Stepping Stones: An Inspiring Discussion with Women Leaders

An Inspiring Discussion with Women Leaders

Panel of Speakers: Jane Shin (MLA Burnaby-Lougheed), Joyce Murray (MP Vancouver Quadra), Zoe Royer (Councillor Port Moody)

Saturday, October 26th 2013 11am – 2pm

Room 2058, Henderson Place, 1163 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam (SUCCESS Office)

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10 Ghoulishly Great Gleanings

Today is Zombie Day.  The Spirit Squad organized a Zombie Walk for lunch time and the students came dressed and ready.

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1. Both grade 6/7 and 8’s have finished Eric Walter’s “Between Heaven and Earth.”  The grade 8’s analysed a quotation from the novel and reflected on its meaning and their connections to the quote.  The grade 6/7’s imagined themselves interviewers from a magazine and came up with some deep questions to ask the main characters.  They switched questions and wrote an interview as either Doris, Sarha, DJ, Elijah or the Finns.  We are very excited for Literacy Day coming up on October 29th – when Eric Walters will be at Hillcrest and we will be doing activities related to the story all day.

2. We are continuing with the Seven Series and are reading the other 6 books this month.  Everyone was assigned two written responses and one task to complete.  Due dates are different for grade 6/7’s and grade 8’s but everyone has the assignment sheet and it is posted on Edmodo.

3. Today everyone wrote the Caribou Contest.  The Caribou Contest is a math contest offered by Brock University.  It does not count for marks but do provide challenging math activities and puzzles that are fun (with a little competition).  Click here for more information about the contest.

4. Term #1 Science is wrapping up for grade 6/7’s with a study package and assessment this week.  We finished with two interactive lessons last week.  The first simulating a water molecule traveling through the water cycle and the second was simulating a deer population and exploring the carrying capacity.  We graphed the population for “10 years” and hypothesized about the limiting factors that affected our population.  Students will be bringing the science assessment and their notebooks home next week, please take a look and ask them to explain about what they have learned.

Science Collage 5. “What I have done in French so far… there is a student from Charles Best that comes every Thursday in block F for the kids that have had a French background. So there are 4 of us who, instead of doing curriculum French, do a more advanced French that is more tailored towards our ability. In the French 8 class we have been studying things like numbers up to 30 and basic verb conjugation/translation.” – Connor

6. Our class (Mr. Utting’s) took a field trip to SFU to learn about light and lasers. In the morning, we split up into our exploration groups, and roamed the campus and filled out a crossword/scavenger hunt with facts about the campus. We had to travel all over the campus looking at signs and asking staff to find out the answers to fill into the crossword. When it was time for lunch we all met up in a cafeteria with a Tim Horton’s where all of the groups collaborated for lunch. We then moved our way towards a lab where we participated in a lab about lasers. We learned how to separate the colours from white light and used diffracting goggles to find out which gas was in a pipe. – Liam

7. When our class got the Terry Fox donation forms, Mr.Utting promised us a pizza party if we reached 500$ in donations and with the help of a few students who took the extra effort and went door to door in their neighbourhood we managed to reach 500$ in a few days. Since we reached the goal of 500$ so quickly we proposed if we raised 1000$ in donations, our class could have a day off school to do whatever we wanted while still being on school grounds. We played capture the flag, played games and had time outside. – Liam

8. In Social Studies, our class (Mr. Utting’s) is in the progress of doing a timeline about the history of ancient Rome. Pictures to come in a future post.

9. Ms. Abbot has 4 students from Charles Best in class on Thursday afternoons.  They have been helping students organize binders, organize lockers, outline written responses and get started on writing tasks and peer editing.  “They help and they are funny.  They ask lots of questions of us.  They are interested.  And they do really help.” – 6/7 student

10. IEPs are starting to come home. The IEPs are educational plans the outline the types of differentiation that happens in the MACC classes.   If you have questions, please don’t hestitate to call us.