Countdown to Spring Break :)
Don't forget to book your conference with us this week. Parent-teacher conferences will be Thursday, March 22 (1:00 - 7:30pm) and Friday, March 23 (8:30-12:30pm). In Humanities, students are learning about the roots of democracy in Ancient Athens. Students started off the unit by researching Greece and taking sketch notes in their visual journals. We then looked at being a citizen in Ancient Athens vs. in Canada today. Students learned about the different roles in this society and how much equity and fairness there was compared to what we have now. We have also been continuing to read our novel, "Airborn." It is getting very exciting! Students are now writing about their own mysterious creature, after sketching them and getting feedback from their peers. We will finish this work this week and the journal pages will be due after Spring Break. Last week in class the students were presented with a challenge to design a parachute that supports weight. They had to choose one independent variable to test (size, material or shape of parachute). One of the main objectives is for them to understand what effects the flight of a parachute and what hinders it. There are a couple of websites on the resources page along with a diagram that the students can use in order to answer the " follow up parachute challenge questions" that are due after Spring Break on Tuesday, April 3. In math we learned the similarity between equivalent ratios and fractions and solved problems using them. Our last focus is to look at the relationship between percents, decimals and fractions. The students will have a quiz on fractions (mixed and improper), ratios, percents and decimals shortly after Spring Break.
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