Hello Div, 1! Nora from SFU has kindly invited us to be a part of their research for a paper. In the study, Div 1 and 2 will be playing WarioWare for 9 weeks to record how we act and think while playing it. This study will be only for educational purposes and not for entertainment. All student information will be disclosed to the public other than our grade, and what game we are playing.  

Why are we doing this study? 

This study seeks to better understand how collaborative digital game play can help students develop their language and communication skills. 

Here is what our class thinks of study: 

18 out of 22 people are excited about the study. 

At the end of this study, our class will be rewarded with a pizza party and one of the switches we hope!

-News Crew 

Hi Everyone,

Here is a tutorial for how to put your agamographs together just in case you need it

See you all tomorrow!

Hello Div. 1!

We were sculpting our skulls around four weeks ago and we were glazing them before last Thursday. We made the skulls because Div.1 and 2 are studying early humans and thought it would be a fun and effective way to learn about the different features of hominin skulls by sculpting them. 

Mylittlepony and Vans interviewed some students about how they feel and what they thought about the activity.  This is what they said: 

Applecidervinegarshampooandconditioner: “It was such an exciting hands-on activity!” 

Grape Juice: “I had so much fun with sculpting the skull!” 

Princess purpleness: “A fun learning experience.” 

Ms. Ramen: “I thought it was fun, but challenging, as there wasn’t enough time.” 

Other students said: 

“It was a very interesting experience because I never did pottery before.” 

“It was very hard to make it look like a skull.” 

“It was hard because you can’t replicate perfect skulls.”  

“I felt like it took way too long to paint the skulls, but I feel the finished result will be good.”  

“It was good because it was fun.” 

Everyone cannot wait to see the finished product! We will receive our finished products tomorrow!

-The News Crew 

Div 1 has recently come up with a News Crew that will update the blog and create newsletters! We will update the blog every other week.  

Now we will introduce our group, we cannot say our names, but our code names are Applecidervinegarshampooandconditioner, Grape Juice, Princess Purpleness, Mylittlepony, Dezdimona, Nutty, Vans, and Vanilla. 

If you have any ideas to add to the blog you can let Ms. Ramen know !

We hope you enjoy our effort! 

– The News Crew

Our class has been working on using self-editing strategies in order to make our writing more powerful, formal, and clear! Ms. Ward and Ms. Lee helped us learn about the difference between formal and informal writing. We might use formal writing when submitting an essay, sending an e-mail to an employer, or writing a letter to a government official. Informal writing is what we use when we text a friend, when we write in a journal, or if we are writing a quick write.

Based on these conversations, we created a checklist that will help us with our editing! Find our checklist below:

Self-Editing Checklist: 

Using the checklist below, read through your paper fully. You can make any corrections using a pen. Check off the list as you go. 

Formatting: 

•  Is there a title? Is it bolded? Centered?
• Is your name underneath (By: Your Name)?
• Is your paragraph indented using the TAB?
• Is the font easy to read (ex: Arial, Times New Roman)?
• Did you use size 12-14 font?
• Is your work double-spaced?

Content:

•  Did you use a catchy or interesting opening sentence?
• Did you clearly introduce your topic/thesis?
• Did you use at least 3 reasons or pieces of evidence?
• Did you use a conclusion sentence and have a strong ending?
• Were you persuasive?

Grammar and Formality:

•  Is the beginning of each sentence capitalized?
• Are names of people and places capitalized (ex: Wirt, Pottsfield)?
• Is there a period, question mark, or exclamation mark at the end of each sentence?
• Did you check for slang (ex: cool, yeah) and remove it?
• Did you remove contractions (ex: don’t, won’t)?
• Did you remove short forms (ex, ur, irl)?
• Did you rephrase your sentences to remove “I” and “we”?

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to update you all and let you know that Ms. Pontalti will most likely be away tomorrow. However, it is good practice to bring your instrument just in case there is a TOC who is able to teach band.

See you all bright and early!

<3 Ms. Ramen

Today, we continued our discussion on evolution by learning about Darwin’s finches. Please view the video below and try your best to answer questions 5 and 8 on your handout. We will continue our conversation about this on Thursday.

Hi Families of Division 1!

Our class has decided to get this blog up and running again! The purpose of this is for our class to have a digital platform where everyone can learn about important things happening in our classroom, school, as well as around the world.

We have a dedicated News Crew who are hard at work creating some new posts for us to learn from. These will be posted shortly.

While we are waiting for their updates, please familiarize yourselves with the important links located on the right hand side of this website:). Here are a few links that you should be focusing on . . .

1. All The Right Type
2. Math Prodigy

See you all tomorrow!

<3 Ms. Ramen

Dear Families of Div.1,

I hope you are all enjoying the first few days of Spring Break! You have all worked tremendously hard and I am looking forward to seeing what we create and learn together in Term 3! With that being said, I am saddened at the fact that we will have to say goodbye to our Grade 7s but know that you are on to new and exciting experiences! For those of you who have asked me about your French films, you can find them on our MS Teams page.

See you all soon !

<3 Ms. Ramen