Mr. Laucke’s Blog

Congratulations to all those who participated in the launch of Formal Thursdays – we definitely had the best dressed class in the school today.

Bowling tomorrow afternoon – chaperones still needed!

Ecosystems – Quiz Monday on all the new vocabulary

Pure Substances and Mixtures – Page 13 # 1 to 6 for tomorrow – except Mrs. McNaught’s class.

Diversity – Page 26 # 3, 5, and 6.

History – Loyalist History Cards – now late for 7M and 8L, due tomorrow for 8M and 7/8.

Heat Design Challenge Presentations are done!  Testing will be taking place after school.

All Space, Heat, and Ecosystems Unit Tests (all 4 parts) have been returned and have been sent home.

Bowling permission forms are now overdue and need to be in tomorrow so the groups and shoe sizes can be sent in to the alley.  We can still use some parent chaperones for my class (bowling optional).

New Units:

Ecosystems: (8L and 8M) – The unit has started and homework will be coming soon…

Pure Substances: (7M, 7/8, and 6/7) – Mr. Ritchie’s and Mrs. McNaught’s class have page 13 # 1 to 6 for homework.  Miss MacKenzie’s class needs to memorize the three statements of the Particle Theory of Matter.  Candy Bar classification assignment is due first class next week.

Diversity: (Miss MacKenzie’s grade 6’s) – Make sure all the headings and details are filled out on the handout of the five kingdoms and the animal kingdom subgroups

History: Loyalist History Cards are due – today for 8L, tomorrow for 8M, and Friday for 7M and 7/8.

Heat – Design Challenge Presentations are ongoing – be ready – you may be next (random draw).

Pure Substances and Mixtures Unit has now begun for Mr. Ritchie’s and Mrs. McNaught’s classes – candy classification assignment due next Monday, February 9th.  Miss MacKenzie’s grade 7’s start the unit tomorrow.

Diversity (Miss MacKenzie’s 6’s) – back to this unit tomorrow.

History – The jigsaw on Simcoe’s Policies is being completed in class – make sure you have all the notes from the chart papers posted on the chalkboard as the six sections are being taken up.

Art – 7M’s – A double period on Thursday for the lighthouse project.

Art – 8L’s – Work continues on your final project – remember to use all of the different aspects that have been done this year – perspective, shading, colour, depth, inking.

Upcoming Events:

GRAD PHOTOS TOMORROW!!! White shirts with colours and dark ties for the boys, white blouses for the girls.  Composite orders are also due ($25).

The Second Annual Winter Blues Buster Bowling Trip is Friday, Feb. 6 – $10 for transportation, 2 games, shoes and a KAPOW! pop – who could ask for a better way to shake off the winter blues.  Chaperones needed – $5 if they want to bowl.  Permission forms are due by next Tuesday please.

Heat Design Challenge is due Monday.

Unit tests are nearing completion – new units coming soon!

History – Loyalist History Cards (think of it like an educational hockey card) are due next week: Wednesday for 8L, Thursday for 7M and 8M, and Friday for 7/8’s.

Art – Watercolurs are continuing with 7M, final perspective pieces for 8L have been started and are beginning to look very good.

Special School Bonus: For all their hard work on the science test, all students do not have to come to school this Friday.

No trivia this week as you should be studying.

All classes are having tests this week – Heat, Ecosystems, and Space.\

Heat Design Challenge Projects are due next Monday.

History – Loyalist History Card Assignment is due next Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday depending on which class you are in.

Study hard, study often.

Heat: Unit Review Take-Up continues from question 26…  Design Challenge due February 2nd

Ecosystems: Everyone now has the list of all the questions # 1 to 19 (1 to 12 already taken up), 26, 27, 31 to 35

Diversity: Johnson Family Tree Classification (Square and Circle Faces) is homework if not finished in class, Transportation classification does not have to be finished for tomorrow – more time will be given once we take up the first handout – Design Challenge for Space Unit due this Friday.

History: Fill In The Blanks Assignment for 8L due Wednesday, 8M due Thursday, 7M due Thursday, and 7/8 due Friday

Trivia from January 19 still unanswered.

Heat: We are taking up the unit review this week.  Up to # 25 has been done.  Still to come # 26, 27, 28ab, 29, 32 to 43, and 47.  Make sure they are done – complete sentences with reasoning – it makes it a lot easier to add when something is already on the page.  Design Challenge Projects due two weeks from today (Feb. 2).

Ecosystems: For 7M amd 7/8’s: Unit Review up to #12 has been taken up.  Questions up to #19 have been assigned.  The final set of questions are coming tomorrow.

Ecosystems: For 6/7: We will be taking up #1 to 12 tomorrow and the final set of questions will be assigned in class on Wednesday.

Space: Design Challenge Projects due on Friday.  We will be starting the Diversity of Living Things unit tomorrow.

History: 8L and 7M: Fill in the Blank handout on pages 143 to 153 is due next History Class

Art: 8L: Final project is being announced next Monday.  7M: We will be finishing our boat paintings on Wednesday and starting the always interesting colour washes on Thursday.

Trivia: Find the word from Group B that belongs to Group A (as always with the correct reason):

Group A: front, ski, melon, fall

Group B: road, tire, tower, cliff

This is being done remotely as the floors are being waxed so not many specific details.

Heat: Unit Review continues… 

Ecosystems: Unit Review begins for Mr. Ritchie’s class, tomorrow for everyone else

Space: Unit Review should be finished for tomorrow so we can begin taking it up

My homeroom class: If you have any old tennis balls to donate, they can be put on desk and chair legs so the floor can remain clean and shiny.

Congratulations to Julie for solving last week’s trivia – new question coming soon.

Kapow Pops (fundraiser) are now on sale after school in room 18 for $1 each – 12 flavours – a reminder they are not to be eaten during class time or on the yard and wrappers go in garbage cans (the ground is not a giant garbage can).

A reminder to all those who are not in school today: After you are done shovelling the driveway, schoolwork still needs to be done.

Parents’ night tonight at SCITS and Alexander MacKenzie has been postponed.  The St. Christopher’s parent night is still on.

Heat: 8L: Unit Review # 28ab, 29, 32 to 36

Heat: 8M: Unit Review # 20 to 23, 25 to 27

Ecosystems: 7M, 7/8: Section 5.21: Logging Old Forest Growth # 1 to 6

Ecosystems: 6/7: Start reviewing for the unit test

Space: Unit Review # 1 to 13 for Thursday, Robot Explorer Design Challenge due Friday,  January 23rd.

Remember to stretch after shovelling to avoid sore muscles and injury.

Unit Test Reminder – Monday, January 26th

Heat – 8L Review Questions # 20 to 23, 25 to 27, Case Study 2.21 is now late

8M Review Questions 12 to 14, 16 to 19, Case Study 2.21 is now late

Pop Can/Pool Design Challenge due February 2nd

Ecosystems – Case Study 5.19 due Tomorrow

Space – Unit Review begins tomorrow

Robot Planet Exploration Design Challenge due January 23rd

History and Art – don’t worry there will be something soon

Hockey Scores from Saturday: Canadiens 5, Capitals 4; Flyers 4, Leafs 1 (the best of both worlds)

Still waiting on a trivia answer from last week…