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Hw for Tuesday

Science: Page 183 questions # 1-5 and # 8. Due Thursday. Please answer questions in your science notebook.


Art: Hand and Foot art (Ecological Footprint) is due Tuesday.

LA: Please bring in your "The Skin I'm in" Self-evaluations if you have already read your chapter. 

Costa Concordia disaster (Current Events)

A map and timeline of what happened:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/italy-cruiseship-disaster/

A neat site with diagrams of what happened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16563562

Northern Gateway (Current Events)

Flyover video of proposed route for pipeline:
http://www.northerngateway.ca/project-details/route-video/

Debate on whether Canada's Energy pipelines are safe:
http://www.themarknews.com/debates/9-debate-are-%20canada-s-energy-pipelines-safe

Surfing documentary which explores the Great Bear rainforest and looks into the possibility for environmental devastation in the event of an oil spill:
http://vimeo.com/33234007

A partial list of items made from oil (petroleum)
http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm

HW for Monday

Math 7: Finish the unit review in preparation for Friday's test. The test is on chapter 4. Reminder that there is no math on Wednesday so if you have questions, you can bring them to me all week.

Also, definitions for next chapter are due next Monday. For these, please find the definition, an example and a non-example
1) unit fraction  2) ratio  3) simplest/lowest form  4) fraction strip  5) regrouping (fractions) for 6) and 7) your job is to find any other words out there to do with fractions- but please don't reuse ones we already did from chapter 3 like numerator etc.

Math 6: Worksheet Patterning and Algebra : Solving equations.

Vancouver Giants. Bring in your form (as soon as possible) with how many tickets you would like to the Feb. 24th game.

iPad for the Weekend!

Thompson school is the proud owner of a couple of shiny new iPads and on Friday at lunch, the teachers had a draw and a couple lucky people got to take one home for the weekend. One of those lucky ones was me. At my house, we have had some fun, learned how to make folders to put apps into and played a few educational games.

My son, Nolan and I with the iPad

Please post a comment if you have a useful (Free) App that we should download.

"Bizarro Thompson Twins"

No, not the artists who had a hit way back in 1984 with  "Doctor, Doctor" but some "strangers" dropped in on Thompson today. Here is the proof:

"Frozen in Time" (Pompeii Tableaus)

Today we learnt about Pompeii and how archaeologists have learned so much about daily life in Ancient Rome from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD/CE that covered the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Here are some Tableaus of daily life in Pompeii. They are meant to represent what people were doing right as the ash hit Pompeii. The pyroclastic flows killed approximately 16.000 citizens of these neighbouring towns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79

                                            Group 1 "Harvesting"

                                             Group 2.1 "At the Baths"

                                             Group 2.2 "Also at the Baths"

Group 3 "Trying to wake up the rest of the family as the ash cloud is coming"

                                                        Group 4 "Hunting"

Group 5 "Sleeping"

Group 1 "Planking". Oh wait, planking wasn't invented in Roman Times.  

HW for Thursday

French: Quiz on Friday on Les Sports.

Math 7: # 1 and # 2 from text page 163- Do on a circle graph sheet.

Math 6: worksheets pg 114 and 115. Also, get your test signed.

LA: Finish persuasive writing 3-4 sentence monologues on topic of choice (due Friday)

Science: Finish letter to the government asking for funding for extreme environment exploration (due Friday).

Famous Dead Roman Research questions

1)   When was your figure alive? (be as specific as you can-what Emperor was ruling while they were alive)

________________________________________________________________________________

2)   When were they born? (if known)

_________________________________________________________________________________

3)   Where in the Roman Empire did they live?

_________________________________________________________________________________

4)   When did they die? (if known)

_________________________________________________________________________________

5)   What was this individual’s role/job?

_________________________________________________________________________________

6)   What is this person known for today?

_________________________________________________________________________________

7)   What (major) accomplishments did this figure facilitate?

_________________________________________________________________________________

8)   How do we know what we know about this person today?

_________________________________________________________________________________

9)   What do we know about their family/personal life?

_________________________________________________________________________________

10)                 What interesting facts do we know about this person’s life?

_________________________________________________________________________________

HW for Tuesday

Math 7: Extra Practice sheet 5 and 6 (from Monday).

Math 6: No homework

Socials: Take a look on the internet and find the names of some (dead) Romans that you would be interested in researching (learning) about. Bring me a list of names as soon as possible.

French: Using what we found today on the internet, be prepared to make your "Les Sports" poster in class on Thursday. Print out a picture (if you need to) and bring this in as well. Poster paper will be provided.

What the Ancients Knew- Videos

About Baths
What the Ancient Romans knew about Baths

About Ancient Weaponry
Weapons

About Engineering
Roads

Famous Dead Romans

Please use the internet to find the name of someone you are interested in researching.

Some possibilities include:

Cleopatra VII (Queen of Egypt)

Mark Antony

Romulus/Remus

Gaius Julius Caesar

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Marcus Junius Brutus

Cicero

Tiberius

 Caligula

 Claudius

 Nero

Titus Flavius Vespasianus (also called Vespasian)

*Trajan

*Hadrian

*Marcus Aurelius

*Antoninus Pius



Constantine 

Lucius Verus




Scipio

Commodus (also fought as a gladiator named Secutor)

*Nerva

Diocletian 

Spartacus

Virgil (author )

Livy (Titus Livius)

Catullus (poet)

Flavva

Veturia- c

Livia, (wife of Augustus)

Agrippina the Elder

Agrippina the Younger

Julia Domna

Helena (empress) also called Saint Helen

French sports poster

2	names of people who play your sport	do you/have you ever played this sport?
2	(important) rules of your sport	is your sport in the summer olympics?
2	pieces of equipment needed to play your sport	is your sport in the winter Olympics?
Any	name(s) of leagues your sport has	names of 2 last champions of your sport
2	names of teams in your sport (team sport only)
2	names of Canadians who play your sport

Canadian Scientists in space

Biographies on a couple of famous (female) scientists. There are many more ladies working in the fields of science and math field than there used to be. Maybe these 2 ladies were role models to some of the girls:

Roberta Bondar

Biography

Julie Payette



Biography


(and a link to her space journal-it's like a blog) from when she went to space in 2009
Space Journal

Memorizing Pi (as easy as pie?)

3.1415926...

If you wanted to memorize this (irrational-meaning never-ending and never-repeating) number you could use a mnemonic (a memory device) to do so.

for pi the classic memory device involves using a story/sentence where each word has the corresponding number of letters in it to match the digit of pi.

so Can (3) I (1) Have (4) A (1) Large (5) Container (9) Of (2) Coffee (6) does it for the first 7 digits beyond the decimal.

This guy (below) set out to memorize it to 100,000. He didn't quite make it, but still an amazing feat!

Lu Chao (Chinese: 吕超) from China is the recognized Guinness record holder for reciting digits of Pi. He successfully recited 67,890 digits of pi in 24 hours and 4 minutes^[1]with an error at the 67,891st digit, saying it was a "5", when it was actually a "0". He stated he had 100,000 memorized, and was going to recite 91,300, but that one mistake cost him. He is planning to write a book about the method he uses, which is based upon many Chinese memorization techniques. He says it took him about 1 year to memorize 100,000 digits. He has no plans to beat his record unless someone else does

Wikipedia Goes... Dark... (Just like my house)

We had a power outage for about an hour tonight. It was kind of neat. My family ate in the dark (we lit some candles). Then my daughter practiced her piano with help from me (and a candle). Then we brushed our teeth, read books and just before we went to sleep... The power came back on.

What does this have to do with Wikipedia you might ask? If you went to their site today (Jan. 18th) they have a message on there today (instead of their usual front page).
It says:

Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledgewledge

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.

Why did they do this? They (along with a few other websites out there) are protesting some anti-piracy (not ships on the sea, but copyright pirates) laws that the USA legislature is plans to put into place.

Here is the explanation straight from Wikipedia. I think that they would argue that I am sharing their "knowledge" in an appropriate manner and am not committing "intellectual property" copyright crime. At least, I would ilke to think so. 

What are SOPA and PIPA?

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. Detailed information about these bills can be found in the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act articles on Wikipedia, which are available during the blackout. GovTrack lets you follow both bills through the legislative process: SOPA on this page, and PIPA on this one. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.

Why is the blackout happening?

Wikipedians have chosen to black out the English Wikipedia for the first time ever, because we are concerned that SOPA and PIPA will severely inhibit people's access to online information. This is not a problem that will solely affect people in the United States: it will affect everyone around the world.

Why? SOPA and PIPA are badly drafted legislation that won't be effective at their stated goal (to stop copyright infringement), and will cause serious damage to the free and open Internet. They put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. And, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

So you can go there now (if it's still Wednesday that you are reading this) and check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

also check out this one: It's a parody of an "old" classic by Don MacLean called "American Pie".

Check out Ms. Bahd's Blog..."The Bahdcast"

There is a link on the right

                

.

Sorry, I forgot to mention this in class today. Ms. Bahd just got this up and running last night.

She says she is going to try to do 30 blog entries in 30 days (meaning at least one each day). I am betting that she will be successful.

HW for Wednesday

Math 7: Extra Practice 4

Math 6: Math Makes Sense pg 12 # 1-6. Also, Worksheet number patterns (both sides)

Social Studies: Finish finding the answers to the 10 Gladiatorial questions. You can use the internet now that you no longer have access to the library books

LA: Poetry books due in Thursday. Included should be 1) ironic poem  2) nonsense poem 3) written response to the poem of your choice and 4) two limericks (1 was the example, the 2nd your own)

HW for Tuesday

Science: Finish your extremophile chart and drawing/diagram. Be sure to include some of the surrounding environment that it lives in. Due Thursday.

HCAPP:
Continue to work on your Vancouver Giants Read to Succeed program. 

Drive Basketball Blog

BOys and girls, check out the videos on this blog to help improve your basketball skills

http://drivebasketball.wordpress.com/

And one that was suggested by Thompson user "A LARGE BEAR"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRmpclrDro&feature=channel_video_title

Making Mosaics (on our computer)

n.co.uk/jo/mosaic/index.htm
A neat website about mosaics:
http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/index.shtml

And where we are going to make one (that we will use later)
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/mosaic/index.htm

Vancouver Giants "Read to Succeed" Program

Beginning today and lasting for 14 days, we will be doing a program sponsored by the Vancouver Giants. The idea is that students will read for 15 minutes each day (minimum) as well as do at least 30 minutes each day of physical exercise. 2 Vancouver Giants players came to our school today to discuss the program.

All successful Thompson students (divisions 1 through 4 are participating) will receive a ticket to a Giants game in February.

#12 Cain Franson (from Sicamous, BC) http://www.vancouvergiants.com/roster/show/id/6807

# 4 Tyler Vanscourt (from Corona, California) http://www.vancouvergiants.com/roster/show/id/1688

You can check out these player bios or go to the Vancouver Giants website to do some neat things on the kids club page

http://www.vancouvergiants.com/kidsclub


Go Giants Go.

HW for Monday

Math 7: Highlighted (left side) of sheet. It's called Extra Practice 3. Due Wednesday.

Math 6: No Homework!

Band:  Bring notice in. 


Vancouver Giants Read to Succeed begins today (and goes for 2 weeks)

More on Bottled Water

After watching "Tapped" this week, the interest in the "bottled water debate" has grown.

Here is a great (and informative) cartoon put together by Annie Leonard and her "Story of Stuff" team

check it out.

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water/

If you enjoy it, there are a few others as well.
1) what happens to your old electronics when you're finished with them
2) what kind of stuff goes into the cosmetics you use

HW for Wednesday

Language Arts:
1) Bring your poem to read/record into the Garageband
2) ironic poem due Thursday
3) nonsense poem due Friday

Math 7: Mid unit review (pg 138) due Friday in preparation for the quiz on chapters 4.1 and 4.2

Math 6: Worksheets pg 57 and 67

HW for Tuesday

Math 7: Extra Practice 4.2 Due Wednesday

Math 6: MathMakesSense pg 15 and 16 #1-11

Social Studies: Roman Soldier sheets- due Friday

Language Arts: Poetry definitions due Wednesday.
Ironic poem due Thursday (we may have a bit of class time to work on this on Wednesday)

Grade 7's: FSA notices

Your Ecological "Footprint"

from Wikipedia: The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems.  It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to supply the resources a human population consumes, and to assimilate associated waste.


What are we doing about it? Tomorrow we are going to do an art activity that delves into that. We will also reflect on how we impact our environment and what we can do as (individuals/families/a school) to reduce our ecological footprint. 


Remember that every day (and not just April 22) should be "Earth Day" 

Another new Text twist high score

56,570

Roman Mosaic Art

check out this gallery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/mosaics_gallery_01.shtml

And some history about mosaics.
http://www.how-to-make-mosaics.com/roman-mosaics/

(if you hadn't guessed, we are going to be working on these in art in the near future...

Quite the Canucks game

If only all regular season contests featured that much intensity. WOW. Great to get the win. I hope that Sami is ok though. That was a dirty play by Brad Marchand. Fortunately the Canucks made him pay by scoring a couple on that power play.

Daddy's Day Poem

See what your parents feel about this one if they have the time to read it. I think it's pretty moving (speaking as a father)

Her hair up in a ponytail, her favorite dress tied with a bow

Today was Daddy’s Day at school, and she couldn’t wait to go

But her mommy tried to tell her, that she probably should stay home

Why the kids might not understand, if she went to school alone.

But she was not afraid; she knew just what to say


What to tell her classmates, on this Daddy’s Day


But still her mother worried, for her to face this day alone


And that was why once again, she tried to keep her daughter home
.

But the little girl went to school, eager to tell them all


About a dad she never sees, a dad who never calls




There were daddies along the wall in back, for everyone to meet


Children squirming impatiently, anxious in their seats.

One by one the teacher called, a student from the class


To introduce their daddy, as seconds slowly passed


At last the teacher called her name, every child turned to stare


Each of them were searching, for a man that wasn’t there.

“Where’s her daddy at?” She heard a boy call out


“She probably doesn’t have one.” Another student dared to shout


And from somewhere near the back, she heard a daddy say


“Looks like another deadbeat dad, too busy to waste his day.”






The words did not offend her, as she smiled at her friends


And looked back at her teacher, who told her to begin


And with hands behind her back, slowly she began to speak


And out from the mouth of a child, came words incredibly unique.

“My Daddy couldn’t be here, because he lives so far away


But I know he wishes he could be, with me on this day


And though you cannot meet him, I wanted you to know


All about my daddy, and how much he loves me so.

  

He loved to tell me stories, he taught me to ride my bike


He surprised me with pink roses, and he taught me to fly a kite


We used to share fudge sundaes, and ice cream in a cone


And though you cannot see him, I’m not standing all alone.

‘Cause my daddy’s always with me, even though we are apart


I know because he told me, he’ll forever be here in my heart”




With that her little hand reached up, and lay across her chest


Feeling her own heartbeat, beneath her favorite dress.

And from somewhere in the crowd of dads, her mother stood in tears


Proudly watching her daughter, who was wise beyond her years


For she stood up for the love, of a man not in her life


Doing what was best for her, doing what was right.




And when she dropped her hand back down, staring straight into the crowd



She finished with a voice so soft, but its message clear and loud



“I love my daddy very much, he’s my shining star


And if he could he’d be here, but heavens just too far.

But sometimes when I close my eyes, it’s like he never went away”


And then she closed her eyes, and saw him there that day


And to her mother’s amazement, she witnessed with surprise


A room full of daddies and children, all starting to close their eyes.




Who knows what they saw before them, who knows what they felt inside


Perhaps for merely a second, they saw him at her side


“I know you’re with me daddy.” To the silence she called out


And what happened next made believers, of those once filled with doubt.

Not one in that room could explain it, for each of their eyes had been closed


But there placed on her desktop, was a beautiful fragrant pink rose


And a child was blessed, if only a moment, by the love of her shining bright star


And given the gift of believing, that heaven is never too far.

Cheryl Costello-Forshey
Copyright © 2000
Cannot be

HW for Thursday

LA: Poetry definitions (onomatopoeia, quatrain, sonnet, personification, consonance, alliteration, limerick, verse, couplet (rhyme) and epic (poem). Due next week.

iPODs due Monday.

Math 7: Bring a Compass to school (circle making device).

Socials: Theme-book. 12 Definitions due next Tuesday (you've done 6 already)
Map due Friday (tomorrow). About the Author due next Thursday.

A song about Circles

For Grade 7 Math

http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4SUypJZxo

HW for Wednesday

Science: Study for test by doing the assigned questions

Math 7: Definitions. Due Monday: 1) radius  2) circumference 3) diameter  4) pi  5) sector  6) irrational number  7) central angle/sector angle

*Please do the definition, example and Facts/characteristics as the 3 sections (not a non-example) this time

Math 6:  Textbook page 155-156, #1-8
Show What you know # 11-15 pg 162 and 163


English: iPods due Monday

A New Text Twist High Score

50,870. I was stumped by the word "DICKER". Not even sure what that means.

Update: Dicker means to barter/trade
 Definition: to try to arrange matters by mutual bargaining: They dickered for hours over some of the finer points of the contract.

What is Jai Alai?

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L6_-hWy48

HW for Tuesday (yes, there's HW on the 1st day back)

Science: Study and prepare your answers for the 4 questions for Thursday's test

Socials: Due Thursday in your themebook:
 1) KW(L) What you "Know" about Ancient Rome
2) KW (L) What you "Wonder" about Ancient Rome
3) 6 definitions. Use the internet to locate (Ancient Roman) Definitions for these words
barbarians
aqueduct
Senate
Republic
plebeians
cauldarium/frigidarium/tepidarium

2001 Trip to Pompeii

Pompeii, covered by lava and the nearby town of Herculaneum, covered by the ash from the large volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 CE (A.D.)

Cast of a person buried by the lava from the volcano

                
                                              What Pompeii looks like today

      
                         Stepping stones are a cross walk but also allow carts to get by on the road

                                                           a public restroom

  
                                                 What Pompeii looked like in 79 CE