September 11

Announcements:

• 1st Cross Country Running Meet Monday, September 16th, after school (make sure you have your forms in if you are participating!)
• Volleyball Tryouts Start this week (Boys - Monday, Wednesday & Girls - Tuesday, Thursday) - watch announcements for more information
• PD day next Friday, September 20th

Math:

Students worked on their optical illusions and drawings. They have to include and label the following:

• 2 parallel line segments (different distances apart)
• 2 perpendicular line segments
• 1 angle bisector
• 2 non-90 degree angles (labelled acute or obtuse)

Students are encouraged to be creative while showing how effectively they can measure and use protractors. 

Assignment is due Friday, September 13th

Note: There will be some time in class on Friday to complete these projects, but if a student requires a lot of time it is recommended that they take their project home for homework.

Science:

This week we have been introducing the new combined unit of Interactions and Ecosystems and Plants for Food and Fibre

We have made connections to our Journey 2050 field through a writing assignment about how will we feed 10 billion people by the year 2050? We also had a guest in class who connected various views of the land including indigenous views, scientific views and personal views. In this exploration we watched a video from indigenous perspective about giving thanks to the land. We participated in a sharing circle and learned about sit spot through experience (we went outside and found our own sit spot for reflection). 

Today we continued to work on making observations (facts using 5 senses) when we looked at photos of fire. Students also generated questions about fire. This led us to a discussion about Is Fire Alive? 

Many students argued that fire is alive as it:

• moves
• breathes air (requires oxygen)
• reacts and responds
• makes sound
• can effect us

We then discussed the needs of living things:

• Shelter
• Oxygen
• Food
• Energy (sunlight)
• Water

We learned the terms Biotic (bio = living) Abiotic (a = not, bio = living) and students used iPads to photograph relationships between two living things (biotic-biotic) or a living thing and a non-living thing (biotic-abiotic). They took 4 pictures and submitted them after identifying who benefitted from the relationship. 

Homework: In the photos identify the type of relationship and who benefits. Email me (lebowen@cbe.ab.ca) your answers. 

Tomorrow students will be given a photo and asked to make several observations and an inference (educated guess based on observations). 

Please take a minute to review these terms (observation, inference) in preparation.