A Busy Thursday Morning!

Hello, friends of learning!

We were BUSY this morning!

Here's a quick look at what we were up to.

We started our day in Math with a short video, "If the World Were a Village."

We learned how the world's nationalities, languages, food, ages (and more!) would all be represented if the world's population were scaled down to 100 people.

Our next step will be filling out our sheets, representing the data we learned in the movie, in different tables and diagrams. When comparing things to a group of 100, we can easily determine the percent of each category. This will be the starting point for a new unit on percents, fractions and decimals.

Next, we were off to visit Mme Scham's class to play a variety of "chance" games.

The games included: rolling doubles on a pair of dice, picking a red cube from a hat (filled with mostly other-coloured cubes), and picking a Jack of hearts from a deck or cards.

We each received "$20" and could play as many games as we could in 20 minutes (or until we ran out of money). While we played the games, Mme Scham's students recorded the results of whether we won or lost. They will be analyzing the collected data as part of their Stats and Probability unit.

After 20 minutes, many of us had spent (lost) all of their money, whereas others still had a few dollars remaining. Only 1 student from our group ended up winning money ($4) !

What a fun way to learn about Math (and about how easy it is to lose money when betting)!

We ended the morning in Français with a movie!

Now that we have studied the story Le chandail de hockey and the novel Zamboni, we will be doing a listening & viewing activity with the film Les Pee Wee: l'hiver qui a changé ma vie. We will be watching the movie over the next few days and then, at the film's conclusion, will be answering questions about the theme, the characters and the main events of the story. 

Please ask me about what's happened in the movie so far.

Phew! That's it!

Great work this morning, team! :)

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Agenda Items:

1. White Out! - Tomorrow (Friday)
Wear white and/or your Jets' gear to cheer on our home team for their second play-off game!
2. Le PRINTEMPS Acrostic poems are now OVERDUE.

(Students still needing to complete their work are asked to make arrangements to
review and submit their work ASAP).
3. Ness gear is here! Happy Shopping! :)