This week in Math/Sci

Hello Grade 8's

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend!

This week in math we will be continuing to work with surface area of 3-dimensional shapes. This will lead up to a surface area quiz on Thursday, Oct. 17 which will cover nets, squares, triangular prisms, pyramids and word problems. A reminder that the L-Blocks worksheet will be due on Thursday, Oct. 17.

Here are some of the equations that we have derived in class. It will be handy to know these for Thursday.

This week in science, we will look into the particle model of matter. Your journal entry on your opinion of the environmental platform of each major political party is due on Friday, Oct. 18. Questions you need to answer can be found on the last slide of today's slideshow.

It may be a short week, but we'll be able to take full advantage of it!

I'll see you tomorrow,

Mr. Badr

Comments

April 2 - Looking Ahead

Hello everyone! It's been wonderful to see that so many students are logging on to D2L! We've been noticing students looking at the Light and Optics slides and working on their writing prompts, so good work! Tomorrow, we are going to have our first Friday class meeting on Google Meet at 10am . An invite code will be sent to your webmail at 9:55am. It is expected that you attend - barring technical difficulties. This meeting will be a little bit longer than our usual meetings since we are still getting up and running. Two main topics we will cover in this meeting: Tutorial on how to submit assignments from Drive on D2L How to take the Practice Quiz (Tomorrow) and the Science Test (Monday) One question we had yesterday was about what Mrs. Thornborough is going to do with Band . We talked to her today and she said that she would set up a webpage with an optional weekly activity for Band students to do in order to further their learning and skills. This is NOT a cours...

Tips for Online Calls

Hi Again! In preparation for our online "chat" - and as we begin to get used to this being our new "norm" - I've created a short slideshow (...with my face on every slide ahah!) going through some basic info regarding Google Meet. 😃 Please review prior to logging in, so that you are aware of what to expect. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1StEks4y2DWUwFoK8maxESvcRdFP1skM_7gVDu7bwLC4/edit?usp=sharing Have a great evening! -Mrs. Lockyer

Google Meet April 1: Takeaways

Hi Friends! What an amazing turn out via Google Meet today! And thank you all f or following the guidelines re: etiquette so closely! It really made for a respectable, seamless call! Well done! Those of you who were doggin' on my Toronto Maple Leafs... I'm watching you closely 😛 Here’s the basic list of we went over today: Review for Light and Optics Test Monday, April 6 Review for Sentence Structure Quiz Monday April 13 **Information regarding these two assessments will be posted on D2L by tomorrow, Thurs April 2. Our main learning platform will be Brightspace by D2L ( If you have issues, refer to Mrs. MacNicol’s tutorial video .) Yes, we will be able to still access our Google Drives through Brightspace by D2L, as a means of continuing written assignments. We'll show you how to do that over the next few days. Effective Monday, April 6, you will be asked to log into Brightspace by D2L every day (...

Grade 8 (Lockyer/Badr)

Search This Blog