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
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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