Monday, May 28, 2012

Treaty Survey

The following link is for the Treaty Essential Learnings Survey. Grade 7's need to complete the survey before Friday, June 1st. It's pretty straightforward.

Log in to the following site:
https://bbtest.edonline.sk.ca/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp

User name: firstname.lastname
Password: mmdd (month in number form and day in number form - Ex. If your birthdate is March 12, your password is 0312).

Once logged in, select English or French. Select English.

After you have completed the questions on the first page, click on page two or "next". Your responses are automatically saved when you move to the next page. All questions must be complete before you move on. If you are not able to complete the survey in one sitting, you can return to it later.

You can go back to complete previous pages by clicking on "previous".

Once you are finished, click on "Complete". No further changes to your answers can be made after you click on "Complete".

Monday's Homework

Math 8
A: up to 7
B: up to 9
C: up to 11

ELA Section 3 complete the reading
Section 2 post on kidblog and post your "Rant" on Fakebook.

Social - all questions are to be completed... study for this unit test.

Science - Project lots of work... due week of June 5th... yep that's next week!

Grade 8 Math Assignment

9.3 Linear Relationships
Show you Know p. 355

Summarizing the Key Ideas p. 356
How are equations and expressions similar? Different? See p. 355

9.3 Assignment: p. 357 due: Thursday, May 31
Level A: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14
Level B: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17
Level C: 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Social Studies Connection

In Saskatchewan, First Nations people created effigies to pay homage to the important animals of the land. Some of the animal effigies included the buffalo, the deer, the turtle to even humans...

In Peru, the First Nations or Indigenous people of South America did a similar thing by creating sand drawings to pay homage to different animals.

Note the materials used by the First Nations people of these regions. Why would these materials be chosen? Why were these animals paid tribute? When were these images created by these Indigenous cultures? Why were the images created to be seen from the air?? Why were these images created? What was the purpose?