February 13

Announcements:

• Have a wonderful Family Day long weekend!!! Happy Valentine's Day!!!
• No School Thursday, Friday or Monday (February 13,14, and 17)
• The Science Vocabulary Quiz Rewrite is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19th - Please study the vocabulary words from February 7 if you plan to rewrite 

Math:

Students who did not complete the Mrs. Flo Wer Problem (called Modeling Decimals Garden in Power School) are encouraged to re-read the question and create a model using a hundreds grid. All flowers should be labelled and written as a decimal and a fraction (in reduced or simplified form).

Here is the problem:

Mrs. Flo Wer is Planting a garden. She wants to follow the plans below:

• Flo wants four-tenths of the garden to be planted with geraniums
• Flo wants fifteen-hundredths of the garden to be planted with marigolds
• Flo wants three-tenths of the garden to be planted with tulips
• Flo wants the remaining sections of the garden to be planted with sunflowers and daisies

We had a lot of fun making never ending cards with our guest Jeanetta on Wednesday. This activity was both fun and taught and refined measurement skills. 

Here are a few examples of what students created:

Next week we will be focused on decimal multiplication. Students are encouraged to practice their times tables (in grade seven we try to build up to 12x12) as this will make long multiplication easier.

Science:

We will continue working on plotting epicenters of earthquakes on Tuesday. We will also learn about the ring of fire and some of the tectonic plates by plotting earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific plate. This ties in well to math number line bench marking and gives a visual for students to better understand plate tectonics concepts.

Here is a link to the Mapping the Ring of Fire Questions. These questions need to be used alongside the map of the Pacific Rim. Students who miss are welcome to come and get a copy of the assignment.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!