Pocket Market Success!
Poems for Two Voices- Final Version Due!
Review the criteria:
-At least three stanzas
-Two lines minimum written in unison
-A dialogue between two people, places, or things
- Strong, precise verbs
- A conclusion that echoes or emphasizes something important in your poem.
- typed or written for display.
Your best work is due tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Quiz on the Refugee Crisis on Wednesday, Dec. 8th
Please review your map and two articles, "Canada and Refugees" and "Europe's Refugee Crisis".
Vocab: refugee, migrant, United Nations, Asylum, extreme poverty, and civil war.
Map: What is one migration route through Europe to Germany?
Ideas: Germany's and Hungary's response to the refugee crisis, Canada's record on refugees, the pros and cons to accepting refugees for Canada.
Good Luck!
This clip may be helpful too:
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Vocab: refugee, migrant, United Nations, Asylum, extreme poverty, and civil war.
Map: What is one migration route through Europe to Germany?
Ideas: Germany's and Hungary's response to the refugee crisis, Canada's record on refugees, the pros and cons to accepting refugees for Canada.
Good Luck!
This clip may be helpful too:
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Khan Academy
Our students have just been introduced to Khan Academy Math as a fun way to give them extra practice and access to additional math tutorials. https://www.khanacademy.org/
Our class code is: 359C6R
Students have signed up to access our class group using their email account. If you do not wish for them to be signed up please contact us and we will remove them from the group.
Our class code is: 359C6R
Students have signed up to access our class group using their email account. If you do not wish for them to be signed up please contact us and we will remove them from the group.
Poems for Two Voices- draft due Dec. 8
Please prepare a draft poem that will be ready for use in our feedback session tomorrow.
Criteria:
- compare and contrast two people,ideas, objects, or things in s free verse poem
- compose at least 3 stanzas for each voice
- Use at least two hook lines that are written in unison.
Happy Writing!
The Vancouver Art Gallery and our art inspired by First Nations art techniques
Division 1 spent last Wednesday at the Vancouver Art Gallery learning about First Nations arts and culture. They learned how to craft specific symbols and shapes to put on their art creatures. They used the U-shape, ovoid and other interesting shapes to replicate professional first nations art. They created beavers, bears, wolves, hummingbirds and other animals through their imagination and creativity. They were interested in learning about First Nations people, and were very enthusiastic to draw the animals and explore the wonderful shapes and colours.
Eric Hamber Parent Orientation Meeting Tonight at 6pm
Eric Hamber Parent Orientation Meeting Tonight at 6-8pm in the Eric Hamber Secondary Auditorium.
Math Test- Thursday, November 26th
Be prepared for the unit 2 test on patterns in algebra this Thursday. Be sure to review pages 25-50 in your workbook.
Science Test on Thursday Dec. 3rd
Students have an Earth Science Quiz on Thursday December 3rd.
Key areas of study include: Plate Tectonics, Pangea, Earth's Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core, Major and Minor Tectonic Plates, Plate Boundaries.
All test questions will come from class worksheets, notes and handouts.
Key areas of study include: Plate Tectonics, Pangea, Earth's Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, Outer Core, Major and Minor Tectonic Plates, Plate Boundaries.
All test questions will come from class worksheets, notes and handouts.
MOM 2 MOM Items still needed! DEADLINE NOVEMBER 23rd
Division 1, you've done a great job at getting started on Stacey's wish list, thank you!
We are still in need of a number of clothing items and some shoes too.
Please go to perfectpotluck.com to see the latest version of what is needed.
USERNAME: Edith Cavell
PASSWORD: 2016
We are still in need of a number of clothing items and some shoes too.
Please go to perfectpotluck.com to see the latest version of what is needed.
USERNAME: Edith Cavell
PASSWORD: 2016
Homework! Mom 2 Mom Guesstimate and Math
Please use technology to create a :"guesstimate" budget for a family of four living in Vancouver. Mme. Ashley is coming in to talk to us all about it tomorrow.
Math- complete exercises up tp page 35.
Math- complete exercises up tp page 35.
Remembrance Day Assembly
Division 1, you did a fantastic job singing with our two buddy classes. It was a solemn but hopeful message.
Fibonacci is Fantastic!
We continue to be fascinated with all the ways the equation is used in nature. It creates the spirals you see in trilliums and an elephant's trunk and explains bee ancestry too.
This video explains our wonder with Fibonacci:
This video explains our wonder with Fibonacci:
Eric Hamber Orientation
Gr 7 Students from Cavell will be attending an orientation session at Eric Hamber on Thursday morning. Students will be given a chance to tour the school and learn about their programs. Students need to arrange for their own transportation to the school but will walk back to Cavell as a group after the session. Please be sure to arrive prior to 8:45 and meet in the Eric Hamber Auditorium.
Volleyball Games Begin Tomorrow!
Senior Boys volleyball games start tomorrow at Shaughnessy Elementary.
Senior Girls begin this Thursday.
Unit 1 Math Test- This Wednesday, November 4th
Please take your workbooks home to review the number sense concepts from unit 1. Please have today's ANIE quiz signed by your parents.
"I am From" poems- the good copy is due Friday, October 30th
Please polish your "Where I'm From" poems by Friday, October 30th. They are going on display outside our classroom next week. Your drafts were excellent so show me your best polished work with the good copy. Submit your poem typed or in pen on white paper.
Your assignment will be assessed using the BC Performance Standards:
Your assignment will be assessed using the BC Performance Standards:
We Scare Hunger- Food Drive
Let's scare hunger this Halloween. Grade 7s are challenged to bring a total of 250 cans of food to school by Friday, October 30th. The prize? Many more well nourished low income families in our city and a Halloween party for the class. Let's be generous!
Homework Update
Genius Hour Group Pitch on Tuesday
Current Events Person #3 on Thursday
Literature Circle Package due on Thursday
Political Cartoon due on Thursday
Current Events Person #3 on Thursday
Literature Circle Package due on Thursday
Political Cartoon due on Thursday
Grad Hoodies
This year our Grade 7's are being given the oppurtunity to deisgn their Grad Hoodies. All entries are due on November 2nd. We look forward to seeing your creative entries!
Homework
- Hatchet connector sheets and Reading Logs are both due tomorrow.
- Last call for Genius Hour conferences- this Friday
Ice Cream and Gratitude
Europe's Refugee Crisis: Mapping Homework due tomorrow!
Please finish your map of Europe. Pay close attention to the instructions and make sure that all of the places properly labelled and coloured in. This assignment is due on Wednesday, October 14th. Please reread the homework policy too.
Magee Open House Date Change for Sparts and Leaders program
Please note that Magee has changed their Information Night for SPARTS and their Leaders program from Oct. 15th to Oct. 29th.
The new date is October 29th for information about SPARTS and Leaders Programs at Magee. The SPARTS presentation will begin at 6:00 pm and the Leaders Programs will begin at 7:00 pm.
The new date is October 29th for information about SPARTS and Leaders Programs at Magee. The SPARTS presentation will begin at 6:00 pm and the Leaders Programs will begin at 7:00 pm.
The Gratitude Graffiti Project
In Life 101 ( aka and Health and Career), we began talking about gratitude today. We compared the triggers for "fight or flight" and those for "rest and digest". We are working on gratitude as a way of helping us be more mindful, calm and happy. Here is our view on what happens in the body in these two states. Next stop, joining the Gratitude Graffiti Project at Rain or Shine this coming Tuesday.
If you'd like to make a gratitude stop, here is a list of who is participating:
http://thegratitudegraffitiproject.com/2015/09/20/vancouver-bc-get-your-gratitude-on-with-these-24-gratitude-stops/
If you'd like to make a gratitude stop, here is a list of who is participating:
http://thegratitudegraffitiproject.com/2015/09/20/vancouver-bc-get-your-gratitude-on-with-these-24-gratitude-stops/
Classroom Homework Policy
While we don't give a lot of homework, when we do, it's important to get it done.
Here is our policy
Missed assignments: When we give homework, we expect it to be done. We want to build good study habits and organizational skills.
If you cannot complete your homework for a valid reason ( appointment, illness, planned absence, lack of knowledge in how to complete the work), please let the teacher know and provide a note from your parent as early as possible. We will work with you to complete the assignment and arrange a new deadline. All parties will be aware of the new plan.
If you have simply forgotten to do it, you will lose 10% of the mark. The work will need to be completed as soon as possible. Your parent will also be informed of the new plan. If the pattern is chronic, we will arrange a meeting with all parties.
Here is our policy
Missed assignments: When we give homework, we expect it to be done. We want to build good study habits and organizational skills.
If you cannot complete your homework for a valid reason ( appointment, illness, planned absence, lack of knowledge in how to complete the work), please let the teacher know and provide a note from your parent as early as possible. We will work with you to complete the assignment and arrange a new deadline. All parties will be aware of the new plan.
If you have simply forgotten to do it, you will lose 10% of the mark. The work will need to be completed as soon as possible. Your parent will also be informed of the new plan. If the pattern is chronic, we will arrange a meeting with all parties.
Div 1 Elects NDP!
Our class did an election prior to learning about the different party platforms. We are going to do another election at the end of our unit and see if our results differ. Here are the first election results:
NDP: 12 votes
Green Party: 8 Votes
Liberal Party: 6 Votes
Conservative Party: 4 Votes
At home you and your family could try out this interesting survey called Vote Compass. It evaluates your answers and determines which party has smilar views.
https://votecompass.cbc.ca/
NDP: 12 votes
Green Party: 8 Votes
Liberal Party: 6 Votes
Conservative Party: 4 Votes
At home you and your family could try out this interesting survey called Vote Compass. It evaluates your answers and determines which party has smilar views.
https://votecompass.cbc.ca/
Homework: Math Quiz Tomorrow!
Review your JUMP Math Package for tomorrow's quiz. Review the concepts for an hour maximum. Here's our web on the value of math in "real life".
September 29th Update and Homework
We are looking forward to meeting with you and your parents this week for Goal Setting Conferences!
Upcoming Homework:
Fractions Math Package Due Friday
Fractions Quiz Friday
Current Events Group Member #1
Upcoming Homework:
Fractions Math Package Due Friday
Fractions Quiz Friday
Current Events Group Member #1
Terry Fox: A Canadian Hero
Today was the Terry Fox assembly. Division 1 did a fantastic job as MC's and speakers! All families are invited to make a pledge to the Terry Fox Foundation. Our goal is $5,000 this year and the deadline is Friday. If we reach our goal, Mr. Baldwin will be growing a mustache for Movember!
Here is the link for donating:
1. Visit the website http://www.terryfox.org
2. Click on National School Run Day
3. Click on give to a student
4. On the new screen, type Edith Cavell Elementary into the search for a school entry box
5. Click on the Edith Cavell Elementary, Vancouver BC link below
6. Click Sponsor US and fill out the appropriate from (contact and payment info)
7. Click continue
Here are Dane and Anna speaking to the crowd:
Here is the link for donating:
1. Visit the website http://www.terryfox.org
2. Click on National School Run Day
3. Click on give to a student
4. On the new screen, type Edith Cavell Elementary into the search for a school entry box
5. Click on the Edith Cavell Elementary, Vancouver BC link below
6. Click Sponsor US and fill out the appropriate from (contact and payment info)
7. Click continue
Here are Dane and Anna speaking to the crowd:
Blog post by: Omri Levy and Steven Kahnert
Screen Time: What are the benefits and disadvantages?
We began our three-step write today. This is a process where students brainstorm, discuss, ask questions, share, and then write a first draft, multi-paragraph piece.
Our topic, "Screen time: benefits and drawbacks" certainly generated a lot of ideas.
Our topic, "Screen time: benefits and drawbacks" certainly generated a lot of ideas.
We asked deep questions about screen time and technology. Here is some of our thinking.
Tomorrow, students will have 45 minutes to write their pieces.
30 Wishes in Stones
We started our Writer's Workshop this week with wishing stones I brought back from Hornby Island. After some brainstorming and revising, each student contributed their favourite lines to this collaborative poem. Can you see it, hear it, and feel it? Which lines are yours?
30 Wishes in Stone by Division 1
Imagine a wishing stone
Footsteps on a pebble road
The pitter patter of rain hitting the shingles of a house
A frozen marble, smooth and round with an icy top layer
Like a jelly bean with a mouth
Or an egg about to crack.
The clack of a pot hitting the table
like lightning bolts striking across the midnight sky.
My stone sounds like a metronome
Like a beautiful solar system with shooting stars and lots
of light.
Like a gorgeous circle around a delightful sun
Like a grey skull with a white golden strip that cascades
from the ear to the back of the neck, sparkling in the sunlight.
Or a night sky with lightning
Imagine a wishing stone
With pale grey speckles dotting the surface
Like the first snowfall on Christmas Eve
A map with many roads going in different directions
Like a gray and white snakehead
A wet dog that just came out of the lake.
A starry sky that has been captured in stone.
Imagine a wishing stone
Like a pink jelly bean
Or a racetrack
Like rumbling thunder over the mountains, far and distant,
yet crying out to be heard.
Like an old pop can covered in spider’s strings
A knock on an aluminum door
A planet in space with rings of dust and meteors circling it
A galaxy swirling
Shaped like an internal organ.
Imagine a wishing stone
that feels cold and smooth like ice on the brink of cracking
That sounds like wood being sawn in half
Like smooth petrified oak
Like someone hammering a nail
My stone looks like a warped helmet
Looks like it has a green glow
And smells like it has been dropped from a pelican’s veiny
feet
Into a salty, rough, waterfall.
Imagine our stones
Thirty wishes whispering in palms.
Growth Mindset
Yesterday in class students began learning about the Growth Mindset. Here are some links that explain what that is:
Test your own Mindset with this:
Growth Mindset Quiz
Test your own Mindset with this:
Growth Mindset Quiz
Welcome to Grade 7 Letter
Dear Parents and Students,
Welcome to Grade 7!
We have been busy this summer planning for an amazing year in Division1! We are both very excited to work together with your children this year.
About Us:
Ms. House
This is my second year at Cavell. I began teaching as a high school French Immersion and English teacher. Once I saw the power of teaching students to write from their own experiences and to write well, I was hooked. I returned to UBC and did a Masters in teaching creative writing to kids. I believe being able to express yourself and make your voice part of the curriculum is essential. I use writer’s and reader’s workshops as a way to get to know students and build community and choice in the classroom. More recently, I have been a Literacy Mentor, taught grade 6/7, core French and Resource/ Gifted Education.
In my spare time, I help teachers participating in a poetry initiative called Poetry In Voice and hang out with my three kids (11, 7, and 7).
I can’t wait to meet this year’s class!
Mr. Baldwin
I have worked as a teacher librarian, physical education, Resource and intermediate classroom teacher. This is my fourth year at Cavell and I am very excited about teaching grade 7 with Ms. House this year. The grad class of 2016 is a great group of students and we are both excited to engage them in exciting curricular and extra-curricular activities throughout the year. I have a Bachelors degree in Human Kinetics, Education and an additional literacy/librarianship certificate from UBC. I have grown up being heavily involved in sports and see the significant value that athletics plays in developing well-rounded students. Students will have many athletic opportunities in and outside of class this year.
Housekeeping and Organization:
All students will be receiving an agenda book in which they will write assignment information, keep field trip forms, etc. If you wish to arrange a meeting with the teacher or have a question, you may write it in the agenda.
All students will be responsible for keeping our class clean and organized. In September, students will be asked to bring a plant, a box of Kleenex, or a box of wipes for this purpose. Please check your child’s agenda for this information.
Goals for This Year:
Personal and Social: Students will thrive as individuals and learn to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.
For example: Students will read “I am” poems and then respond by writing their own poems depicting their personal culture and identities.
Creative and Critical Thinking: Students will take concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. The thinking goal includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind, and metacognitive awareness.
For example:
-In our classroom, an hour a week will be set aside as “Genius Hour”, a time when students can pursue their own interests by working on projects of their own choosing.
-Students learn about environmental issues (i.e. water shortages, site C) in current events and develop their own questions and alternative solutions.
Communication: Students will express and exchange information, experiences and ideas in order to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media.
For example: Students write their own blog entries related to topics they are studying, and on current issues in their classroom and beyond.
Field Trips:
We believe that it’s important to learn in our classroom but in our extended environment too!
Evans Lake: Students will be heading to Camp Evans Lake in June 2016. There will be more information and a meeting for parents at the end of September.
Vancouver International Writers Festival: Real writers are coming to Vancouver in October and we are going to enjoy a day with them on Granville Island.
Vancouver Art Gallery: We will be enhancing our arts instruction by visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery each term. We will be learning about the Canadian landscape as inspiration for the Group of Seven and Emily Carr, viewing recent acquisitions of First Nations Northwest Coast art works, and exploring Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture.
Amazing Race: Combining communication, creative thinking and problem solving skills, students will embark in teams on a daylong amazing race across the city in the spring (parent volunteers, we’ll need you for this one!)
Homework:
We hope that you share our thinking that students should generally use after school and weekends to engage in other types of learning such as sports, arts, play or family time.
Homework is only assigned to our students if they are not able to complete work previously taught in class. However, larger projects may require research and additional time at home.
Missed assignments: When we give homework, we expect it to be done. If you cannot complete your homework for a valid reason ( appointment, illness, planned absence), please let the teacher know and provide a note from your parent. We will arrange a new deadline. If you have simply forgotten to do it, you will lose 10% and it will need to be completed as soon as possible. Your parent will also be informed of the new plan.
How to Reach Us:
We’ll be posting most pertinent information on our blog.
Please check here first:
http://div1cavell.blogspot.ca
The best way to reach one or both of us is by email (addresses below). Alternately, you may write a note in your child’s agenda. Please be sure that your child shows us the note as we will not be checking all agendas on a daily basis.
We also have common prep period and share information about the class regularly.
We sincerely hope that your child will have an engaging and enjoyable year!
Ms. House (Mon/Tues/Wed) Mr. Baldwin (Wed p.m./Thurs/Fri)
lhouse@vsb.bc.ca ebbaldwin@vsb.bc.ca
Welcome to Grade 7!
We have been busy this summer planning for an amazing year in Division1! We are both very excited to work together with your children this year.
About Us:
Ms. House
This is my second year at Cavell. I began teaching as a high school French Immersion and English teacher. Once I saw the power of teaching students to write from their own experiences and to write well, I was hooked. I returned to UBC and did a Masters in teaching creative writing to kids. I believe being able to express yourself and make your voice part of the curriculum is essential. I use writer’s and reader’s workshops as a way to get to know students and build community and choice in the classroom. More recently, I have been a Literacy Mentor, taught grade 6/7, core French and Resource/ Gifted Education.
In my spare time, I help teachers participating in a poetry initiative called Poetry In Voice and hang out with my three kids (11, 7, and 7).
I can’t wait to meet this year’s class!
Mr. Baldwin
I have worked as a teacher librarian, physical education, Resource and intermediate classroom teacher. This is my fourth year at Cavell and I am very excited about teaching grade 7 with Ms. House this year. The grad class of 2016 is a great group of students and we are both excited to engage them in exciting curricular and extra-curricular activities throughout the year. I have a Bachelors degree in Human Kinetics, Education and an additional literacy/librarianship certificate from UBC. I have grown up being heavily involved in sports and see the significant value that athletics plays in developing well-rounded students. Students will have many athletic opportunities in and outside of class this year.
Housekeeping and Organization:
All students will be receiving an agenda book in which they will write assignment information, keep field trip forms, etc. If you wish to arrange a meeting with the teacher or have a question, you may write it in the agenda.
All students will be responsible for keeping our class clean and organized. In September, students will be asked to bring a plant, a box of Kleenex, or a box of wipes for this purpose. Please check your child’s agenda for this information.
Goals for This Year:
Personal and Social: Students will thrive as individuals and learn to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.
For example: Students will read “I am” poems and then respond by writing their own poems depicting their personal culture and identities.
Creative and Critical Thinking: Students will take concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. The thinking goal includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind, and metacognitive awareness.
For example:
-In our classroom, an hour a week will be set aside as “Genius Hour”, a time when students can pursue their own interests by working on projects of their own choosing.
-Students learn about environmental issues (i.e. water shortages, site C) in current events and develop their own questions and alternative solutions.
Communication: Students will express and exchange information, experiences and ideas in order to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media.
For example: Students write their own blog entries related to topics they are studying, and on current issues in their classroom and beyond.
Field Trips:
We believe that it’s important to learn in our classroom but in our extended environment too!
Evans Lake: Students will be heading to Camp Evans Lake in June 2016. There will be more information and a meeting for parents at the end of September.
Vancouver International Writers Festival: Real writers are coming to Vancouver in October and we are going to enjoy a day with them on Granville Island.
Vancouver Art Gallery: We will be enhancing our arts instruction by visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery each term. We will be learning about the Canadian landscape as inspiration for the Group of Seven and Emily Carr, viewing recent acquisitions of First Nations Northwest Coast art works, and exploring Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture.
Amazing Race: Combining communication, creative thinking and problem solving skills, students will embark in teams on a daylong amazing race across the city in the spring (parent volunteers, we’ll need you for this one!)
Homework:
We hope that you share our thinking that students should generally use after school and weekends to engage in other types of learning such as sports, arts, play or family time.
Homework is only assigned to our students if they are not able to complete work previously taught in class. However, larger projects may require research and additional time at home.
Missed assignments: When we give homework, we expect it to be done. If you cannot complete your homework for a valid reason ( appointment, illness, planned absence), please let the teacher know and provide a note from your parent. We will arrange a new deadline. If you have simply forgotten to do it, you will lose 10% and it will need to be completed as soon as possible. Your parent will also be informed of the new plan.
How to Reach Us:
We’ll be posting most pertinent information on our blog.
Please check here first:
http://div1cavell.blogspot.ca
The best way to reach one or both of us is by email (addresses below). Alternately, you may write a note in your child’s agenda. Please be sure that your child shows us the note as we will not be checking all agendas on a daily basis.
We also have common prep period and share information about the class regularly.
We sincerely hope that your child will have an engaging and enjoyable year!
Ms. House (Mon/Tues/Wed) Mr. Baldwin (Wed p.m./Thurs/Fri)
lhouse@vsb.bc.ca ebbaldwin@vsb.bc.ca
Welcome to our Class!
We are both very excited to be your grade 7 teachers! In order to help you be more organized and mature students, we have created this classroom blog. On this blog we will post important homework assignments and classroom dates. This blog will also provide us a place to showcase some of the hard work that you are all doing.
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Division 1, you did a fantastic job singing with our two buddy classes. It was a solemn but hopeful message. -
Please take your workbooks home to review the number sense concepts from unit 1. Please have today's ANIE quiz signed by your parents.