Weekend

*Congratulations to S.G. for his co-operation award at Terrific Tigers today!

*Congratulations to all rock band members for a great performance at today's Terrific Tiger assembly!

*Albion Hills "expectations" forms must be signed by next Thursday if you wish to attend (but feel free to bring them in on Monday). If they are not returned by next Thursday, you will not be able to attend.

*Global Information Systems presentation next Friday - should be really interesting!
*Rock Band rehearsal next week on Tuesday 3-4:30
*Ultimate Frisbee team practice next Tuesday 7:45-8:35 (at Birchlea if the weather is good. Meet outside community doors)

English
-All good copies of the Persuasive Essays must be e-mail or handed in to me by 8:50am Monday morning

Math
-Round and Round assignment should be completed as soon as possible
-Math Minutes 6/7/8/9
-Converting Fractions to Decimals and Percents worksheet

Geography
-Final Natural Disasters presentations will be on Monday

Drama
-Design your own product/commercials will be presented on Tuesday or Wednesday (don't forget to bring in/make any props you need)

Thursday

*Terrific Tiger assembly tomorrow at 9:20am
*Rock Band members please meet at 7:45am sharp in the gym

*Congratulations to the Grade 7/8 Ultimate Frisbee Team for an outstanding performance today! They went 6-1 at the Invitational, and came second overall out of twelve teams, losing the final by one point in sudden death overtime! Looking forward to an amazing season...

English
-Good copy of the Persuasive essays should be typed out and handed in by tomorrow

Math
-Complete both Math minute handouts from today
-Complete both fractions/decimals/percent worksheets from today

Geography
-Natural Disaster Presentations will continue tomorrow and Monday! Keep rehearsing!

Drama
-We will continue our fictitious commercials next week

Wednesday

*Ultimate Frisbee tournament tomorrow - Meet 7:45am outside front doors of the school (bring water, lunch, snacks, athletic clothes, cleats, hat, sun screen)

*Terrific Tigers - Friday 9:20am

English
-Good copy of persuasive essays should be typed and sent to Mr. Mak by end of the day Friday

Math
-We will finish off any incomplete unit tests on Friday
-"Round and Round" assignment is due by the end of Period 5 tomorrow

Geography
-The first several presentations were great!
-We will continue to finish them up on Friday and Monday. Keep rehearsing!

Tuesday

*Terrific Tigers - Friday at 9:20am

*Longboard club at lunch tomorrow

*Ultimate Frisbee tournament Thursday

Math
-Unit test tomorrow
-Look over all learning goals (posted yesterday)
-finish textbook question from today (if not done in class):

-pg. 456 #1-8, 15,16, 18

-pg. 458 #1, 2, 3,7,8,13

Geography

-Natural Disaster presentations tomorrow

English

-Good copy of persuasive essays due on Friday (typed and sent to Mr. Mak)

Monday

*Ultimate practice tomorrow 7:45am (meet outside community doors)
*Ultimate tournament Thursday

*Terrific Tigers - Friday 9:20am

*Rock Band - Tuesday 3:00-4:30

English
-Persuasive essay good copies are due this Friday
-Please add in corrections/suggestion I made to your rough copies

Math
-"Round and Round" assignment due Thursday
-Unit Test - Transformations is on Wednesday

Learning Goals:

– Plot ordered pairs (points) using all four quadrants of the Cartesian coordinate plane

- Identify the origin (0,0), label x-axis (horizontal) and y-axis (vertical)

– Identify, perform, and describe dilatations (i.e., enlargements and reductions by a scale factor)

– In general: create and analyze translations (slides), reflections (flips), dilatations (enlargements/reductions), and/or simple rotations (turns) of two-dimensional shapes

-Two-step translations (i.e. - six units left, four units down)

-Reflections across the x-axis and y-axis

-Reflections across a line of reflection/mirror line

-Rotations with the turn center/center of rotation/fixed point on a vertex

-Rotations with the turn center outside of the shape

-Rotations around/about the origin

-Understand and relate common rotations to fractions of a turn (90 -1/4, 180 – 1/2, 270 – 3/4, 360 – whole turn)

-Labeling transformations using prime and double prime symbols (i.e.- ABC – pre-image, A’B’C’ – image,  A’’B’’C’’ )

-Vocabulary: vertices, ordered pairs, Cartesian co-ordinate systems, quadrants, transformations, translations, reflections, rotations, dilatations, prime’ and double’’ prime symbols, x-axis, y-axis, pre-image, image, vertex, clockwise (CW), counterclockwise (CCW), mirror line/line of reflection, turn centre

-Solve problems involving transformations (i.e. – working backwards to find the initial position of a polygon)

Geography
-Natural Disaster presentations start Wednesday

Weekend!

Clubs and Events
*Ultimate team practice next Tuesday, tournament on Thursday (all day - still need another parent driver!)
*Rock band Tuesday 3:00-4:30
*Longboard club Wednesday at lunch and after school - the prototypes look great, time to make the real-deal!
*Math - Extra help/enrichment - Monday at lunch (11:50am room 212)

*Terrific Tigers Assembly (Co-operation) - Friday at 9:20am

English
-If you did not finish your persuasive essay rough copy, please do so and hand it in or e-mail me as soon as possible
-Look over some of our spelling/comprehension words (we will work on this next week)
-Start thinking of some topic ideas for your next magazine article

Math
-Make sure your are comfortable with the rotations work we did today
-Finish the questions below, if not completed in class:

1.What is a synonym for rotation?

2.How many degrees are in one full rotation, one quarter rotation, one half rotation and three quarters of a rotation?

3.Make a drawing to show the difference between rotating CLOCKWISE(CW) and counterclockwise (CCW).

4.Explain what is meant by a fixed point/point of rotation/center of rotation? What are three different locations that a fixed point be found?

5.On a properly labeled Cartesian co-ordinate system, draw and properly label the triangle ABC. A (-5, -5) B (-8,-8) C (-7,-2)

6.Which quadrant is the triangle in?

7.Rotate your triangle 130 degrees (CW) using the ORIGIN as your fixed point and label it properly.

-Complete the double-sided worksheet for practice (only do questions you need to review)

-TRANSFORMATIONS UNIT TEST next Wednesday

-Math - extra help - Monday at lunch

Geography

-Natural Disaster presentations next Wednesday 

Thursday

*Ultimate TEAM practices will begin next week Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 7:45 (Meet outside the community school doors - we will train at Birchlea Park)
*We may add in an extra practice Wednesday at lunch to prepare for the tournament
*The Ultimate Tournament is next Thursday (all day - William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.) - we are looking for parent drivers!

English
-Rough copy of persuasive essays are due tomorrow (intro, three body paragraphs, conclusion)
-Re-read the example we looked over for our Guided Reading today ("It's Time to Junk Junk Food") to help you
-Look over the rubric again as well
-Start looking over the 30 spelling/comprehension words we wrote down today

Math
-Minute Math will continue tomorrow! Challenge #2
-Finish the worksheet I posted last night, if you did not complete it
-Make sure you are comfortable with everything we went over today: direction of rotation (CW/CCW), common rotations, centre of rotation (on a vertex, on the origin, on a point other than the origin)

Geography
-Natural Disasters oral presentations begin next Wednesday

Wednesday

*Ultimate Frisbee final tryout - tomorrow morning 7:45am (if not too much rain, meet outside community school doors, if lots of rain/raining, meet at the gym)

*Congratulations to the longboard club members - the prototypes look great (and are pretty fun to ride as well!)

English
-Rough copy of persuasive essay due to Mr. Mak on Friday
-Use the essay we read as a class during guided reading today to help you out (and the rubric)

Math
-Try the examples below:

Geography
-Natural Disasters oral presentation due next Wednesday

Tuesday

*Next Ultimate Frisbee Team tryout is Thursday morning at 7:45am (meet outside the gym)
*Long board building club at lunch tomorrow (11:45 in the wood shop)

English
-Finish your non-fiction reading assessment - "How Rainbows Are Formed" - due tomorrow
-Keep working on your body paragraphs for your persuasive/argumentative essay

Math
-Complete the questions from today's reflection review in class
1. Draw a properly labelled Cartesian co-ordinate system
2. Plot the pre-image ABC : A (-1,5) B (-4,8), C (-8,2)
3. Reflect ABC across the line of reflection y = -2 and label the image properly.
4. Reflect your image across the y-axis and label properly
5. Can you solve a similar question if we are reflecting across x = -4 ?

Geography
-Keep working on your Natural Disasters oral presentation (make sure you meet all learning Goals on the rubric!)

Long Weekend!

Have a great weekend with your families and friends!

Math
-Finish the reflections worksheet from Thursday (learning goal - i.e. reflecting over the line y = -3 or x = 4)
-Tuesday/Wednesday we will work on rotations
-Transformations test next Thursday or Friday

English
-Rough copy of Argumentative/Persuasive Essay due on Wednesday, good copy Monday April 24th
-Introduction, three body paragraphs and conclusion (look over the rubric carefully!)
-We will have a spelling/comprehension test on Thursday or Friday (30 most commonly misspelled and misused words of the year!)

Geography
-Keep researching for your Natural Disasters presentations (due week of April 24th)

Extracurriculars
1) Ultimate Frisbee tryouts this Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7:45 (make sure the permission form is signed)
2) Rock Band - Tuesday - 3:05-4:30
3) Longboard building club - Wednesday at lunch and after school
4) Bike club will be starting up again the first week of March

Wednesday

*Great discussion, debate and suggestions pertaining to Day of Pink today!

*Ultimate Frisbee tryouts next Tuesday and Thursday morning
*Forms will go home tomorrow and must be signed in order to participate

*Longboard building club will meet again tomorrow morning 8am to finish off sanding and grip tape; looking awesome! We will also meet next Wednesday at lunch

*Extra help and work time is available tomorrow at lunch (11:55 room 212)

*Rock Band next Tuesday after school (3-4:30)

English
-Continue working on your argumentative/persuasive essay
-Thesis statement should be finish
-Body paragraph #1 (with clear topic sentence) should also be complete
-Due date is next Wednesday April 19th in GOOD COPY

Math
-Review the reflections we practiced today (shapes reflecting on top of one-another)
-Complete the practice sheet below

Geography
-All work on renewable and non-renewable resources should be complete and shown to Mr. Mak
-Tests should be marked by tomorrow!

Tuesday

* I will be running the Gr 7/8 Ultimate Frisbee team tryouts next week (most likely Tuesday/Thursday morning). Stay tuned for details....

*Longboard construction club will meet at lunch tomorrow to finish cutting and sanding our decks. Make sure you know your preferred shape and dimensions!

*Rock Band will meet again next Tuesday (3-4:30)

English
-Make sure you know what your persuasive essay topic is and the three points you will discuss in your three body paragraphs

Geography
-Continue research on your Natural Disasters presentations

Math
-We will continue work on reflection tomorrow, then rotations
-Our Transformations test will likely be next Tuesday or Wednesday
-There will be extra help or time to catch up on work at lunch on Thursday

Monday

Spirit Days this week:
Tuesday - Blue Jays
Thursday - Leafs

Math - “Transform the Shapes” worksheet

-Textbook pg. 452#18, -pg. 458#1,2,3,7,8

-pg. 452-453 read the instructions and create a rotational tessellation (colour would be great, but is not necessary)

English

-How Are Rainbows Formed -Reading Passage

Geography

Endangered Species

Environmental Factors – Landforms, Climate, Water, Soil, Natural Vegetation

Herbivores

Carnivores

Inshore vs. Offshore fishing

Trawlers

Ore

Open-pit mining

Thematic Maps (relief)

Interaction

Cultural Landscapes

Urban Place

Urban vs. Suburban vs. Rural

Clear-cut logging

Conservationists

Textbook questions – read pg. 32-33

1.     Explain, in your own words, what a thematic map is.

2.     Explain, in your own words, what “relief” refers to in Geography.

3.     Complete #1-3 on page 33