May 30 - June 3, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  Oral presentations on Story of Stuff into tomorrow and next week.  A significant omission from the topic sheet I am noticing is that student's have not made a judgement about the product they have researched -- should it continue to be produced or is it not worth the environmental impact?
2.  Engineering Workshop on Tuesday in the morning.
3.  Math Quiz on Measurement #2:  Tuesday, June 7 in the afternoon.

Wednesday HW
1.  MMS 6.10
2.  Quiz on Unit 9, Lessons 2,5,6,7,8 tomorrow.
3.  Oral presentations on Story of Stuff begin tomorrow afternoon.
4.  Engineering Workshop on Tuesday in the morning.
5.  Math Quiz on Measurement #2:  Tuesday, June 7 in the afternoon.

Tuesday HW
None assigned.

Monday HW
1.  MMS 6.6 and 6.7.  The students had generous amounts of tie to work on these in class today.
2.  Math Quiz on Unit 9, Lessons 2,5,6,7, and 8 on Thursday June 2.

Student Centennial movies are available for download on the class Dropbox.  The account details are available at school.  I am also able to transfer the file to a USB stick of a student brings one in.

Week of May 24- 27, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  Pizza Lunch tomorrow.
2.  Orange and Black Spirit day tomorrow.
3.  The French teacher asked for students to bring and advertisement to school tomorrow that has a focus on recycling. if possible.
4.  Centennial Fun Fair wrist bands were handed out today at the end of the day.


Wednesday HW

1.  MMS 9.10

2.  Filming ended yesterday for the Centennial day in the Life films we are making.  Students will be continuing to assemble their finished products over the next few days in time for Saturday's open house.  I am available on Thursday and Friday morning this week from 8:15 to 8:50 for those students who did not complete filming during the allotted regular class time. 

3.  There will be an engineering workshop presented by the University of Toronto on June 7 for the first three periods of the day in our classroom.

Tuesday HW

1.  MMS 9.9

2.  Filming ended today for the Centennial day in the Life films we are making.  Students will be assembling their finished products over the next few days in time for Saturday's open house.

3.  There will be an engineering workshop presented by the University of Toronto on June 7 for the first three periods of the day in our classroom.

Week of May 16 - 20, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  Props, costuming, for filming.  Tuesday will be the final day for filming.  That means the students have one 40 minute period left in which to film the scenes they want to use.  After today we've had approximately seven periods for each group to date, totaling eight periods by the end of Tuesday.  This seems like enough time when the groups had a story and story boards from which to work already.  Starting next Wednesday we will be making the movie using the clips each group has gathered (titles, transitions, credits, etc...) so that they will be ready for their world premieres in our class on Saturday, May 28 at the Centennial Fun Fair
2.  MMS 9.8

Wednesday HW
1.  Props, costuming, for filming.  Tuesday will be the final day for filming.  That means the students have two 40 minutes periods left in which to film the scenes they want to use.  We've had approximately six periods for each group to date, totaling eight.  This seems like enough time when the groups had a story and story boards from which to work already.  Starting next Wednesday we will be making the movie using the clips each group has gathered (titles, transitions, credits, etc...) so that they will be ready for their world premieres in our class on Saturday, May 28 at the Centennial Fun Fair
2.  Wrist Band orders still accepted.  Tomorrow is the due date.
3.  MMS 9.7

Wednesday HW
1.  Props, costuming, for filming.
2.  Wrist Band orders still accepted.
3.  MMS 9.6

Tuesday HW
1.  Props, costuming, for filming.
2.  Wrist Band orders still accepted.
3.  MMS 9.3

Monday HW
1.  Props, costuming, for filming.
2.  Wrist Band orders still accepted.

Week of May 9 - 13, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  Quiz 3.0 on Math Unit 8, Lessons 5 and 6.
2.  MMS 9.2
3.  Bring props, costumes for filming.

Wednesday HW
1.  Quiz 3.0 on Math Unit 8, Lessons 5 and 6.
2.  MMS 9.1
3.  Bring props, costumes for filming.

Week of May 2 - 6, 2016

Thursday HW
1.  The Story of Stuff project will begin the good copy phase early next week.
2.   MMS 8.5
3.  Change 4 Change -- thank you for your generosity!
4.  Quiz tomorrow in Math on Unit 8, Lessons 1 and 2.


Wednesday HW
1.  The Story of Stuff project will begin the good copy phase early next week.  We have had several in-class periods for research, using technology resources, to this point.  If a student feels that he/she does not have sufficient notes to start a good copy Google Doc in class next week, then this would be the homework for tonight, tomorrow and the weekend.  I try to make as little impact as possible on home life with project work but this assignment might result in some extra effort for students who find they have not used their time as effectively as possible.
If students want to use photographs, those would have to be printed at home.  I would be happy to see hand-drawn work.  Models have been on display for three weeks showing just that sort of hand done work. Black and white photocopies can also work if they are coloured with marker or pencil crayon.
2.  Change for Change fundraiser continues.

Tuesday HW
1.  MMS 8.3
2.  Change for Change fundraiser continues.


Monday HW
1.  MMS 8.3
2.  Fun Fair Open House wristband order forms went home today.  Please send any orders and money/cheques in a baggie or envelope so they will stay together.
3.  Change for Change fundraiser continues.
4.  Bring materials for French tomorrow.