January Newsletter
General Announcements:
- Chocolate Sales: Due January 10th - all money and/or all unsold products returned to me in room 23.
- Make-up Science Classes - Tuesday, January 7th, Thursday, January 16th, Friday, January 24th
Language Arts:
- Oral Communication: We will be finishing up our Debating Unit during the first week of January, making room for Drama!
- Reading/Media Literacy: we will be continuing to read news articles during class, looking for bias and audience, and will be introducing a novel study before the end of January.
- Writing/Working with Words: We will continue to work on our editing and proof reading skills, with a focus on Grammar. There will be some homework to accompany our continued spelling words.
Grade 7 Science:
- Chemistry unit begins this month, focusing on solutions and mixtures. Students will need to learn the steps of the scientific method:
- Question
- Background Information
- Hypothesis
- Materials
- Procedure
- Observations and Collection of Data
- Analysis of Data
- Communicate your results and conclusion
- There will be scientific experiments during class time, with some analysis of data as homework. These scientific experiments will be the majority of mark during this unit, with weekly quizzes and a final unit test as well.
Grade 8 Science:
- Our Cells unit will be conducted using microscopes and the scientific method.
- Each class will involve a lab in which students will learn different aspects of the cell. These labs will be mostly completed in class, with some analysis of data as homework.
- All notes will be online; if a student requires the notes to be printed out, please make sure to see me during class or Make-up Science Class.
- There will be no project with this unit; assessment will come from lab reports and a final test.
