Thursday, February 11, 2016

Anyone else excited about this?  July, 2016.  I'm lining up tonight.




KUDOS TO: Ronan and Val for their class-best lion race (I think it was 23 seconds).  

My apologies to Cindy: she was in fact the student who created the rough edit.  So no kudos to you, Alex.

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ENGLISH

1. Framework for "Dystopia/Utopia" is due tomorrow.  Thus far, students have shown paragraphs A, B, and C; tonight, all that's left are D and E.  If you get a moment to talk to your child about the way we broke this into separate parts and with separate due dates, I would appreciate it.  I'm curious to see how they saw this way of working (rather than all last minute).

MATH

1. The second data management test came home today.  Please take a moment to look at both sides of the test with your child.

2. Mid-Unit review is due tomorrow.  There was considerable time given in class to work on this, so it shouldn't take too long.  We will have a test on Tuesday for 2.1-2.3.


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ENGLISH
1. We will begin our frameworks for the three selected essays next week.  Like I have done with the grade 8s, I will be dividing the work into "chunks": each essay requires a framework containing 5 paragraphs.  Paragraph A will be due Tuesday, Paragraph B Wednesday, and so on.  That way, it forces students to work piecemeal rather than (possibly) procrastinate and do all 5 in one night.

MATH
1. The second DM test came home today.  Take a moment to look it over with your child.

2.  The 2.1 - 2.3 test will be on Tuesday.  Come with any questions tomorrow!

3.  Here are some problems to work your ratio magic tonight:

1.  At Darlene's Dairy Bar, the ratio of vanilla to chocolate to strawberry ice cream cones sold is about 3 : 5 : 2.  Last week, 155 chocolate ice cream cones were sold.  What was the total number of ice cream cones sold?  Two weeks earlier, a total of 380 ice cream cones were sold.  How many of each flavour were sold?

2. For the numbers 2 to 100, including 2 and 100, determine each ratio:

a. The number of even numbers to the number of odd numbers

b. the number of multiples of 6 to the number of multiples of 8

c. the number of prime numbers to the number of composite numbers