Art Reflection & Journal

Just a reminder to all grade 6/7 and 7/8 students that their art reflection (one page, quick questions) was due this week. If you have not yet done it, finish for homework and hand it in on Monday!

Also, for grade 7/8s, your one page journal reflection (from our novel) on heroes will be due on Monday. You will have only 25 minutes to work on it on Monday so make sure you have enough done to finish up in that time.
{It is: What is your definition of a hero? (You may also write who your hero is and why in this part). Do you think Ponyboy, Johnny & Dally are heroes? Explain why or why not.)}

Have a great weekend! It might start to feel like spring! :)

7/8 ELA Newspaper Article

The students have started to write a newspaper article on an event that happened in our novel, The Outsiders. They need to have a rough copy of the article done for Monday so we can revise them to make them better, edit them and then type a good copy into a website that will turn them into an actual newspaper article.
Have a great weekend, keep warm!

Grade 7/8 ELA

Just wanted to write a little update on what the grade 7/8s are currently working on in ELA. We have started a novel study on The Outsiders. To gain a little background information to help us better understand the novel's setting, they have been working on a 1960s webquest to find out about the economy, fashion, music, etc. of the 60s.

In writing, we have just begun a persuasive essay-the dreaded e-word! We looked at a sample yesterday to show that writing an essay really is not scary and they just got started on a little bit of pre-research for them.

6-8 Science Links and Video sites!

Video Links to Youtube

Mountain Formation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJk9cFz152s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3ORIgyXyk

Volcanoes

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/forces-of-nature-kids/volcanoes-101-kids/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGm2ymM0Gaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnilQsno2WI

Earthquakes

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/environment/environment-natural-disasters/earthquakes/earthquake-101/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlePrsXTGxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA6oZ4YgKCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcVwAn8W-jo

Website Links

Mountain Formation

http://hubpages.com/hub/Types-and-Formation-of-Mountains-For-kids

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/mountains/types.htm

http://knowledge2kids.blogspot.ca/2009/09/how-are-mountains-formed.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_formation

Volcanoes

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/mountains/volcanoes.htm

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/mountains/volcanotypes.html

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-volcanoes

Earthquakes

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-earthquake.htm

http://kids.discovery.com/tell-me/curiosity-corner/earth/natural-disasters/how-earthquakes-work

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/earthquakes.html

http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-earthquakes

http://scienceforkids.kidipede.com/geology/earthquakes/

4/5 Science Body Systems

Here is a link to a body systems activity - Build Arnold's body back together, one system at a time, by placing the correct organs onto his body outline.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html