Category: 7/8 Blog

Concerts, Movies and the Joy of Long Distance Running

Concerts, Movies and the Joy of Long Distance Running

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The week began on Sunday with one of our very own students, Shaun Malik who organized a wonderful recital to raise funds for the Joe M.I.L.L. which is a musical lending library as a part of his personal project. He spent the last 5 months investigating how music can help people feel better and more emotionally positive. This event took please at the Waterford Kingston Retirement Residence. Shaun chose this venue in the month of December and found someone named Mari who helped him organize the event. Shaun also organized a bake sale which was right after the recital. He raised $534.10 and donate all the money to the Joe M.I.L.L Fund! Great work Shaun, we are proud of you!

 

In math this week the grade 7/8 class had their math presentations about financial planning. They have been working on them for a couple of months and they are now finally finished them with an excellent understanding of the financial world and how to save money for our future.

 

In Language arts this week, the grade 7/8 class had their symbolism presentations. Over the last couple of weeks, they have had to create a poster with 3 symbols that they think have a powerful meaning over Romeo and Juliet. One of the symbols had to be a character from the book and the rest of them had to be actual symbols from the book. There were 5 groups and they all presented on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they were all creative and the drawings were very unique

 

In History this week the grade 7/8 class went to the Indian Horse movie which was at the Screening room. This movie was very powerful and made everyone think about the effects of Residential Schools on First Nations people. We also got to enjoy popcorn and candy, a special treat!

 

In Science this week everyone in the grade 7/8 class was preparing for the All Science Challenge, we prepared for this event by quizzing each other and completing worksheets. The one week countdown is on until this big event!

 

 

Also this week there was the Bayridge Road Race. The grade 7/8 ran to run 2.9 km and all the boys and girls completed the race and did very well! Raghad ran this time for the first time ever, and Shaun finished in 36 place and Kevin in 65th place! We were all exhausted but not too exhausted to enjoy ice cream sandwiches at the end of the race! 

By Shaun Malik

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Pasta for A Purpose- Came to Fruition!

Pasta for A Purpose- Came to Fruition!

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After two months of planning, organizing and food prepping, the Grade 7/8 “Fundraising Four Course Dinner” came together as a beautiful evening on April 5th, 2018. The event was hosted at the Kingston Gospel Temple at the Fireside Room and all meal preparation took place in the kitchen on site.

All eleven students in class shared various roles in hosting, waiting on, cooking, clean up, performance, and public speaking at the event. We were grateful to have the help and support of Richard Louie (Parent at the school) who helped with the meal preparation and organization in the kitchen.

The students raised over $1100 and over 54 tickets were sold for the event! In light of hosting a challenging event, the students worked seamlessly together and supported each other in ensuring all our guests received the “five star treatment!” Guests commented on how professional the students appeared in their various roles and enjoyed seeing students step out of their comfort zone. Not only did our class enjoy cooking and baking, students were also meaningfully engaged in the event planning process and learned valuable skills such as: group decision making, creation of advertising and communication tools, presentation skills, collaboration, conflict resolution, and budget analysis!

The morning after the event, we reflected on the successes and challenges of putting together such an event and made a list of recommendations we would incorporate in the future. Perhaps, the largest marker of success, was that our very own Aaron Mason went home on the weekend and replicated the Chocolate Mousse dessert for his family!

This example of student-led event organizing provided our class with an opportunity and event we will soon not forget!

Ms. Singh

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Frontenacs Fight Bullying, and The Nutcracker!

Frontenacs Fight Bullying, and The Nutcracker!

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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.

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Volleyball and the Last Week of Fall

Volleyball and the Last Week of Fall

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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.

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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