Grand Manan Community School

Ms. Norman's wiki link: http://msnormanwiki.wikispaces.com/

The grade 9 Mathematics curriculum offers students and parents the opportunity to access the textbook via the internet. The website is www.mathmakessense.ca . Student username is math9_student and password is student2010

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Scientific Notation

Watch this You Tube video titled  - it will help you understand Scientific Notation

http://www.youtube.com/user/MyWhyU?v=Hmw0wJVud0k&feature=pyv





Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Math 9 Week of November 28 to Dec 2

We are working on exponents and can not waste any time!  Exams are in January, following Christmas break.


November 22 - page 76 questions 4, 5, 8, 10
November 24 - Worksheet Exponents Order of Operations
November 28 - Worksheet 3 Integers
November 29 - page 84 questions 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14

Stay caught up! Come see me after school or to just to work in a quiet room.

Ms. Norman


Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pink Week - week of Nov 21 - 25

Pink Week 2011 Itinerary

We encourage the students and staff to wear pink throughout the week.
Middle and High School can earn Colour War points.

Monday
·        Hubba Bubba Day (all students and staff will receive a piece of pink bubble gum)
K-8 teachers will receive gum to give out at the end of the day.
·        Morning Video: How “Pink Week” started (school website)
·        Pink Lemonade on sale (Middle/High School)
Tuesday
·        Pink Pinkies (paint your pinkie pink – morning before Oh Canada)
·        Morning Video: Will I Am (You Tube link)
Wednesday
·        Pink Peppermint Day (all students and staff will receive a pink peppermint) K-8 teachers will receive peppermints to give out at the end of the day.
·        Pink Lemonade on sale (K-5/ WHES)
·        K-5 Pink Dance (K-2 6pm – 7pm, 3-5 7pm – 8pm)
Thursday
·        Positive Pink Post Its (pink Post It Note on everyone’s locker/hook with a positive message)
·        Morning Video: Don’t Laugh at Me (You Tube link)
Friday
·        Pink T-Shirt Day
·        Pink Lemonade on sale (Middle/High School)
·        Positive Pink Assembly (1:05 start to assemble in the gym)
·        Picture of students and staff (1:20pm)
·        Pink Dance grades 3-12 (2:00pm – 2:40pm)

Lemonade will be $0.50 a glass.  It will be on sale during the various noon hours.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Week of November 14 - 18

Math 9
We have started a new unit on exponents. Students have due on Tuesday (November 15th) Exponents Lesson 1.

Other new work is exponent rules, scientific notation and ten's exponent.
Work due on Monday, November 21st:

Page 56 of the text: 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21

Page 61 of the text: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Students have notes to refer to and there are lots of videos on you-tube that can show you if there is trouble and you are stuck.

I enjoyed first term very much!
Ms. Norman

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent Teacher Interviews

Thursday, November 17th from 6pm - 8pm
Friday, November 18th from 9am - 11am

I look forward to seeing you and my students together.

Ms. Norman

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Science 8 notebooks

Science 8
Due: November 10th, 2011
Dear student and parent/guardian;
For report cards, I will be collecting Science notebooks to mark. The following should be put in the note book and all project complete to receive full marks. Please use the following check-list to ensure you have completed all list. Place this list at the front of your 3-ring-binder once you have everything checked over. Also, everything may not be on this list – please leave your supplementary notes in your book. I have been telling this to students all term – so this news should not be new to them.
1. Title page for chapter one: Cells and Body Systems
2. Making Observations and Inferences BLM G-13
3. Characteristics of Living Things BLM 1-1
4. Is a candle alive? BLM 1-2
5. Early Microscopes BLM 1-3
6. Using a Microscope BLM G-2
7. Project on Living things (find a minimum of 15 living things, scientific name, place on cue card)
8. Bill Nye Cells questions and answers
9. Build and Plant Cell (see instructions and label)
10. The compound microscope BLM 1-5
11. October 3rd notes on Cells
12. October 5th notes on Cells
13. Celebrating Cellular Organelles BLM 1-19
14. The Parts of an Animal Cell BLM 1-16
15. The Parts of a Plant Cell BLM 1-15
16. Organelles and Their Functions BLM 1-17
17. LET IT ALL HANG OUT Animal Cell mobile (create a mobile of an animal cell and label)
18. TEST: The Organelles in Cells BLM 1-20
19. Test corrections
20. Project: Biology in the Human Body (each student has a body part)
21. Nov. 7th – notes on Diffusion and Osmosis
All information is on my homework blog.

Ms. Norman

Monday, November 7, 2011

Science 8 - key terms done for Wednesday, November 9th

Key Terms - Chapter 2

selectively permeable

permeable

impermeable

diffusion

osmosis

carrier proteins

active transport

cellular respiration

regeneration

chromosomes

mitosis

daughter cells specialized

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