News from Div 1...
On this page, you will find important dates, events, and what is being covered in the classroom. Directly below is an overview of what we're learning about this month as well as a calendar of events for the month.
April - This month we are working on...
Maintaining the classroom environment:
Special Grade 7 Projects, Trips, etc:
- Consistent reinforcement of routines, leadership, responsibility, & expectations
- Community engagement through social responsibility, building emotional intelligence, and peer support systems
- Student-driven governance: Systemic rules & regulations created through bi-weekly Class Meetings
Special Grade 7 Projects, Trips, etc:
- Grade 7 Camp field trip - April 11 (watch for forms coming home!)
- Continuation of the Develop the Future project (ADST + Careers); ideating, wireframing, coding principles
- House team - first team meeting and team naming (school-wide)
- Continued personalized small group instruction for spelling, vocabulary, and word work
- Reading goal #4 in progress
- Lit Circle final project focusing on character biographies
- Continued "grammar crime" focus
- Learning to give and receive feedback on written work
- Exploration of poetry: poetry types and reading/interpreting famous poems from each type
- Authoring poems each week in the style learned that day, to create a Spring Poetry Book
- Reinforcement of Guided Math stations and routines ("which one doesn't belong?" and "esti-mysteries")
- Concept Clips continue - making mathematical thinking visible
- Introduction to integers, comparing and ordering, and integer operations
- Order of operations with integers
- Circumference and area of circles
- Area and volume of 3D shapes such as prisms and cylinders
- Introduction to circle graphs and data
- Vocabulary associated with clothing and dressing for different seasons and activities
- Correct usage of verbs alongside description of articles of clothing on different people (porter, mettre, faire, and magasiner)
- App Dev and Swift Playgrounds continuation (for loops, conditions)
- Long range project management
School Calendar
Click on any event below to get more details.