Grade 8 Math - Nov. 22nd - Dec. 10th

If you are done the HW assignment PAGES 132-133 # 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, you will be going to the computer lab on Monday afternoon  to work on THE LEARNING EQUATION 8.  Once you are logged in, click on the NUMBER OPERATIONS menu, then select DIVIDING FRACTIONS.  You only have to complete the EXAMPLES tab, the PRACTICE AND PROBLEMS tab and the EXTRA PRACTICE tab.  (See below for a HOW TO.....)  :-)

We have been working on multiplying and dividing fractions (Chapter 3 in the textbook).  We will also do order of operations with fractions as well.  Here is an AT HOME PRACTICE version of some questions students can complete under parental supervision!

Students have been working on a variety of tasks and problem solving in class.  One of them was creating a race course using their previous knowledge of fractions.

The textbook assignment for dividing was given out on Thursday, December 3rd.
         So far, we have been assigned....
PAGES 132-133 # 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13

Friday, Dec. 3rd, students will work on STRINGS OF DIVIDING FRACTIONS on a worksheet and start working on a text assignment, Monday, Dec. 6th of:
pages 139-140 #4,5,6,7,8,10, 12, 19
pages 145 # 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13

Students will be assigned problem solving questions with fractions from pages 151-152 in groups of 2 and create a visual solution to share with the class.

Students will practice order of operations (BEDMAS) with fractions and
do questions on page 155 #4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11

The textbook assignment for multiplying should be completed!  It was....
Math textbook assignment..given Thursday, Nov. 25th......

Pg. 109 #16, 18, 22


Pg. 114-115 # 13 - 17


Pg.119 # 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19

Unit Test on Multiplying, Dividing FRACTIONS will be the week of Dec. 13 to 17th.

*Check page 158 in the text for the test outline.

*Try review questions on pages 159-161 #1-30 as needed asking for help from family, friends or teachers as needed!

*Do the Practice Test on the text page 162 #1-11 and feel good that you are as prepared as you can be.

9-1 Math Nov. 22 - Dec. 3rd

*We are working on outcome B-3  Students will be able to use order of operations and BEDMAS.

Text 2.3 assignment of pages 66 - 68 #5, 8, 10, 16

Text 3.6 assignment of pages 140 - 142 # 5, 8, 12,13, 17, 21

*We are currently working with concepts with EXPONENTS.

The Unit Test will be FRIDAY, NOV. 26th. It will cover outcomes B-1, B-2 (with some review of A-1 & A-2). B-1 & B-2 are chapters 2.1, 2.2, 2.4 & 2.5 in your textbook.

* Assigned so far are

Text 2.1 Read pages 52 - 55, review your in-class 2.1 notes from Nov. 8th, assignment of pages 55-57 #2, 4-14, 17

Text 2.2 Pgs. 61-62 #1-11 (all inbetween), 13, 14

Text 2.4 Pgs. 76-78 #1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 20

Text 2.5 Pgs. 83-85 # 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,14,15,16,20,21

All assingments are due Tuesday, Nov. 23rd to go over in class.

8-4 & 8-7 Science Nov. 1 to Dec. 10th

We are currently studying the parts of a cell.  We started on Thursday and continued on Friday, Dec. 3rd, drawing out plant and animal cells from our textbook pages 28 and 29.  These should be labelled and placed in a protective sheet in students' binders for later reference.  Tuesday, December 7th, students will be learning the functions of the cell organelles within the cell and making analogies for them.

Below is a basic diagram of a plant cell:

 Below is a diagram of a basic animal cell.

On Dec. 2nd, Thursday, we will have a 1 page circulatory review quiz to summarize the important outcomes in the curriculum with respect to the topics outlined in the picture below.  This was the review summary given to the students on Tuesday, Nov. 30th in class.  If you have been in class and asking questions and watching videos, using the textbook and participating in the activities in class, this "quiz" assessment is just that, a 1-page review of what we have done.

Students had a microscope discovery class, in which they found the lenses of the microscope invert the image and magnify it up to 1000 times on our compound light microscopes at Acadia. 

The student lab handouts are available here. 

Students learned the use and care of a microscope. 

Students caculated magnification  and

made scientific drawings of various plant and animal cells.

On Wednesday, Nov. 3rd, a special unit test and exam review sheet was handed out and gone over with the class.  We talked about the respiratory system and the circulatory system meeting at the alveoli and the capillaries for GAS EXCHANGE to occur.  Please download the sheet here, and get the notes off a classmate and keep in your binder for later reference!

ASSINGMENT due Monday, Nov. 8th - DESCRIBE how gas exchange happens in the body

Option A:  you can write two paragraphs, one about oxygen going in and one about carbon dioxide coming out
Option B: you can click here to download a word cycle if you are making a word cycle with your vocabulary!  http://www.box.net/shared/fs4bam0fk3
Option C:  you can draw a picture and describe in point form the travels of oxygen and carbon dioxide into the blood and out of the body

Option D: you can sign up for VoiceThreads (using your pembinatrails email please and record and share your presentation with me ssnyder@pembinatrails.ca) and copy and download the picture provided above to show how gas is exchanged in the body.   Here is my VOICETHREAD that I made after school on Wednesday!



Here is your webquest for the HEART and CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.

Download it, click OPEN and save it to your MY DOCUMENTS, SCIENCE FOLDER.

Follow the directions, go to the websites and fill in your sheet on the computer and email it to me when you are done!  You may print a copy for your binder (shrink the text to less than 2 pages if you can).

If one of the websites doesn't work or you finish, check out DISCOVERY EDUCATION CIRCULATORY VIDEOS that I selected just for you!

http://www.box.net/shared/bypm8udj8t

Mrs. Gray will be helping us learn some reading strategies when we read science texts so we can look for important information! We will learn about the components of blood.


We will be working with the textbook and learning about TISSUES of the body.

9-1 Math Nov.1st to Nov. 18th

We have finished our Chapter 3 text studies on Rational numbers. 

Students got back their A-1 outcomes test ( /25 marks) and entered them on their tracking sheets.

Our A-1 and A-2 outcomes test is Tuesday and Thursday, Nov. 2nd and 4th (Take your Kid to Work day is on Wednesday, Nov. 3rd so that comes in between!

A-2 outcomes are adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions, decimals and integers.

Students have had many practice sessions and review opportunities (see the last 9-1 blog for all the text review suggestions).  Answer keys for in class handouts are available here (link to come later).


On Thursday, Nov. 4th, most students will finish off their A-1 & A-2 Unit test on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing rational numbers (decimals, fractions and integers).  When you are done, you will complete an exponent intro sheet for me to see where you are at with exponent understanding and then watch some videos about exponents on Discovery Education (click under my assigned material in the STUDENT CENTRE!).  You will need headphones!
We will be moving onto our EXPONENTS unit starting Friday, November 8th.

Text assignments for this chapter will be assigned in the order of:

Text 2.1  Read pages 52 - 55,  review your in-class 2.1 notes, assignment of pages 55-57 #2, 4-14, 17

Text 2.2  Read pages 58 - 60,   review your in-class 2.2 notes,
assignment of pages 61-62 #1-11, 13, 14

Text 2.3  Read pages 63 - 65, review your in-class 2.3 notes,
assignment of pages 66 - 68 #5, 8, 10, 16

Mid Unit Review on page 69 Try all Questions followed by a quiz of 2.1 , 2.2 and 2.3 topics on exponents!

Text 2.4  Read pages 73 - 76, review your in-class 2.4 notes,
assignment of pages 76 - 78 #1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 20

Text 2.5  Read pages 79 - 83, review your in-class 2.5 notes,
assignment of pages 83-85 # 1,2, 4 to 8 inclusive, 10, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21

Text Unit Review pages 87, 88 and 89 try all questions
Do the Practice Test on page 90 try all questions

Ask any questions you have to me, then you're ready for the unit test on Exponents!

8-4 & 8-7 Math Nov. 1 - Nov. 18th

Unit Test on Multiplying, Dividing & Order of Operations with Integers Monday, Nov. 15th AND Tuesday, Nov. 16th!!

Assigned Friday, Nov. 12th as review for the Unit test:
*Read & go overPage 96 has the Unit outline for the three main concepts being tested, Multiplying Integers, Dividing Integers and Order of Operations

**Complete as many questions on pages 97-98 between #1-24 as you need to to study for the test, check your answers on pages 502-503
***Complete all questions on page 99 the PRACTICE TEST and check your answers in the back on page 503


Please come and visit me with your parent(s)/guardian(s!)
Parent-Student-Teacher conferences are on:
Thursday, Nov. 18th from 7 to 9 pm

Grade 8 students are onto studying our next concept of INTEGERS, positive and negative whole numbers (including 0 as our numberline friend!).

We are working in CHAPTER 2 of the textbook, sign in to work using the online textbook here.  Your password and username should be written in your agenda or on a card in your math binder.  Email me if you forget the username and password.  We can't post it here.

Due on Wednesday, Nov. 3 are:
Multiplying assignment  Pages 73-75 # 3, 5, 8, 11, 12(a, b only) and 17
Dividing assignment is Pages 80-81 #3,4,5,9,10, 11, 12, 13, and 14

Show your thinking using numberlines, chip diagrams or explain in words what you are doing when asked WHY? :-)

Assignments for Nov. 4th are:
Dividing Integers Page 87 - 88 # 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 23

Complete the mid-unit reviewpage 83 # 1 to 13 before our 1 page quiz on multiplying and dividing integers  on Tuesday, Day 3, Nov. 9! Go over your assignments on text pages 73-75 and 80-81.

Starting Monday Nov. 8th, we will start practicing Order of Operations, or the "grammar of mathematics".  How many different ways can you evaluate the following expression?

3 squared x 6 + 36/4 - 1

To ensure everyone gets the same meaning from this expression (the same value), we use order of operations. 

Check out these websites on BEDMAS or PEDMAS (parenthesis instead of brackets).

The assignment on Monday, Nov. 8th in class will be:

Pages 92-93 # 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17

We will also have some activity handouts in class using order of operations to solve puzzles.  You can download them here  and   here.

9-1 Math Oct. 12 - 29th

We finished up adding and subtracting rationals last week and had an in class 5 question assessment.
Check that over with Mrs. S, Mrs. B or Mr. B in class this week please!  Oct. 18- Oct. 21.


3.4 - talks about MULTIPLYING rational numbers
Study your notes from MULTIPLYING RATIONALS

We talked about decimals on Oct. 18th in the morning and fractions in the afternoon.  It was a multiplication PARTY/shindig/hoedown/gathering.  Yeah-yea!  Try your hand at the PARTY of MULTIPLICATION worksheet that we did in class (it was a real hoe-down, a shindig if you will).

Monday, Oct. 18th......Assignment Pages 127-129 #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 *work on it in class on Tues, Oct. 19th



3.5 - talks about DIVIDING rational numbers
Study your notes from DIVIDING RATIONALS

Here is the handout from class about the introduction to dividing decimals

Assignment Pages 134-136 #3 to 13 inclusive, 17, 18, 21




I reccommend doing the mid-unit review questions on page 121 #1-10 all (Answers on page 483) when you are done everything as review before a quiz or test.

Before the unit test, it would be good to do the review on pages 144-145 #all (but do every 2nd letter in each question starting with a) then c) then e), etc. so you don't overdo your practice!) The answers are on page485/486.

There is also a PRACTICE TEST on page 146 #1-7, with the answer key on page 486, that would be a good review when you are done 3.1 to 3.6 in your text before the Unit Test!

Expect the unit test on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd and Thursday, Nov. 4th!  Take your Kid to Work Day is Wednesday, Nov. 3rd....enjoy your day at a workplace!

8-5 & 8-7 Math October 12 - 21

OUR SQUARE ROOTS, TRIANGLES and PYTHAGORAS' THEOREM unit test is on

 October 19(Day 6) and  20th (Day 1).

See below for assignments and how to study!

Assigned on Tuesday, October 12th*****Textbook pages 48,49,50,and 51 try #2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13 and 14
Assigned Thursday, Oct. 14/Friday, Oct. 15*****Textbook page 55, 56 # 4,5,9,10,11, 12, 13, 18
Check your answers in the back of the book and ask any questions you have in class!

Here is the pythagorean theorem hand-in assignment you got back in class on Monday, Oct. 18th.
Here is the answer key for that assignment if you didn't get to check it over in class.

Before our unit test on Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem, please check over page 54 the UNIT REVIEW and look at the 3 main concepts from the unit. These are the three key ideas you  need to know.  Link to the sign in for our online textbook here.

Also, try pages 55, 56, 57 # 1 - 27, as you need to practice your skills before the unit test (the answers are on page 499 in the back).

Finally, try the PRACTICE TEST on pages 58-59 #1-10 (answers on page 499) ANY night you don't have homework already. Come see me when you have any questions about what is going on in math! :-)