Science

     In science we are learning about thermometers. The most common liquid used in thermometers are mercury and alcohol. The most common used thermometers are; liquid-in-glass thermometers, gas thermometers and metal thermometers. The most common out of these three is the liquid-in-glass thermometer. There are four parts to the thermometer they are: the bulb which is the bottom of the thermometer, the stem which is the outer part of glass that is surrounding the bore and there is a scale which are the lines on the thermometer which tell you the temperature of the substance you want to know the temperature of. This has to do with expansion and contraction. 

 

When you are taking the temperature of  a substance if its temperature is high the particles in the liquid expand and they have no where to go, but up. This is how you figure out the substances temperature because the liquid will eventually stop moving and you will be able to see the temperature of the substance on the scale.  The same goes for when a substance is cool. The liquid contracts and goes down the thermometer instead of up.

By: Alycia

French

In French we are learning Christmas vocabulary. We're learning things like Santa Claus, candy cane, reindeer, stocking, presents, Christmas tree, bells, decorations, and many more words. We learned how to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Along with the Christmas vocabulary, we learned words such as above, underneath, in, in front of, behind, and beside so that we could describe where the objects were. We learned the name of the supper that is eaten after Midnight Mass around the time when people are waking up.



We had a test on the vocabulary on Friday. We had to match the pictues to the French word. There were also five sentances that were written in French that we were required to draw. The sentances contained the Christmas words as well as the words that describe where they are.

                                                            Social Studies

In Social Studies, we have learned about the industries. There are three main industries; they are called the primary industry, secondary industry, and tertiary industry.

Primary Industry: the primary industry is resource-based. Primary industry extracts natural resources from the environment and turns them into semi-finished products. Primary industry is the first step in making the goods we need and use. Some examples are fishing, mining, logging, and farming.

Secondary Industry: the secondary industry is manufacturing-based. Secondary industry takes semi-finished products from the primary industry and turns them into finished products. Some examples are furniture making, house construction, factories, etc.

Tertiary Industry: the tertiary industry is service-based. The tertiary industry does not produce goods. Tertiary industry provides personal and business service to consumers. Some examples are a cashier, clerk, waitress.   .

Blog Post

For my topic I chose Gym, in gym class we are doing low organized games.The first game we did was  Mission Impossible.The rules of the game are that you can't hit above the waist or head.The game is played with no teams,The game is everyone vs. everyone. Once you are hit you wait for the person that hit you to get out , then you can go back in, to win this game you have to be the last man standing.The second game we did was doctor dodge ball.The game is played with 2 teams (East and West)and two doctors on each team.You can protect the doctor but in any of the dodge ball games you are not allowed to block with a ball.If you hit the doctor,the doctor can play as a regular player.The doctors job is to save a player that has been hit. If the doctor is a regular player you can not be saved.The winning team is the team that has players left and the other team doesn't.

Another game we played was kings court and Yoshi's island.Yoshi's island is played with 2 teams and 2 mats. When someone on the other team is hit they go to your mat.Then the people on  that person's team will through a dodge ball so  that person can catch it and come back and play, the winning team is the team that has the other team on there mat.The next game is king's court, The game is played with 2 teams (east and west). When someone on the east team gets hit they go to the west side and try to hit a person on the west side to go back to the east side and play.But, you have to stay behind the double white lines and try to catch a ball. The winning team is the team that  has the other team on there mat.
 

Math~ Bisectors and Area

By: Hayley Lecuyer 7B

  In Math, we are learning about all different types bisectors and types of line segments.(Ex. perpendicular bisectors and parallel lines.) A perpendicular bisector is a line that intersects at a right angle.(90 degrees) Parallel lines are line segments in the same plane that never cross or intersect.



We are also learning about area. Area is base times height (Ex. area= bxh, area=9x7, area=63units squared.) We also learnt how to find the area of a triangle, the formula is base times height divided by 2. We have been doing lots of practice pages in our textbook to help us learn how to do area fluently.












  We are now finished with this unit, we had our test on January 7th, 2014. I'm looking forward to our next unit in math.

Thank you,

By: Anastasia.G

Absolute Location S.S

     In S.S we have learned about Absolute Location.

       Absolute Location is used to locate places precisely.  

 We need Absolute Location when natural resources are found, the Absolute Location must be determined.  The absolute location makes the resources the property of one country and not another.

               EX.  If oil is found along the border of two countries with a clearly defined boundary.  They must determine who the oil belongs too.

                  We have also learned about regions.  A region is any area with a set of defined characteristics.  Regions are everywhere, such as your bedroom, neighborhood,house,ect... 

Regions are used in the study geography. 

We organize the world into spaces and places called regions.

  

CRICKETTTTTT >:D

Good morning/afternoon everyone. Today I will be talking about gym. In gym we are learning about cricket, and instead of Mrs. Langstaff, we have Mr.----- for gym until the last class before Christmas break. In cricket, we learned that it isn't a rip off of baseball, because it has many different things. We learnt how do throw the ball with a straight elbow, and how to hold the bat. There are 4 different positions that we know.(probably all of them) There is the bowling, fielder, batter, and wicket keeper.The bowler is the person who throws the ball at the wicket. The fielder is the person who catches the ball to give to the wicket keeper. The wicket keeper is the person who stands behind the wicket, and has to touch the wicket with a ball to get the batter running out. And the batter is the person who hits the ball with the bat, and runs to next base if  they can. Thank you for listening(if you were) and have a great day.

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