Today we began the day with a review of more questions from our short story
Sisters. I was pleasantly surprised by the good quality examples of alliteration that were found. As often happens with this type of examination, samples were found that sort of fit the criteria, but sort of didn't. I like this type of natural learning. Today we needed to decide whether a series of similar sounds that didn't all come at the beginning of the words was still alliteration. We found it wasn't and were thus introduced to a new term:
consonance. Next, Mrs. Rive came in and spoke to the class about how they approach band class before they headed off to see Mr. Grice.
After recess we read for ten minutes and then started our math lessons. In Math 7, we continued to dissect the unit test before we have another try at it.
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| 1. Confirmation of yesterday's review |
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| 2. Reviewing a test question |
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| 3. Confirming today's practice |
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| Thanks, to those who loaned us tandems to train with. |
After lunch, half the class attended the track meet at Madeira Park Elementary. The ones who remained worked on their socials inquiries. Seven of the grade sevens (who had their consent forms returned) got to do some tandem bike training with Martin Prestage of LIFECycle. Martin will be back tomorrow morning to train the remaining grade sevens IF THEY HAD A
CONSENT FORM SIGNED AND RETURNED.
Please bring a helmet: we had to scramble today to borrow helmets so that everyone could ride. See yesterday's blog post for other clothing requirements.
Finally, I'm getting pretty excited about attending the Google Summit this weekend with my colleague from Pender Harbour Secondary, Dave Lewis. He has been spearheading an iPad initiative at Pender this year and we're looking at doing some iPad work here, next year. I see this training as necessary as we shift away from school server-based storage to cloud storage (and access). Also, more and more teachers are including the use of apps from Google Drive as a great way to differentiate a class' learning and allow for varied student output. This means that not every student will have to work on the same "work" or produce evidence of their learning using the same method. For example, one student may create a slide, while another creates an audio record, while another creates a video mash-up, while others do a collaborative report. We've started that shift this year, but we can go a lot further and then possibilities are exciting.
Remember that for phys. ed., tomorrow is our third (of four) track and field training days from 1:45-2:30.
Please ensure you have running shoes.
Today we began the day with a review of more questions from our short story Sisters. I was pleasantly surprised by the good quality examples of alliteration that were found. As often happens with this type of examination, samples were found that sort of fit the criteria, but sort of didn't. I like this type of natural learning. Today we needed to decide whether a series of similar sounds that didn't all come at the beginning of the words was still alliteration. We found it wasn't and were thus introduced to a new term: consonance. Next, Mrs. Rive came in and spoke to the class about how they approach band class before they headed off to see Mr. Grice.
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