Setp 9

Geography: Place & Location

Pictured is a relative or mental map of the Humberlea community, that is, an approximate map created from personal knowledge and experience of visiting specific landmarks and streets in the area by car, bus, on foot etc.

Locate the following landmarks on the map by placing its number in the corresponding box:

1.  St. Jude Church

2.  St. Jude School

3.  Carmine Stefano Community Centre

4.  Emery Village new housing subdivision/J.Bannon Park

5.  St. Basil High School

6.  Becker’s Plaza

7.  Petro Canada Gas Station

8.  St. Simon School

9.  United Church next door to our school

10.              Strathburn Park

11.              Melody Public School new site of St. Simon

12.              Crossroads Shopping Centre (Tim Hortons, Staples, Canadian Tire, Future Shop, McDonald’s)

13.              Real Canadian Superstore & Gas Station

14.              Dairy Queen

15.              Shell Gas Station

16.              Satin Finish Hardwood Flooring Factory tower

17.              Visioneering Factory

18.              Spielman’s Garden Centre

19.              Kooy Bros. Equipment

20.              Delta Bingo

21.              HomeHardware

22.              Downsview Arena

23.              Pine Point Arena

24.              Sheridan Mall

25.              No Frills Plaza

26.              Brioni Supermarket Plaza

27.              Humber River

Novel Study: Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

On lined paper and in your best cursive writing, answer the following questions before we begin reading the novel:

·       Examine the book cover.  Where do you think the story might take place?  What role do you think the hatchet might play in the story?  How would categorize the book genre or type?

·       Have you ever travelled to a wooded area? Describe the location, your experience and your level of enjoyment.

·       Have you ever heard or seen a realistic story of survival?  Briefly describe it and your opinion about it.

·       What kind of person do you think is able to survive in a dangerous situation?  

Numeracy: Factors, Powers/Square Roots, Order of Operations corrections:

Sept 8

Geography Unit 1: Place & Location

Sept 5

Team Task: Transformational Geometry

Our Results:

Art Task

Silhouette on pencil crayon landscape

Sept.4

By tomorrow, your personal crest & all about me is to be completed and posted on wall.

Come prepared to work on your silhouette art task, as discussed.

Sept. 3

TEAM: ______________________________________________

Team Task: Marshmallow Challenge

Goals:  collaboration, creativity & innovation

In a team of 4 and within 1 hour (60minutes), you are to build the tallest free-standing structure you can using as much or as little of the following supplies as you wish:

1. 30 sticks of spaghetti
2. 2m (200cm) of tape
3. 2m (200cm) of string
4. 1 marshmallow on top

Success Criteria:
• Manage your time efficiently
• Brainstorm ideas
• Sketch possible prototype(s)
• Use your knowledge of geometric shapes
• Refer to science textbook structures chapter
• Refer online to Marshmallow Challenge Google Images
• Collaborate: learning together, sharing/respecting ideas
• Shared Responsibility: equal load, responsibility
• Consensus: making decisions together, everyone agreeing
• Interdependence: relying on each other to reach your goal
• Proper use of digital tools during the learning activity

Follow-up:
Document key events of the build process with a few pictures.
What do you predict the height of your structure to be?
What is the actual height of your free-standing structure?
Reflecting upon the success criteria above, what did you do well as team? What could you continue to improve as a team?

The Build Process:

The Results:

Team Turquoise

As a team, we excelled in collaborating and including everyone's ideas.

We will continue to work on our brainstorming and developing a prototype.

Team Blue

As a team, we collaborated well using what we know about geometry, we used google images for ideas and we respectfully shared ideas amongst ourselves.  We thought we could have a built a much stronger foundation. 

Team White

As a team, we work well with each other sharing ideas and we managed our time wisely.  We tried many different strategies to support the marshmallow and we continuously strived to make the structure taller and stronger.  Next time, we would refer to our science textbook structures chapter to improve our design.

Team Pink

As a team, we worked well together including everyone's ideas and had fun with the task.  We will continue to listening to and respecting each other's ideas and creativity.  

Team Orange

As a team, we worked well to ensure our structure was as stable as possible - we did this by communicating and sharing our ideas while managing our time efficiently.  Next time we could improve the structure by spending more time on brainstorming and sketching a prototype.

Team Green

As a team, we think we did a very good job making decisions together and agreeing on a plan of action.  We think we could have managed our time a little better and made our structure a little more stable.  Otherwise, it was an enjoyable task.

Sept. 2

Welcome Back to St. Simon & to Grade 7!

Review with parents some of our class expectations:

This week we are working in class on a Personal Crest & All About Me collage.  Be creative, make it your own, use whatever media you wish.  Brainstorm ideas, layout, sketch before doing anything, as discussed.

Morning Portable Recess: 9.55-10.10

French:  10.25-10.55

Italian: 12.35-1.05

Afternoon Portable Recess: 2.00-2.15

We will work this week on Math package covering key concepts in Numeracy, Measurement and Patterning. It is not a test.  Some is a review, some will give you an idea of what to expect.  We will work on it little by little each day in class.