{"id":41,"date":"2019-10-06T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-10-22T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:01:03","slug":"september-30-october-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/2019\/10\/06\/september-30-october-4\/","title":{"rendered":"September 30 &#8211; October 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we began thinking about decision-making processes, leading into our study of political systems and the levels of Canadian government.\u00a0 Since we reached half-way to our class points goal, we practiced our democratic rights and held a vote for what we should do with them &#8211; it was a tight race, but students voted to get a betta fish as a class pet!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-42 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px; height: 150px; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; float: left; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/files\/2019\/10\/Input-Output-machine-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"224\" \/>We also practiced writing and applying expressions to patterns in math, using hand-made &#8220;Input-Output Machines&#8221; to assist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/files\/2019\/10\/Increasing-pattern-2-300x58.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We worked in groups to demonstrate prior knowledge of body systems, making life-sized posters of the human body.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-45 size-medium alignright\" style=\"color: #333333; float: right; font-family: &amp;quot; libre franklin&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em;\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/files\/2019\/10\/Portraits-1-e1570386392951-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Art, we practiced blind contour drawings of partners, before attempting Self Portraits Drawn With Eyes Closed, following the techniques of art therapist Zoe Bowman, https:\/\/www.artofselfcare.ca\/.\u00a0 This was a new challenge for many students, and I was impressed by how open they were to trying a tricky technique!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we began thinking about decision-making processes, leading into our study of political systems and the levels of Canadian government.\u00a0 Since we reached half-way to our class points goal, we practiced our democratic rights and held a vote for what we should do with them &#8211; it was a tight race, but students voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}