment of Canada's oldest business, namely, Hudson's Bay
(see text pgs.46-47)


New France A Royal Colony:
-King Louis Absolute Monarch
-Officials that manage colony & their roles: Intendant, Governor, Bishop
-Church involvement in religion, health care & education
(see text pg.59-63)


Seigneurial System:
-purpose, structure, location, roles
(see text pg.66-71)


Life on a Seigneury:
-daily life, work, culture
(see text pg.72-25)


Prezi sample:
http://prezi.com/b674n7lyc9cx/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Homework:

Workbook 5.6 pg.52

2b, 5a,b,c,d.

Bring in a string art template tomorrow ready to print from your memory stick.  Stretch it out on PPT using margins 21.6cm x 27.9cm and bring your own hammer to get started.  Come prepared!