Happy 14th Birthday to Yasha and Colton

I chose this picture of a Canadian Women's Soccer Team player for your birthday because I think you are such an incredible athlete with a special talent in running and soccer. 

I pray your birthday is great, Yasha!  I am so glad you have come back to our school because you are an important part of our family.  May your 14th year be filled with great things from the Lord. 

Now to our Birthday Boy - COLTON! 

I know you like to give hugs and I know you like midgets, so I tried to find a picture that would put the 2 together.  This is what I found:

You are another person who has been added to this class this year who we couldn't do without!  You bring love and laughter to our class and we appreciate you.  I especially love your hugs and your great sense of humour.  May this next year of your life continue to bring you laughs with friends, tons of hugs and more creative ways of including midgets in your writing.  :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ZOE!

This Puking Unicorn would like to say Happy Birthday to Zoe but he can't because he is busy puking. 

I also want to say Happy Birthday to Zoe! 

Zoe - you make me smile!  One of my favourite moments with you this year was singing this song:

There are so many wonderful things about you Zoe.  I pray that the Lord will continue to fill you up with all His love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control! 

and again I say:

Love,
Mrs. Robideau
Annie and Ben say Happy Birthday too!

Some Pictures from the Field Trip

"The Fault in Our Bars" - created for Drama 7/8/9

Homework Sheet May 24th to May 29th

Grade 7 Homework Sheet

Monday, May 25^th to Friday, May 29^th

Announcements:  

·        Our grade 7/8 Overnight Field Trip to Revelstoke was a huge success!   A humongous thank you to Lori Taetz and Carrie Despres for doing such a great job planning all the food on this trip.  You were much appreciated by everyone. 

·         KCC Relate Youth – Outdoor Movie Night at KCC.  This will be the final supper at the Robideaus for this school year and we are going to eat up all the wonderful left over food from our retreat, so come on over for hot dogs, potato salad and dessert!

·        You should have all received an email from me introducing Mr. Roy Hannem who will be teaching while I join the GCP team in Mexico. 

Bible Memory – We have learned the following verses this year: Luke 24:6-7, Romans 12:2, Mark 12: 28- 31, 1 Tim 4:12, Ephesians 2: 8-10, Romans 8:1,2 and John 1:12.  As a final Bible project, your assignment is to choose ONE of these verses for a 70% - 80% grade, TWO of these for 80% - 90% and THREE 90% - 100% display it(them) in some artistic manner.  Eg. Poster, Power Point, Calligraphy, Coloring, Drawing

Weekly Challenge –  Help cook a meal or make a healthy snack for your whole family one day this week.

Extra Math Help – This will have to be put on hold until I get back from Mexico. It will turn into “Study Help for Final Exams” on Wednesday, June 10^th.

English  –  How are you doing on your Reading Pyramid?  These are due any time.  I already have quite a few, but those of you still trying to finish off the last few books need to have this finished by the first day of final exams on Monday, June 15^th.  We are also still working on our short stories.  

NHI's

Hello Everyone,

As we near the end of the year and gear up for Final Exams, it's important that students get caught up on work that may have been missed due to absences or neglect.  I am going through students achieve and changing ABS's (absent) to NHI's (not handed in).  This will result in a change in a student's mark since NHI's record as a 0%.

Here is the list of students missing recent Science Work: 

Rock Cycle Quiz (done online - students can keep doing it until they get a mark they like)
Zoe, Mackenzie, Brian, Yasha, Chloe, Morgan, Lauren, Christianna, Lorien

Geology Matching Quiz ( written Thursday)
Micah, Mackenzie Kaylie, Christianna

Wounded Spirits (HACE)
Brian, Yasha, Jared

Mass/Volume/Density Quiz (Science) 
Ethan, Lauren, Mark

Non Fiction Reading (English)
Micah, Mackenzie


Social Studies 
Writing on the Wall - Lauren, Mark, Mason 

Homework Sheet May 11th to 14th

Grade 7 Homework Sheet

Monday, May 11^th to Thursday, May 14^th

Announcements:

Long Weekend This Week!  No School on Friday, May 15^th or Monday, May 18^th

 Our grade 7/8 Overnight Field Trip to Revelstoke is booked for Thursday, May 21^st to Friday, May 22^nd.  Mr. Kelly is still preparing an information sheet that should be coming home this week. 

 KCC Relate Youth –  Chili Supper at Robideaus.

 Weekly Challenge –  Suggestion from a student – The Challenge this week is to give at least one  compliment to someone each day.  (Since we just had Mother’s Day, it might be nice to choose her at least one of the days.  J)

Extra Math Help – From 3:00 to 4:00 every Wednesday in the Library or my classroom. 

Science Quiz – Matching Quiz on Geology Definitions from our notes on Thursday.  See the blog for the words that will be on the test. 

Science Project  – Students have begun a Geology Project by creating a Lapbook on any topic discussed in chapters 7,8 or 9 in the Science Probe Textbook.  For information on this, please check the blog.  (robideauclass.blogspot.ca) I would suggest you scroll through the last 3 posts to check up on what’s happening in class.  This is due on Tuesday, May 19th.  

Geology Lapbook Explanation

Creating a Lapbook for Grade 7 Science

Our final unit in grade 7 Science focuses on Geology which is the study of the earth.  We are going to read through the final section in our textbook and you will choose an aspect of this subject that is of particular interest to you.  Then, we are going to create a “lapbook” project based on that subject.  

What is a lapbook?  Well, I think actually Wikipedia says it best: “ A lap book, lapbook, layer book, flap book, or shutter book is a type of single-subject book created by a student, generally as a supplement to a curriculum.   A lap book generally consists of a paperboard folder such as a file folder with small pieces of folded paper glued inside. These folded papers may contain facts, diagrams, illustrations, etc. related to the subject. Lap books can be adapted for any subject and grade level. Teachers and parents who use lap books with students say that they enhance creativity and critical thinking while integrating subjects such as science, language, history, geography, and mathematics, depending on the subject o the lap book.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_book)

We will have class time to work on this, but you will need to spend some time on this at home as well.  You will need to be responsible to bring the proper materials back and forth.   You will need to have on hand the following items: 

·        Scissors

·        Gluestick

·        Markers or pencil crayons

·        Computer 

·        Construction Paper or colored paper for accents and borders

·        Any “extras” you want to add for appearance or creativity 

When at school, you will have access to the school printer, the art room and paper cutters. 

This project will be due on Tuesday, May 19^th   This is how it will be evaluated:

Content: Information is accurate and clearly displayed.  There is sufficient information to show evidence of learning. Sources are cited.	_____ 25
Appearance: Neat, colourful, creative No glaring spelling errors or mistakes or sloppiness	_____ 10
Effort:  Use of class time Evident effort spent on project outside of class time	_____ 10

Geology Definitions for Matching Quiz on Thursday

Geology Vocabulary

These are the words that you need to know for the Matching Quiz on Thursday, May 14^th .   You should have the definitions in your notes.  If you don’t, I would beg, borrow and plead with a friend to copy theirs if I were you.  Or, just redo them.  It is a good way to study any way.  

Minerals

Magma

Igneous

Sediment

Sedimentary rock

Metamorphic rock

Fossils

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Crust

Mantle

Outer Core

Inner Core

Pangae

Plate tectonics

Divergent boundary

Convergent boundary

Subduction zone

Plateaus

Transform fault boundaries

Earthquakes

Volcano

Geology

Happy Monday!!

Good morning people!  

It's a Monday!  Mondays can be tough.  It is especially difficult when you are inside when you want to be outside.  Maybe you had a busy weekend celebrating your mothers and you really just want to be in your beds catching a few extra zzzzz's .  Well too bad!  You are here and we are going to have a great day!  Let's work hard this morning and then enjoy some Flag Football and electives in the afternoon.  

So, I actually worked hard this weekend trying to get all caught up on grading your papers and getting marks into students achieve.  It would be a good idea to go and check students achieve to see if there is anything you are missing there.  Check on any low marks and ask to do retests on anything that seems to require it.  Remember, however, that I don't nag you about retests or missed work.  That's your responsibility.  It's all there to see on students achieve.  You just need to learn to use this tool.  This is the same tool that is used in Grade 8  through 12.  We are blessed to have it because it really is a fantastic communication device for marks.  

Here are some people who maybe need to go and double check on their IXL Integer marks because they appeared lower than I think you would like: 

Gr. 7 D. 1 - 6 
Brian 

Gr. 7 E. 1 and 3 
Anika, Christianna, Colton, Yasha, Zach, Mason, Lorien, Simon 

Vocabulary Tests #5
*** I took off a mark if you were making consistent punctuation and capitalization errors.  
If you are missing past Vocabulary Tests, I changed ABSENCES to NHI's (Mark!!) 

 Social Studies 
Writing on the Wall - Lauren, Mark, Mason 

I want to be able to do a writing conference with every one of you over your short story.  I just don't know of a better way to receive encouragement and counsel on writing than a personal conference with me.  So, this means that we will all need to work together on holding each other accountable to staying on task and keeping the noise level down so that we can have conferences at the orange table.  I will be starting a list of names on the white board, and you can add to it as you feel ready to come for a conference.  

Please do these 3 tasks and then you can go on to the Monday Morning Choices: 

* 10 minutes of typing
* 10 minutes of readtheory.org
* IXL.com - Gr. 3 E.2 - Multiplication Facts to 12 (Try and get a score under 2 minutes) 


Monday Morning Choices 

* work on your story
* more typingclub.com and typingtest.com 
* journal 
* get caught up on missing work or study/do retests
* free read or more readtheory.com
* work on your geology lapbook 
* study for the Geology Matching Quiz on Thursday (someone should make a Quizlet) 

 

Thursday, May 7th - Morning Agenda

Good morning! 

Things are going to run a little differently this morning.  The Drama Elective class is running chapel this morning and needs time to get it all set up. 

 Mr. Hayden and Mr. Dorie have kindly offered to sub in for me while myself and the students in Drama busily prepare. 

This is how the morning will run:

8:30 - 9:00 - Attendance, Announcements, Devotions 
Announcements:  Congratulations to YASHA who almost scored a goal in last night's soccer game.  She played awesome! Sadly, however, the season is over for the Senior Girls Soccer team.
 

9:00 - 9:20 - DPA with Mr. Hayden 

9:20 - 10:10 - Make sure you have finished the definition notes on Chapters 8 and 9.  Then copy and paste this into a document on google drive or the file server and work through this Science lesson:

Geology Notes from the Science Probe Textbook

1.  Read pages 178 – 183

What are the 8 properties that are used to classify minerals?

2.  Read 188 – 193

Fill in the following chart with the definition from the text or from the glossary at the end of the textbook. 

Magma
Igneous rock
Intrusive
Lava
Extrusive
Sediment
Sedimentary rock
Metamorphic rock

3. Read pages 210 and 211 on The Rock Cycle

Then go to this website and scroll over the parts and enjoy the animations:

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html

4. Before you go to the next section on fossils, please watch this creation research video on fossil dating.  http://www.cbn.com/tv/1420801889001

a) How does Mount St. Helens show radiometric dating to be false?

b) So, just based on this one example, do you think the earth is millions of year old?

Now, watch this video, http://www.cbn.com/tv/1422170242001

a) Why are people so upset by the book that shows how the Grand Canyon is not millions of years old? 

Now you have learned the truth – your textbook lies!  Everywhere you read “millions of years old”, you just need to remember that creation scientists have much more evidence than evolutionist scientists that the earth is only thousands, not millions of years old.  For example, the picture on page 195 says that the ammonite is 170 million years old.  That is not true.  

Now you can read pages 194 to 197 and be able to critically discern the errors in your textbook.  Let’s just define some of the key terms on these pages. 

Fossils
Fossil record
Geologic Time Scale

If you are still really interested in this whole subject of fossil dating, watch these videos: http://www.answersingenesis.org/media/video/ondemand/dating-fossils-and-rocks/dating-fossils-and-rocks

5. The next section is on Weathering.  Read pages 198 to 203. Define the following terms:

Weathering
Mechanical weathering
Ice wedging
Chemical weathering
Biological weathering

6. Read pages 204 to 207.  Define the following terms:

Erosion
Deposition
Valley
Plains
Delta
Fiords

Now, complete the following quiz and print out the results.  These will be recorded in students achieve. 

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/testskills.html

10:10 - 10:30 - Recess 

10:30 - 10:55 - Continue Science work.  If you are finished, then please free read.  

10:55- 12:00 - GREAT and WONDERFUL CHAPEL featuring the DRAMA CLASS! 

 Lunch Time