Merry Christmas

If you happen to stop here over the break, I hope you are having a great break. I will see you again in the new year!

Math A30 Review Answers

They can be found here.

Physics 30 Review Answers and More

In Physics 30 we will have an Electricity Exam on Monday. Review answers are HERE.

In other classes we will have some assessment as well:

Math A30 - Unit 7 Exam Tuesday morning (shortened period).

Physics 20 - Ear Quiz Friday, and Sound Inquiry due on Monday.

I Got them ALL!!!

I finally finished the C30 Review. Please, take the time to gaze at the solutions once you have attempted all of the proofs. Since possible solutions are posted for all of them, to receive the bonus mark you should have a solution for all of the proofs. The solutions are pages 3, 4, 5, 6.

Please, be prepared for the exam. Part I marks are disappointing. Come prepared to succeed!

C30 Review Part I Answers

Here they are.

Physics 20 KWL Sheet

Here is the sheet.

Physics 30 Circuit Construction

Here is the link to the Circuit Construction applet. Click on the text!

Physics 20 Review

The Physics 20 Review answers are posted here.

Enjoy!

Math A30 Review and Other Things

In Math A30 we are having our Unit 5 Exam on Thursday. The Review Solutions are posted at HERE.

In Math 10 we are starting Consumer Math. Students will be coming home with an Interview Assignment soon. There will alos be a budgeting project and presentation.

Physics 20 has our Curved Mirror and Refraction Exam this week on Friday. Next week students will be able to explore Sound on an inquiry based project.

Electricity and More

In Physics 30 we started electricity. Our Mechanics exam is on Thursday. Make sure that you ask for assistance if you need it! When writing the exam you may start early during lunch.

Math 10 will have an exam covering 4.5-5.4 on Friday. We will review on Wednesday's class and then we will begin the next Unit on Consumer Math on Thursday.

Physics 30 Changes

I have moved the Exam to Thursday, Dec. 3. Now the Hand-in #6 is due Tuesday. You will not receive more class time after Thursday's class, but now you have more time to practice the concepts.

Also, I have now posted the answers to the Multiple Choice section of the review. You can find them here. The main page of the review, I will not provide answers for. Those questions are more for your contemplation. If you are having trouble with them, please, speak with me or email/comment on the blog about the question.

Go Riders!

Math C30 Review Answers

Click Here

Physics 30 Exam

Our next Physics 30 exam will be on Wed, Dec. 2. This way it won't be a rush before the exam. You will have a hand-in assignment #6 due Friday, Nov. 27 by NOON. This way I can have that marked and returned to you before your exam. Any later time, and I will not be able to return it to you before the exam.

In Physics 30, you will begin the Electricity Unit on Friday afternoon. You will be doing a short research paper (1 page) due next Friday, Dec. 4.

Have a good week(end)! Go Riders!!

Updates

This upcoming week there will be 2 or 3 exams.

Physics 20 - Light and Plane Mirrors Exam will be on Tuesday. After this we will move on to curved mirrors and their cool applications.

Math C30 - we will wrap up our Solving Triangles unit and write an exam on Thursday. Then we move into Trig Identities. It is a crazy chapter, but I think we will enjoy it. We are getting close to the end of the course!

Physics 30 - I said exam on Friday, Nov 27. This may not happen, but we should be prepared for the chance that it will. We only have a few sections to cover for Mechanics and then we can move on to Electricity.


In Math 10 and A30 we are not having a test this week. In Math 10 we will be starting Sequences and Series right away and there will be an exam during the week to follow. In Math A30 we have plunged into the MASSIVE Exponents and Radicals chapter. We won't see the light at the end of this unit for a while!

Thanks for stopping by. GO RIDERS!!!

Correction to Review

Just a reminder that the multiple choice question on the top of the last page of the review (#15) should have a mass of 5.0 kg.

Good luck tomorrow.

New Physics 30 Notes

There are notes up for the next Physics 30 chapter. Please, bring the first set on Monday.

Physics 30 Review Answers

Review Answers page 1
Review Answers page 2

Man that was fast (Friday isn't even done yet!).

Make sure to ask for help if you can't get any of the answers.

Exams and Smores

Physics 30 will be having the second unit exam on Tuesday, Nov. 17. Please, set up a time for extra assistance if you want it.

Math A30 will have an exam on Wednesday, Nov. 18. It will cover all of chapter 4.

Physics 20. No exam coming up, but I just wanted to mention how we made smores. We tried on two different days to measure the speed of light in a microwave. The second time we melted marshmallows and chocolate chips. We found the hot spots in the microwave which correspond to antinodes in a standing wave pattern. By measuring the distance bewteen the hotspots we could find the wavelength of the microwave. Then by using the wave equation we found the speed of light! Our value was off by a bit, but it was delicious!

Physics 30 lab postponed

Physics 30 lab now due Wednesday. Enjoy the extra time!

A few dates

Physics 30 - Monday, Nov. 2: Newton's Law lab and Hand-in #4

Physics 20 - Tuesday, Nov. 3: Waves Exam

Math C30 - Tuesday, Nov. 3: Graphs of Circular Fns Exam

Physics 30 Notes Added

There are more Physics 30 notes up now.

Physics 20 Applets

Here is the link to the page where most of the applets came from. Of course there are way more out there, but these are all quality!

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php?cat=Physics

Second Chance Assignments

On Monday, November 2, during the noon hour, students are invited to come to the Physics Lab to write a Second Chance assignment. Since there are no exam rewrites in this class, this is your opportunity to have a mark of your choice eliminated from the Report Card. I WILL ONLY ELIMINATE MARKS YOU EARNED AND NOT INCOMPLETES!

What do you need to do?
• You need to arrive at 12:15.
• You need to complete the Open Book Second Chance Assignment
• You must work on your own
• You must score at least 80% on the assignment

This is a great opportunity to improve your Report Card, mark but as you can see, it will require a strong effort from you. Yes, the Assignment is Open Book, but if you are not prepared, 80% will be difficult to reach. Come prepared and you will be on your way to a much better mark!

For Physics 30, if your goal is to eliminate your Kinematics Exam mark, I am only able to drop its weighting by half. Since we have only written one exam I cannot remove the mark completely from your report card. But at this time the one exam is creating 58% of your mark, so a weighting of half could be a significant upgrade if it is dragging down your average. What I will officially do is add a second exam mark that is the same as your overall mark on the Hand-In Work portion of your progress report. This new mark will be weighted the same as your Kinematics Exam mark.

If you choose to use this opportunity, make sure that you are prepared because you will need to show that you understand these concepts enough (80%) to deserve the mark improvement.

New Physics 30 Notes!

Check out the link at right to find new Physics 30 notes. This is not all of the notes for the unit, but it is the first part.

Math A30 exam tomorrow! Whoops, I haven't been updating this very often. That is the only exam scheduled right now.

End of term 1 is coming soon, so stay tuned for the option to write a second chance assignment.

Important Dates

Hey, it has been a while since I checked in. Last week was very hectic and probably not the greatest for consistent learning as I was away from the classroom for half of the week. Now I am back and we should get right back on track. Don't get me wrong, when I was gone we kept moving forward, but it is tough on the student and teacher to be apart that much.

Anyways, this week and next will have some important dates:

Physics 20: Heat Unit Exam Friday, Oct. 9

Math C30: Circular Function Unit Exam Thursday, Oct. 8

Math 10: Polynomials Unit Exam Wednesday, Oct. 14

Physics 30: Kinematics Unit Exam Friday, Oct. 16 - this will include both Non-vector and Vectors. Your best review tools will be Hand-in Assignments 1, 2, and 3. This will come quickly, but it is necessary that we finish this chapter. Keep up the good work, as most assignments have been done very well!

Math A30: We are working on Functions. An exam will be about 1.5 weeks from now (~ Oct. 20).

I will be sending home progress reports in ALL classes SOON.

More Upcoming Dates

Wow, September is a crazy month. There are so many sports and other activities happening!

Math A30 - Data Analysis Open Book Culminating Assignment: Wed, Sept. 30

Math C30 - no major assignments at this time!

Physics 20 - WHY THE FIZZ! Due on Tuesday, Sept. 29!

Physics 30 - Lab 2.1: Monday, Sept. 28
- Hand-in #2: Tuesday, Sept. 29
~we decided to forego an exam at this time. We should expect one in approx two weeks which will cover Vector and Non-Vector Kinematics.

Math 10 - Our exam marks were lower than expected. A refocusing is occuring in class. No exam for quite some time.

Thanks for stopping by.

New Physics 30 notes!

The next chapter of Physics 30 notes are now posted at http://homepage.usask.ca/~rnb024/!

Math C30 Link

Here it is:

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/olcmathc30/chapter5/c5s6.html

Enjoy.

Physics 30

If you weren't in class Friday, I just wanted to let you know that we didn't get to any of the Constant Acceleration problems from p. 65 or 73.

For Monday have p. 62, 67, and 69 done as well as Hand-in Assignment #1.

Have a good weekend!

Lots of Exams and Assignment Dates

Math A30 - Unit 1 Exam Thursday, Sept. 16

Math C30 - Conics Graphing Assignment Tuesday, Sept. 22
- Conics Unit Exam (plus 6.1) Thursday, Sept. 24

Physics 20 - Why the Fizz? Tuesday, Sept. 29 (take this seriously, it will be a major mark for the first term)

Physics 30 - Hand-in #1 Monday, Sept. 21
- There will be an exam very soon, we need to set the date

Math 10 - Unit 1 Exam Tuesday, Sept. 22

Still a Whirlwind

It seems like things just aren't slowing down at school at all (it doesn't help that Soccer and my brother's wedding are both this week as well). Anyways, things are wrapping up in the intro units of most of our classes.

Math A30 - the first unit will wrap up early next week and we have our first exam on Thurs., Sept. 17. After that we will move into Data Analysis, which has the students working with data to create box and whisker plots. It will be a very short unit.

Math C30 - our first exam is about 1.5 weeks away. We only have one more conic to learn, but we have a few more sections to cover before we will review for the exam. The "fun" artsy math assignment was handed out today. It is due Tuesday, Sept. 22. I hope students find it fun and challenging. I am still very impressed with everyone's work ethic.
Oh yea! This week we did a cooperative learning activity and some in the class couldn't stand not being spoonfed the method, but the groups ended up doing really really well!

Physics 20 -this unit is getting pretty boring. Review begins tomorrow and leads to an exam next Wednesday, Sept 16. The next chapter will be on heat. It will also not feature much hands-on work, but it has a lot of day to day concepts to explore. Make sure you are working on the "Why The Fizz?" assignment! I expect work that looks like it was done over 3 weeks by a grade 11 student, not one night by a grade 6er!

Physics 30 - we are really getting into the bulk of the first chapter now. We will be doing a lot more practice problems over the next week. Position-time graphs and velocity-time graphs are going to be the major concept over the next few classes and then we will be doing a lot of work with acceleration. We should expect an exam in about 1.5 weeks. Things are starting to settle in and students are working well. One thing to note is that students should make sure that they are copying all of the examples, your printed notes don't have everything!

Math 10 - this class is still having major focus issues. I will take part of that blame. We just need to keep in mind that our number one goal is achievement. We are all tired, but we need to focus as if it were 10 AM. We will be finishing up our first chapter (which has us solving lots of equations) over the next week. An exam is about a week away.
The next chapter will be a review of polynomials. I will spice it up by working with Algebra Tiles.


Thanks for stopping by!

First (HOT) Week

Well, the first week has wrapped up. Things have gone quite well, for the most part. I will break down each class:

Math A30 - we have been working on Solving Systems of Linear Equations. Basically it means finding where lines cross. Our whole first unit is on this concept. We have been moving a bit slower than we need to be moving, but next week we will get on track. The students are working hard in class, so I am impressed.

Math C30 - this class is a great group! We started with the Conics chapter, which deals with graphing circles, parabolas, and a few other shapes. I am very impressed with everyone's math abilities and work ethic - and everyone helps each other out too. Just great. This chapter will take us about another two weeks - there will be a fun but hard assignment where we will make "art" by using conics. Circle quiz on Tuesday morning, by the way!

Phys 20 - We have had a lot of fun. We are just getting our head around some physics ideas and are working on different math skills we will need for physics. We have had a couple of things handed in already. Our one assignment, which involved asking a science question based on the videos we watched and then researching the answer, was due today. A number of students were not done - this is a not a very good way to start the year. We need to tighten that up.
The Why the Fizz? assignment, which will be done all on your own time will be due on Sept. 29. We will talk more about it on Tuesday.

Phys 30 -The week seemed to fly by. We just have so much to do! We reviewed our math skills for physics and are now looking at motion. We have an assignment to bring a toy and describe the physics of the toy. Students will be presenting over the next month and a bit - remember your presentation date! Next week we will really be getting more into the course and will be using our textbooks on a daily basis. Things will get harder and I hope everyone is ready to work. This week has me concerned about some students because of their lack of focus in class - but I know the heat in the room didn't help.

Math 10 - I know that you want to have fun in class - but math is our first order of business! This classroom is boiling by 2:30 and the students are pretty riled up, but we do need to work on staying focused. This will be our goal over the next week. So far everyone seems to be doing pretty well. We are working on a review of basic operations and algebra skills right now. We are moving at a great pace. The review of past skills will continue for a lot of the month.
Oh, by the way, the common denominator of 6, 7, and 15 isn't needed when you are multiplying! Just look for something to reduce. You only need a common denominator for adding/subtracting.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you for a short week next week. Hopefully the temperature drops a bit.

Welcome to a New Year and a New Era!

Hi everyone!

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I will be updating it at least once a week and maybe more. This is a great place to stop by and see what topics we are covering in class, when major assignments are due, or when exams will be. Sometime I may even post something on here that I don't mention in class (you never know!). Sometimes I will also post links to different applets or articles online that relate to our classes.

Be sure to click on the link to get Physics 30 notes or a few other important files/links.

I am looking forward to a very busy, but exciting year. Be sure to bookmark this page!

Tests Before the End

There are a number of exams and quizzes that much take place before the end of the year. They are as follows:

• Soc. 7 very small exam Mon., June 22
• Sci. 7 Chapter Quiz Mon, June 22
• Math 7 Exam on final sections covered Tues., June 23

• Social 8/9 Exam Wed, June 17
• Science 8/9 Exam Fri, June 19
• Math 9 Exam Fri, June 19

Thanks!

Not Much is New

I don't have much new info., but I wanted to check in again this week.  

There have been a number of exams this week and the students have all got their marks back.  Some have been great and others not very good at all.  Please, make sure to ask your kids about their marks.  If you are having trouble getting their marks, feel free to call me at the school.  

After a lot of tests and quizzes, next week cools down a bit.  Math 7 will have an Integers Exam next Thursday.  After that I plan to cover a few topics from a few of the remaining chapters until the end of the year.  We will be jumping around a bit.

Awards Night marks are due mid next week, so any students planning to turn in assignments to me, NOW IS THE TIME!  I will be calculating them Monday or Tuesday next week.  

I said this would be short, and it is.  In terms of all the other classes I don't have much for specific info.  We are starting up new units and I may talk about them next week.  

If you have read this post, please leave a comment.  It doesn't have to be anything special (you don't even have to sign it), but I want to have an idea of how many people are checking this...I am getting paranoid that I am talking to myself most of the time (in and out of class!).  Thanks.

Reviews

Grade 7s received a review today for their Social Exam.  We will also go over more specific questions in class Tuesday.

For Science I will also direct them as to which questions they should use to study.

Math 9 students were offered the review on Monday.  Those that did not take it will have it by Tuesday.  They should complete it and ask any questions of me if they can't get any of them.  The review will prepare them well for the exam.

Math 7 Exams

The math 7 exam marks will be shown to students today.  Most of the marks are fairly low.  Ask about the marks.  Today in class marks 70% and below will be going over the content again.  The other students will be making spinner games using their knowledge of circles.  

19 More Days!

It sure seems like everything is a bit of a whirlwind at school right now: Track, SMACKdown last week, a flurry of other things, and then to top it it off, I was away on Monday. The good news is that we are still working away and I don't plan on being away again this year.

A message for students is that when you miss a class, be it for an illness or track, it is your responsibility to catch up on the work. I will give you as much help as you need to catch up, but expecting the whole class to wait for you to catch up is out of the question. I can help before school, lunch time, after school, or even during class, but not at the start of class when I need to get the new lesson started. And yes, I may go fast through some content, but if I know that you are putting in a strong effort in class, I am willing to slow down, but if you are just goofing off I will continue to plug along at a rapid pace. There is no shortage of material that we could cover!

Another note is that Monday, June 1 is supposed to be Town Cleanup. If the weather is poor it will probably be moved, but that is when it is planned for. The SCC is providing a lunch afterwards.

Grade 7
Math 7 - Circles exam on Thursday and then we will be starting Integers. The integers unit will be challenge for some students, but I am excited to do it because I have been impressed by the class's math skills so far.

Social 7 - We had our Current Events Quiz today. It went fairly well. Talk to your kids about North Korea; it is a huge news story right now and the kids are knowledgable on the situation. There will be a Personal and Social Identity Exam on Wednesday, June 3.

Science 7 - Just finishing electricity. Electricity quiz on Friday and then an Exam on Energy that covers the Light, Sound, and Electrical Energy chapters. The exam will be Thursday, June 4. This exam will not be based on memorization, but instead will require students to apply and evaluate using their knowledge. I look forward to seeing how they do. Following that exam we will be doing a short unit on Ecosystems.

ELA 7 - Right now we are working on Ad Campaigns. We looked at different ads/messages and discussed what makes a strong message. The students are applying that knowledge to create an ad campaign on a way that Watson School could be improved. Maybe if some of them are great the ideas will take off! A lot of groups would really love a cafeteria.


Grade 8/9
Social 8/9 - On Monday, June 1 we will be having a Current Events Quiz. Apart from current events we are learning about Canadian Government and the history of Canadian government. At this level we really only do a brief overview, but hopefully the students will be knowledgable on how government and elections in Canada work. We could be into an election again before the year is out and it would be great for the students to be able to follow it with some interest.

Science 8/9 - We are working our way through this unit on ecosystems. I am still getting used to the 3 days on, 3 days off that I have with these science and social classes. We are still looking at symbiosis. For a look at some symbiotic relationships and some pictures of different organisms living together go to: http://www.ms-starship.com/sciencenew/symbiosis.htm. We will be looking at how scientists estimate population of different organisms in an area next week.

Math 9
Next test is coming next week. It will likely be Thursday, June 4. The exam will cover Polynomial Terminology, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Polynomials. It should be pretty straightforward, but we have had a lot of absences with track, suspensions, and so on, so before the exam all students will need to make sure that they have caught up. There are a few hand-in assignments this chapter that I will be marking before the exam which should give students an idea of where they are at. This time I will also assign the review for mandatory completion to encourage more studying; I am really hoping to not have a need for rewrites this time. After this chapter, we will look a bit at Factoring Polynomials. It is basically just undoing what we have done is this chapter - working the questions backwards.

Talk to you again soon!

Spring Fever?

Some students just returned to class from a VERY long weekend.  This is a reminder that we still have more than a month of academic learning time.  We will complete just as much in the next month as we would complete in March or November or any other month.  And by the way, congrats to those who advanced in Track and Field.  Keep up the good work.  

A lot of students are getting to class late, especially in the grade 8 and 9 classes.  I know admin. is dealing with this through suspensions, but I say just get to class!  For a class like Social that we only have 3 times a cycle being 10 minutes late really kills our time to accomplish anything.  

I have good news that most students have been getting the hang of turning in work.  I still have quite a few assignments floating out there in the ether, but I am still signing you up for Homework Club until I receive it completed.  

Grade 7

Math 7 - circles exam next Thursday.  Students will have started the review this Friday so they can spend time reviewing at home as well.  This unit has been hit and miss.  I think everyone has a basic understanding, but it is key to really know the difference between the different formulas and how to draw a circle graph for the exam.  Practice will be needed before Thursday.

Soc. 7 - some students need to hand in their Timeline/Family Tree still.  This was due the first week I was here.  Also there is the Social Justice club posters out there too.  When we have three days off from Social we need to make sure that we don't forget about the assignments.  We will be having a current events quiz next week (Wednesday) and a Personal and Social Identity Exam on around June 2nd.  

Sci. 7 - we are near wrapping up electricity.  There will be a chapter quiz soon and then as promised a larger exam on all three energy chapters.  Those are Light, Sound, and Electrical Energy.  

ELA 7 -things are going well.  We are going to do an Advertising Campaign project over the next few days.  

Grade 8/9

Most assignments are turned in.  Good work!  

Social 8/9 - current events quiz will be June 1st.  Otherwise we are just plugging along in the citizenship unit.  We just looked at the different types of governments around the world.  We will be looking a bit into politics and learning quite a bit about our democracy.  The goal of the unit is to guide students to becoming informed and active citizens.

Science 8/9 - We will be looking at adaptations in animals and plants.  We will then lead into sybiotic relationships between animals.  These are relationships like those between a parasite and a host.  Not all relationships are bad, though.  I think some of them are pretty cool.  We will watch a few videos throughout this to make it a bit more exciting.

Math 9

I have been having a blast using the Algebra Tiles.  The students seem to find them fun too.  There will a hand-in assignment next week which should give us all a gauge as to how well the students are picking up the skills.  With so many absences it is hard to say right now how well we are doing.

Another note is that the students who took the opportunity to rewrite their last exam should be done now.  The good news is that everybody improved his/her mark, but unfortunately many of them are not a drastic improvement.  I am a bit frustrated by this process as I had a student ask me minutes before the rewrite, "Can we do it tomorrow instead because like nobody is ready or had time to study."  First of all, the exam was 8 days earlier, I would hope in that time frame you had time to study and if not you probably don't deserve the chance to rewrite the exam.  It creates much more work for the teacher to administer the tutorial and create the new exam, and if you don't take it seriously you will lose the opportunity.  

Thanks for checking in.  I hope you have a great week or weekend (whenever you check this).

Expecting Lots

As I said when I arrived, I will be expecting lots, and I am holding up my end of the bargain.  Assignments will not be forgotten about with me.  I keep good records and I will hound you and send you to homework club at noon until I get the work!  Get used to it!  Students that keep up with their assignments will not have any issues with me, but I am not going to let you fall through the cracks by completing no work.  Work ethic is important to me.

Grade 7

Not a whole lot of news.  We got back our Science quizzes from last week and found that most of our scores were fairly low.  I have restructured our lessons to try and make more knowledge stick for more than a couple of hours.  I hope that we can see an improvement in this next chapter.  

In Math we are still working on circles and will have an exam in a bit more than a week.  

Math, Social, and Science will all have exams within the next two weeks.

Grade 8/9

Don't forget about the North Korea questions (Social).  Make sure to finish them by next Wednesday's class.  

In science we are looking at adaptation and succession.  These are very interesting topics surrounding why certain plants and animals thrive in certain habitats and cannot survive in others.

Math 9

Oh Math 9.  Oh oh oh.  This is Math.  For those that struggled to be successful on the exam you need to pick it up.  Marks were pretty poor for a lot of students, but there are no good excuses when you had a review that was extremely similar to the exam.  Next time you will be required to finish it; I assumed that completing a review was a logical step in studying!  I don't mean to be snarky, but I am experienced and knowledgable in math and I believe that this is an environment that anyone who puts forth an effort will experience success in.  That doesn't mean it is going to be easy, but it does mean that I will provide you with infinite assistance and encouragement as long as you are trying too.

Today we started Polynomials.  Much of the content is a repeat of the previous chapter.  We will be using Algebra Tiles in class which are a pretty cool hands-on approach to algebra.  Here is a link to an online version of Alge Tiles  http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_189_g_2_t_2.html .  

May 12

Things this week are going pretty good so far.  I had a number of students that I asked to stay in for half of noon due to poor behaviour on Monday, but things are looking up.  

Also I have a long list of missing assignments in all grades, especially grade 7.  If those assignments aren't in by Wednesday the students will be spending noon in the Homework/Detention room.  I clearly went over who this includes and what work is overdue.  

Grade 7

Overall, our math exam last week went great!  This week we are working on circles and on Monday the students discovered the amazing number that is pi.  I think almost everyone was amazed at how every circle imaginable has a value of 3.14... if you divide the circumference by the diameter.

Our Science quiz last Friday did not go as well as math, but it wasn't terrible.  I am trying to tweak the structure of the science classes to make them as productive and meaningful as they can be.  I am more used to high school science and I find grade 7 is a lot more basic theory than upper grades and it is harder to make it really interesting, but I am working on it!  We are now learning about electricity.  There will be a short quiz on Thursday just to see what we remember from Monday (this has not been mentioned at school).

ELA is going well.  On Wednesday we are doing Role Plays based on a story we read.

Social has no new news.  The Timeline/Family Tree assignment still needs to be turned in by a lot of students.  Last week students researched a social justice/charity.  I hope they learned a bit about how we can help others in need.  We are also going to be looking at some current events, such as the flooding in Winnipeg last month.

Grade 8/9

Science has been off for a while (we have it 3 days and then don't for 3 days).  We are still looking at the Water Cycle.  We will then be looking at Food Webs.

Social has us continuing our look at Citizenship and the history of citizenship in Canada.  The fact that Canadian citizenship was established in 1947 as a memorial for our soldiers is very interesting!

We will also be looking at some current events in this class.

Math 9

Exam on Wednesday!  I am excited to see how well the class can do on the exam.  The students should be completing their review and having parents sign it for a bonus mark.  

After the exam we will be starting Polynomials.  I am going to try teaching it using Algebra Tiles, which are a hands-on visual way of introducing the topic.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Feel free to leave a comment if you read this.  

Coming Up

Things have been going pretty good so far, but a lot of students are "forgetting" about homework.  This a trend that needs to stop and this website is designed to assist with that.

Below is a look at some things we have coming up:

Grade 7

Math 7 - starting unit on circles.  No exam for a while!

Soc. 7 - researching a charity or social justice organization.

Sci. 7 - starting a short chapter on Electricity.

ELA 7 - starting up spelling tests!  We have our first on Monday, May 11.  

Grade 8/9 - way too many incomplete assignments!!!

Soc. 8/9 - not much going on right now in terms of projects.  Learning about citizenship.

Sci. 8/9  - completing an illustration on the Water Cycle.  Due. Wed., May 13 Extended until May 14

Math 9

Exponents Exam on Tuesday, May 12.  There will be a review handed out on the Friday before.  This is a tough section, but practise makes perfect.

Any comments or questions don't hesitate to contact me.

First Week

Things have gone well this first week.  Thanks to everyone for the friendly gestures.

Next week has the following assignments and exams/quizzes:

Grade 7 

Math Chapter 7 Exam Thursday, May 7

Science Chapter 8 Quiz Friday, May 8

Social Timeline/Family Tree Project Wednesday, May 6

ELA Goalie Mask Design Wednesday, May 6

~ I know this looks like a lot, but I am giving lots of class time!

Grade 8/9

Social Canadian Symbols Collage Tuesday, May 5

Math 9

There will be an exam near May 12.  It is not set in stone yet, but that is an approximate idea.

New Teacher

Hi, I am Ryan Banow.  I am the newest staff member at Watson School.  I will be teaching grades 7-9.  I will encourage students to show this site to their parents often to keep up to date with what is going on in our classroom.  I will often post assignments and due dates up here as well.  The more people that visit the site, the more detailed the information I will put on it.  Please, visit often!

Feel free to comment below to say hi.