HW for Thursday

SS: 2nd episode of 2nd Voyage of the Mimi
click here to watch

French : Quiz on Money sheet (picture side) as well as another topic that should be review.

LA: Who is Harris Burdick
Here are the pictures if you want to think more about your story.

10,000 page views!

Wow. Thanks for getting us to here. A special thanks to Jakob and Chris for pushing us over the top (from 9,782) today in computer class. Ask them how they did it (I'm sure they will tell you).

sincerely, Mr. Rollins

Why Rollodollors? Why Now?

People have asked why would we have a classroom economy?

This term in Division 1 (Division 2 is doing it as well- but with OUTBUCKS) students receive "ROLLODOLLORS"* for coming to school and are awarded for Green light behaviours. They can also apply for and hold classroom jobs where they will earn money.

However, they also have to pay Rollodollors to rent their desk and need to pay when they fail to do their work or have classroom behaviour that is not socially responsible (some yellow and all red behaviours)

Through this program, the students have fun, learn about economics, money management, have the chance to be a productive part of our classroom community and are exposed to some of the harsher realities of the real world (like taxes and property utilities).

Term 3 works perfectly for this project as the students have enough time to hold some different jobs like banker or landlord and have enough time to earn enough money to purchase their desk.

*Please note that Rollodollors is spelt that way on purpose as it forms a Palindrome (a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards).

$ spread sheet tracker

To use go to www.moneyspot.org

It's a Résumé (not a resume)

create your own

Résumé for a "future" you.

at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/templates

https://docs.google.com/templates?q=resume#

The Purpose of a Job Application

As part of our Rollodollors TM economy, we are going to look at job applications and resumes. 

From Wikipedia: 

From the employer's perspective, the application serves a number of purposes. These vary depending on the nature of the job and the preferences of the person responsible for hiring, as "each organization should have an application form that reflects its own environment". At a minimum, an application usually requires the applicant to provide information sufficient to demonstrate that he or she is legally permitted to be employed. The typical application also requires the applicant to provide information regarding relevant skills, education, and previous employment. The application itself is a minor test of the applicant's literacy, penmanship, and communication skills - a careless job applicant might disqualify themselves with a poorly-filled out application.

The application may also require the applicant to disclose any criminal record, and to provide information sufficient to enable the employer to conduct an appropriate background check. For a business that employs workers on a part-time basis, the application may inquire as to the applicant's specific times and days of availability, and preferences in this regard. It is important to note, however, that an employer may be prohibited from asking applicants about characteristics that are not relevant to the job, such as their political view or sexual orientation.

For white collar jobs, particularly those requiring communication skills, the employer will typically require applicants to accompany the form with a cover letter and a résumé. However, even employers who accept a cover letter and résumé will frequently also require the applicant to complete a form application, as the other documents may neglect to mention details of importance to the employers. In some instances, an application is effectively used to dissuade "walk-in" applicants, serving as a barrier between the applicant and a job interviewwith the person with the authority to hire.

For many businesses, applications for employment can be filled out online, and do not have to be submitted in person. However, it is still recommended that applicants bring a printed copy of their application to an interview.

Here is the PDF link for an application to work at (Canada's favourite coffee store) Click here for Tim Horton's job application

Fun stuff. Take a look!

Ben Affleck- Star of "The 2nd voyage of the Mimi"

This show is from 1984.

Here is the imdb page for the show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124265/
 and here is Ben today (he's 40 years old) :

 and his imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000255/
He is a pretty well known actor, director and writer and won an Oscar for his writing of the screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" in 1998.

Hw for Tuesday

LA: Who is Harris? Next clue. Initials "C V A"

Socials: Complete the sheet for 2nd Voyage of the Mimi part 1. You can watch it again by clicking here:
http://quietube2.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3re1ROrBZsg
Please don't go ahead to watch part 2. You can watch part 1B if you would like though.
Due Thursday

Also please complete the K and W sections of your KWL sheet. Due Thursday

Science: Bring your materials to work on your game board. Thursday will be the last in class day to work on these.

French: La maison assignment is now due.
Jack, Allen, Terry, Jenny, Sydney, Lucas, Sean and Roland yours are still due.

Who is Harris?-Mystery Solved

Coming this week.

First Clue: "Harris"
Next Clue: The initial "B"
3rd clue. Initials "C V A"

The answer is the book called: "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick". It was written by Chris Van Allsburg.

Back to School HW

Math 7: Extra Practice 1 due Wednesday
Definitions due Friday: The Facts about these words should be used, NOT the non-examples for the third quadrant
1 Equation, 2 expression, 3 variable, 4 preserving equality, 5 systematic trial, 6 balance scales model, 7 inspection (solving method)

Math 6: MMS pgs 82, 83 #1-5. Vocabulary key words. Also Bring a protractor and a compass.
Test Wednesday on Probability

English: Who is Harris? Can you solve the mystery?

Science: Bring materials for game boards to school for Tuesday

Earth Hour- March 31st

Did you know that last year Richmond was one of the top 10 cities in BC for energy reduction during this HOUR last year.

This year it takes place from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm on March 31(that is this Saturday). What are you supposed to do? Turn your lights off, tv off, computer off etc and read a book or play some non-electricity-powered games


go to www.earthhour.org for more details.

Welcome to the TomatoSphere!

After spring break we are going to be planting (and growing) some tomatoes. Some of the seeds have been to space (Experimental Group), while others have not (Control group). We will be testing the germination (successfully sprouted) rate between the 2 groups. The fun part is that we won't know which group is which until after we have submitted our results. I have done this the past 2 years with my classes and have had great tomatoes (2 years ago I had over 100 of them!) to eat when we took them home and planted them in our gardens.

These seeds were taken into space by Canadian astronauts.
Check out the website at:  http://www.tomatosphere.org/

This fits in with our extreme environments unit from term 2 but obviously we couldn't plant them right before spring break or they would die while we were on holiday.

Stay tuned!

HW for Thursday

French: Your House (La Maison) will be due after 1 more class period to work on it (Friday). If you need to work on it at home to get further along, please do so.

Science: Extreme environment board games will NOT be due before the break. Please DO BRING your materials to class on Friday though to work on your game.

Socials: Resubmit theme books on Friday if anything needed to be redone.

Socials/LA: Go to our twitter account and show your parents your story.
twitter account= @thompdivision1
Pw = division_1                              but please don't "tweet" anything.

Math 7: Extra practice 6 and chapter 8.6

Just went on our first... GeoCaching "expedition"

It was fun (and free). Definitely something you could try out over spring break. What's a geocache you ask? It's kind of like a scavenger hunt to find a hidden cache (a box/canister etc) that has been hidden by someone else. You get to use GPS to help you get to the approximate location and then you have to find the hidden item with the help of a clue.

We just downloaded a free app for our iPhone and it listed 3 geocaches near to our location. We got on our bikes and road to Terra Nova. We could not find the first one we searched for but that made it that much more exciting when my son Nolan found the second one. We signed in to the log book that was in the cache box and then went off to find the third one on our list. Mrs. Rollins quickly found this one which was a film canister sneakily hidden in a tricky location! Good times and we got lots of exercise riding up and down the dike as well. There are geocaches in over 100 countries and there's even one on the ISS (International Space Station). We can't wait to do it again.

Geocaching on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocache

BC's Geocahing website: http://www.geocaching.com/default.aspx

Go ahead and try it, you just might get hooked!

What's a Filibuster

This came up in discussion last week.

It's defined as: an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a dayor days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. (From www.dictionary.com) 

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

Apparently the first filibuster happened in Ancient Rome.

R(H)ome work for Thursday

Social Studies. Theme books due Friday (no exceptions!)

LA:  Show off your Roman stories to parents, friends and grandparents (if you are done).
Here is what you do:
Go to twitter HERE. You (or you relative) can login yourself or, if you don't have a twitter account, you can login onto our account:
thompdivision1
Password division_1 (just don't "tweet" anything while you are there visiting, please

Click on the tweet (the blue part) that has your book it will look like this:
Check out Rahul's Scribble Press book: Julius Caesar ebooks.scribblepress.com/book.htp
Then you can download your book or view it in the browser. 


Be proud and show off your work! Great job, division 1.