Secret Santa

Secret Santa has been postponed until Wednesday. Please be sure to bring your $5 gift. 10 students did not bring gifts today. Also, tomorrow is the last day for Food Bank donations - our class has done an amazing job in collecting donations. Thank-you.

Math

Please finish the multiplication WS you were given on Thursday. On the Division WS you were given on Friday, only do to 3c.

Secret Santa

On Monday students will be exchanging Secret Santa gifts. Please don't spend more than $5. Students have chosen names of who they will buy for.

Math 7

Worksheet 3.3 Questions 1,2,3,4,8
...............Due Friday

Field Trip Opportunity

Our class has an opportunity to see a private screening of 2012 at Silver City on Tuesday Dec. 8.
This film ties into the grade 7 science curriculum and our Earth Science Tectonics unit.
We need parent drivers to make this happen. Also, permission forms need to be in ASAP., perferably this Friday. A permission form was sent home on Wednesday.

The film is rated PG.

Science CH 8 Package

Your science book so far should contain:

Assignment	Due
Worksheet 8.1 Layers of the Earth	Should be stamped
Worksheet 8.2 Putting the Pieces Together	Should be stamped
Worksheet 8.4 Evidence for a New Theory	Should be stamped
Investigation 8.5 Mapping Geological Activity	Should be marked
Notes and Diagrams about Plate Boundaries

Math

Worksheet 3.2, do only a and b on multi-part questions. Students had lots of time to do this in class. please finish for tommorow if not done.

Math Terms

Terms you should know:
Numerator
Denominator
Equivalent Fraction
Equivalent Decimal
Mixed Fraction
Improper Fraction
Bar Notation

Science Geo Map

Students have been working through the investigation on pages 230-232. The Hypothesis, Analysis and Conclusion sections all need to be finished as well as questions 4,5,6 on page 232. Please hand in with the completed map.

Now Overdue

Language Arts Dust

Your dust cover Sheet should look like this

Chapter	Focus	Due
17	What you think is happening with evidence	Should be in
18	Direct and reported speech - use some of each	Should in
19	Main points. Complex and simple sentences	Mon Nov. 30
20	Main points. Complex and simple sentences	Mon Nov. 30

Math Unit 3

Your Math coversheet should have these assignments on it:

Concept Covered	Practice Questions	Due
Intro to Fractions	W/S 3.1	Should be stamped
Comparing and ordering Fractions	W/S 2.5 even questions	Should be stamped
Writing Fractions as decimals	W/S 2.6 even questions	Mon Nov. 30

Science terms

Earth’s Crust Chapter 8

• Crust – is the thin layer of solid rock that makes up Earth’s outer most layers.
• Mantle – a hot thick layer of solid and partly melted rock.
• Outer Core – a dense hot region that is made up mostly of liquid iron and some nickel.
• Inner Core – a large ball of iron and nickel.
• Plate Tectonics – from these new observations, and the previous observation made by Wegener, the theory.
• Continental Crust – the part of Earth’s crust that has continents on them.
• Oceanic Crust – the parts that have only oceans floor on them.

Compiled by Calyn

Science Investigation 8.5

Students have been working through the investigation on pages 230-232. The Hypothesis, Analysis and Conclusion sections all need to be finished as well as questions 4,5,6 on page 232. Please hand in with the completed map.
Due Friday Nov. 19th

Sci - World volcano and eathquake map

This was assigned last week and should be done by Wed. Nov. 18th. Students are putting locations of major earthquakes and volcanoes on a map.

Math Chapter 2 Review

We are approaching the chapter two test. Students have been working on the review from page 79-80. They should do at least one question from each section then check their answers in the back of the book. If they get it wrong hey should do a second question from that section before moving on to the next section. Time was given in class. Due Tuesday Nov. 17th

Language Arts Dust Ch17

For this chapter summary students should concentrate on writing what they think is going on and finding evidence in the book to support it. Sentence structures should include compound sentences that use connector words like 'because', 'so', 'but'.
...Due Wednesday Nov 18

Language Arts Dust Ch16

For this chapter summary students should concentrate on finding the most important information from the chapter and avoiding unimportant details. This chapter summary should therefore be very short.

Math 7

Worksheet 2.5 Questions 1-5.........Due Friday Nov 13
Many students finished this in class

Science 7

World map of earthquake and volcano locations ....Due Monday Nov. 16

Parent Teacher Interviews

If you have not yet signed up for arent teacher interviews please send me a note saying when the best time for you to come is. I'd love to see all the parents.
Forms and details are online at

http://dunsmuir.sd62.bc.ca/

Todays homework: adding integers on a number line worksheet 2.3

Math7

Today's Homework: Integer worksheet

Yesterday's Homework: Page 54-55 Numbers 1,2,4 or 4,5,6,7

Student Access to Blogs

Students are an active part of this blog. In order for them to contribute I must have an email address from them and I will invite them to become authors. The email address doesn't need to be google based but they willuse their email to sign up for a blogger account in order to post. Students should use only their first name as their display name. If you have any concerns about students having blogger accounts please contact me and we will make other arrangements.

Science 7

Rock Cycle Project_

Create a presentation explaining the rock cycle. Forms of presentation could include: Poster, essay, speach, PowerPoint, play, rap or song, comic strip, or a diary of a rock's life.

Things you should include:

Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic rock
Sediment
Weathering
Magma
The Processes

Things you might include (think 'A'):

3 types of weathering
types of erosion
fossils
pictures (examples of rocks)

Math Test Corrections

Please hand in your Math test corrections along with the Test Correction Worksheet and 2 appropriate questions from the text.

Math 7

The mid chapter 1 test was returned. A worksheet was handed out that must be done by Friday.

math page 33,34 1,2,3,4,6

finsh page 33 34 by wensday

L.A. 7

chapter summarys up to 5 for the book Dust

Math Chapter 1 Midchapter Test Prep

If you can answer these questions you will be able to do well on the test:

1. Which of these numbers are divisible by 6?

92

114

216

420

675

2. How do you know?

3. Identify the variable, coefficient and constant in these expressions
3x+2

w+3

4. Write an expression for each phrase:

i) six more than a number
ii) one more than double a number
iii) three times a number decreased by six

5. Evaluate these expressions if n=3
3n-2 10-n 2n+1

6. Finish these tables and write the relationship between the input and output.

input	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
output	3	6	9	12	15

input	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
output	1	3	5	7	9

7. Jennifer works part-time at a store.
She earns $6/hour during the day and $8/hour during the evening.

Suppose Jennifer works 9 hours in the day and m hours in the evening.
i) Write an expression for her earning in dollars.

ii) How much does Jennifer earn when m=11?

Good luck tomorrow everyone. Remember to write sentence answers for work problems.

science 7

answer the questions on page 197 :)

Math 7

Quiz Tomorrow.

Science 7

To date, these assignments should be done and neatly in your Science binder of duotang:

Title Page
KWL Chart (what I know, want to learn, and learned)
Observing a Rock
Properties of Minerals Worksheet 7.1
Page 193 Questions 1-4
Lab 7.2

Language Arts 7

Please write a summary for chapter 2 of Dust.

Math 7

Students worked on Input/Output charts today. Questions 1,2,3,4 or 2,3,4,5 on page 27-28 were assigned to be done by tomorrow. Most students finished in class. This brings us to halfway through the first unit. A quiz will be on its way.

Language Arts 7

Students should make a table (2 column T-chart) of quotes from chapter 1 of Dust and what those quotes tell us about the character Matthew Steelgate.

Math 7

Students should have come home with a worksheet of pre-algebra questions. This should be completed.

Science 7

Finish chart and questions on page 193 (in handwriting)

Language Arts

Read chapter one for Dust and write summary for chapter one.

Math 7

We continue to work on multiples and factors. A worksheet was givent that must be finished for homework if it was not done in class.

Science 7

Students have been looking at the properties that are used to idntify minerals. We worked on a worksheet. We will have some time next class to complete it, but if students are not completed up to Crystal Structure on the sheet then they should do up to there for homework.

Language Arts 7

Students have written and presented short speaches about themselves. Students were trying to have their speaches as close to 60 seconds as possible. By using this as the criteria it stresses the need to practice and revise speaches.

Math 7

Students have been working on Multiples and Factors.
They should have finished P 24-25 Activities 1-5. Omit all question 2 and 3s.

Students should be able to identify multiples of 2,3,4,5,6,8,9 and 10 using the rules that we developed in class.

Welcome Grade 7 Class

Welcome to my grade 7 class at Dunsmuir Middle School. I am very excited to teach this class full of wonderful students. In addition to my own class I will teach Mr. Spence`s class Science while my class goes to Mr. Spence for Social Studies. If you have any concerns please call the school or email me. I hope to see all the parents at Meet The Teacher Night this coming Tuesday, Sept. 22.

Computers 8

Students should have finished their first assignment: a complaint letter.

Japanese 9

Today, we learned to ask and talk about things that we like. Students should also know the names for all the foods on page 60-61.

Japanese 9

Term 2 ends on Wednesday, January 28. All assignments must be in by this date.

Students have been given marks sheets that include a list of what tasks they are missing.

Continue to study every day, even if only for 15 minutes.

Computers 8 & Computer Graphics 8

Term 2 ends on Wednesday, January 28. All assignments must be in by this date.

Students have been given marks sheets that include a list of what tasks they are missing.

Computer Graphics 9

Students have been given marks sheets that include a list of what tasks they are missing.
This term students should have handed in:
Tables Website
Website about you
Website Quiz
Educational Website.

Japanese 9

Hand in your ID card that we made. Begin to prepare a self-introduction (jikoshokai) using the info on the card.

Computer Graphics 8

Students should be finishing up their Friends' Booklets this week.

Japanese 9

Students have been given detailed marks including missing tasks. All work should be in by January 19th. Term ends Jan 28.