Debate, Ottawa, projects and more! This week, the grade 7/8 class had a wonderful time holding a debate and visiting the Ottawa war museum! On Monday, the grade 8s started their new unit in science on microscopes and biology. We studied the anatomy of a microscope and how to properly use one. On Wednesday, the…
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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,…
In the Days Before Halloween...
This week in Lakeshore the grade 7/8 class had 5 days of anticipation for Halloween, an event scheduled for next week on Tuesday. In other news instead of having a spelling test, we wrote horror stories to share with the class on the following Monday and Tuesday to get in a thematically appropriate mood for…
Novel Study and Clubs
This week we did a lot of work on our novel study, Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. On Monday we were given our books and our reader response journals. We read the Prologue and answered questions about the stanza from Langston Hughes’s poem that J.H.G included in the start of his book.…
Hiking and the Corn Maze
In this class blog I’m going to tell you about the trip to Frontenac Park that the 7/8 class went on last week and the corn maze trip that the whole school went on. The hike in to Campsite 8 where we where staying was usually 2 Km, but we took the 12 Km route instead. We stopped multiple times for water breaks. When we stopped at campsite 12, we did some water color painting and filtered more water for the hike ahead. We took our time hiking in and got to camp site 8 at around 2 pm. When we got to camp, we put our packs, which had all of our gear, in the tents. Then we just hung out around the campground until it was dinner time. Dinner was fajitas. Once we had all had dinner, we filled our water bottles up and had smores around the fire until it was time to go to bed. In the morning the forecast was for rain at lunchtime, so we left camp at about 10 O’clock in the morning. Since we didn’t know what the weather was going to be like, we took the 2 Km hike out and did more watercolor painting at campsite 11. After campsite 11 it was about a 30-minute hike out. Once we had hiked out, we got in the trucks, got ice cream, and went back to the school.
The next week we went to the corn maze on Wolfe Island. We left school at around 8:45 and got to the corn maze at about snack time. After we had a snack, the owner of the corn maze told us the rules and gave us walkie-talkies so we could communicate when we were in the maze. We split into different groups. The primary classes split into groups with teachers and so did the 5 /6 class. The 7/8 class split up into two groups. We got walkie talkies and went into a different maze that had 26 wrong ways rather than 12 wrong ways which is where the primary classes went. It took the 7/8 class about 30 minutes to complete the whole maze. The primary class took a bit longer. When we all finished the maze, we all had lunch and then got to see the two goats and rabbits that were at the farm. Once we’d seen the animals, we found out that the ferry had been backed up by an ambulance call. So, we had to leave right away, and we barely caught the ferry. When we were on the ferry, we got to go up to the top section of the boat and see the view. We also got splashed by the waves on the boat.
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Writers' Fest and What's Good!
September 28th 2017 the grade 7/8 class went downtown to the Kingston Writer’s Festival to hear Craig Davidson speak about his memoir, Precious Cargo, and what you need to make a memoir. The seminar took place at the Holiday Inn, downtown from 11-12. Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Singh each drove a van full of students…
An Awesome Second Week
This week at Lakeshore, the grade 7/8’s had their first music session. We had music on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday during music, the grade 7/8’s decided on what instruments they would play. They also decided on what song they would play for the CBC Music Festival. They agreed on Island in the Sun by…
First Week in Grade 7/8
Lakeshore School’s Grade 7/8 class came back into the swing of the school year with a bang! Students woke up after an enjoyable summer vacation and happily arrived at Lakeshore in anticipation of a great year. Our new homeroom teacher, Ms. Singh, introduced how language was going to work this year and the Grade 7/8 class did video diaries to communicate our feelings and goals for the course. After catching up with our friends after a great summer holiday, the school was debriefed and enjoyed a back to school fun day! Every student became a member of a special team that would work together to earn points for themselves. After the excitement of the first day of school, the Grade 7/8 class got back into a regular routine. Students enjoyed learning about memoirs and had fun writing their own six-word memoirs that summed up their life. Also, students enjoyed a semi immersion French class where conversational skills were worked on, and vocabulary developed through French worksheets. In Math class, the 7/8’s inquired about the math behind a hurricane. Students did a loosely structured project to figure out what they found the most interesting factor of a hurricane and studied that particular factor. The Grade 7/8’s did Science and Geography separately and with great interest. The introduction to these subjects laid the base of what students would be studying throughout the school year. On Friday, the school took a field trip to Kendrick’s Beach. Teams participated in challenges to earn them points, and the brave people who decided to swim in the frigid lake enjoyed their fluffy towels afterwards. Overall, the first week of the school year was a great success!
Welcome to Grade 7/8 Language Arts and History/Geography with Ms. Singh!
Dear Lakeshore Parents and Students: Welcome to a new school year! My name is Ms. Ekta Singh, and I am very excited to be teaching your child this year. I have been teaching High School and Middle School English and Social Sciences for 12 years and most recently was working at an International Baccalaureate (IB)…