FIELD TRIP!
A permission form went home today for a field trip we will be taking on Monday, Jan. 11th.  We will be going to Thornlea for an author's visit (Eric Walters).  Please hand in the permission form by January 8th.  Oh, that's tomorrow.  Sorry for the quick turnaround.


GRADE 9 COURSE SELECTION
Parents: here's some clarification about the course selection process.  Students should be making their course selections for their home french immersion school UNLESS you are planning a transfer.

If your child is planning to TRANSFER from their home french immersion school (the default school on Career Cruising), you must hand in to me a transfer form by Wednesday, January 27th.   This will give time for the "transfer" school to approve/reject the application, and make appropriate changes to Career Cruising.  If your child's transfer is approved, in the week after Feb. 1st, the home school box on Career Cruising will change from the original school to the transfer school.  At that point, your child can then pick the correct courses (pre-AP, IB, HPA...) offered by the transfer school.

Answers to some parent FAQs:
1.  Students CANNOT transfer from Thornlea to Langstaff and stay in the French Immersion Program.  They can transfer to Langstaff, but only in the English stream.

2.  Students CAN transfer from Langstaff to Thornlea and stay in the French Immersion program.

3. I am an Aries.  It's pretty obvious.

4. The Senators are in a bit of a slump, but they will pick up - like they always do - in the last month of the season.


Grade 8

Math

1. We will be doing a "checkpoint" quiz tomorrow.  Be familiar with the concepts of validity, bias, reliability, census, and sample.  As well, think about how each of the terms has an impact on the other (e.g. bias has an impact on reliability...).  We had a riveting conversation today about all of the conditions that need to be met in order to have a reliable, unbiased, valid survey (it's actually quite hard to do).  




Grade 7

Bullying PSA: to begin, search on Google: "Canadian Bullying Statistics" which will provide a bevy of websites hosting the necessary stats.  Then, make a hypothesis about the bullying statistic found: why do you think it is this way?

Let's look at Chavae's example from today: she found that the highest percentage of reported bullying incidents in Canada occurred in Ontario, Quebec, and BC.  She then brought up a second statistic, the rate of urbanization in Canada, and drew a link between the two: with increased urbanization (all three of these provinces are home to the largest urban centers in Canada) comes an increase in internet connectivity (Chavae was just about to pull up a third stat to show this), and with increased internet use, you will find an increase in bullying incidents (lots of data to support this).

Math: 

1. 6.2