On are first day back from March Break, the whole school went to Trillium Gymnastics. We all left the school at 12:15 in the afternoon. For the first hour Kindergartens to Grade Three went into the gym while from Grade 5 to Grade 8, worked on a math challenge practice sheet. After grades 5 to…
Author: Steven Spencer
Basketball, Birdhouses, and Pasta With a Purpose
This week was extremely eventful in the 7/8 classroom. On Monday a large group of senior students spent the day at REGI high-school, representing Lakeshore school in the ALCDSB basketball tournament. The students that stayed at school got a start on their history projects. This week a large amount of class time was dedicated the…
A Short Week
This week was very busy, the Grade 8’s had interviews for the Challenge Program at L.C.V.I. to see if they would be accepted into the program. The Ski Trip to Calabogie started on Wednesday February 14th, and ended Thursday, February 15th. If students were not participating in the Ski Trip, they participated in a Valentine’s…
Blades, Treats and Timber
The week from January 22nd to 26th 2018 began with a snow day, on which every Lakeshore student studied hard at home ;). Tuesday we started our project teaching different aspects of math to younger grades, and those of us involved in the play received our full scripts and started tackling memorization. Wednesday, the whole…
A Busy Beginning to February
This week in the Lakeshore 7/8 class, we visited Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys Catholic School for a presentation by KFL&A Public Health called Teens Trashing Tobacco. During this seminar we learned about four aspects, how addiction works and how it’s a vicious cycle that is very difficult to break away from, the cost of smoking, be…
7/8's Planning Lessons and Singing Zombie
The grade 7/8s had a pretty interesting week. Something exciting on Monday was Math class. During Math class, the grade seven and eights made a lesson plan that they will later teach younger students. After school, some students also decided to go to basketball practice to make the basketball team. On Tuesday during music class…
Frontenacs Fight Bullying, and The Nutcracker!
On November 29th, grades 3 to 8 went to a hockey game at the K-Rock Center. The game was played by the Kingston Frontenacs and the Ottawa 67’s and lasted from around 10:50 am to almost 1:00pm. The classes ate lunch at the arena, the options were hot dogs, pizza or a chicken wrap with a soft drink and chips. Kingston won 4-1. The game was held during the day as an anti-bullying event, many of the children and teachers who attended the game wore pink, the colour of anti-bullying. For one of my classmates, Raghad, who is a girl from the Middle East, it was the first live hockey game that she’d ever seen. The game was very loud and full of screeching children, including the person who was sitting beside me, Quintyn, instead of the usual choir of howling middle- aged men who should have something better to spend their time on. The video score board displayed tactics to help prevent bullying, how to deal with it and a “Scream Meter” to help motivate the viewers to make “some” noise. My ears were ringing after hearing all the screeching children. The game was an overwhelming win for Kingston and a very loud yet memorable experience.
On December 7th, seven of the students from the 7/8 class, Ms. Singh and the sister of one of the students saw the Russian State Ballet’s rendition of the Nutcracker at the Grand Theater. All the girls were outfitted in dresses, I looked like a middle-aged woman going to a funeral, and the guys wore decent shirts and khaki pants. The ballet started at 6:30pm and ended at 8:30pm. The overall quality of the performance was underwhelming as I’m pretty sure they brought their D team, not even their second best, there were some very obvious mistakes like sloppy positioning and the awkward pas de deux of the Nutcracker and the Sugar Plum Fairy. The quality of the ballet wasn’t up to my expectations but the story was still conveyed and I enjoyed seeing the tale that I loved in my childhood.
Volleyball and the Last Week of Fall
Although this blogger was out of commission for part of the week, here are some highlights:
On Monday, we were divided into two groups for our “Literature Circle” assignment for the novel Black Like Me. There were 5 roles: Literary Luminary; Researcher; Discussion Director; Connector; and Summarizer. We worked on these throughout the week and ended our project over two days by making presentations to our groups. Tuesday the class wrote a math quiz, and presumably had music… though this writer was sick in bed.
Thursday the grade 7/8 class participated in the senior volleyball tournament at Queens University. Our team played valiantly, but not long. Undoubtedly, we were handicapped by the fact that the gym where we usually practice was unavailable that week. The day after the tournament, we submitted our Personal Project Proposals, which included: why we chose our subjects, what form our project will take and our checkpoints to completion, among other categories.
In preparing for a spelling test on November 20th we employed our sagacity to study our laborious list of words. Some may find it grotesque but the English language is melodious. Some of the words on our test are: Sagacity, laborious, grotesque and melodious. To my knowledge, this was the week at lakeshore. As it turns out this was also the last week of fall!
By: Aaron Mason
Scavenger Hunts, Field Trips, and More
Our grade 7/8 class had another exciting week that included: formal debates, field trips, math scavenger hunts, grammar review and more! From THEIR to THERE and IT’s to ITS, students reviewed strategies to ensure they don’t mix up these commonly misused homonyms in their writing! In geography class, grade 8’s debated about factors that contribute…
Chalk Talk, Halloween, and PEA format
This week was a blast for the Grade 7/8 class! Beginning the week with a Geography “Chalk Talk” for the Grade 8’s, we wrote and drew our ideas, without talking, on a piece of paper in brainstorm format. That was a fun way to explore a concept in a different learning form! Tuesday was Halloween,…