December 1st Hums Update

Sorry for the late update.  Ended up down at the stampede grounds yesterday for the Comic Expo Christmas Market which led to this:

Gotta start em young I guess.  And yes, that is a Chewbacca Christmas shirt I'm wearing.


Anyhow, we got started working on our modern folk tales task last week.  We'll have the laptops this week to finish up the written portions, and then we can start working on our Illuminated Manuscript front pages.

I've made the task sheet available on the blog earlier this week.  In the interest of taking care of our pennies at the school I've decided to start minimizing how much photocopying I'm doing so I won't be printing out class sets anymore.  I'm still more than happy to print copies on request, but it's pretty mindboggling just how big the photocopying budget for a school like TMC can be.  I remember an old principal of mine (at a much smaller school) telling us that we typically spent close to 10,000 dollars a year on paper, toner, and maintenance.

Doing things electronically is also significantly better for the environment, so this is a pretty good kick in the pants to do something positive that way too.

As an important FYI: Because we use Google Classroom and most of my task sheets will be in Google Docs I will just mention that in order to access them please make sure you are logged in using your school Gmail account.  It only lets me share links within the CBE, so if you are trying to log in with your personal account it will start pinging my phone with messages, and manual approval only works like 50% of the time.

Dad Joke of the Week (Star Wars themed this time)
Why did the movies come out 4-5-6-1-2-3-7-8?
In charge of scheduling, Yoda was.

Science in the News

Here is a link to the slides and resources for today's science task. The write up is due on Monday if you didn't get it finished in class.  Please place it in your shared folder on the drive.

Science in the news - Week 1 - Seabins

Reminder that the Pythagorean Practice worksheets are due on Monday as well. The first sheet and questions 1-6 on the second sheet.

Happy Weekend!!

Folk Tale Task Sheet

Here is the task sheet for the Folk/Fairy tale assignment.  Please remember, you need to be logged in with your school google account for the link to work properly. 

Task Sheet

Bill Nye Simple Machines

For those band students that were away at camp, we watched the Bill Nye Video on Simple Machines. The topics were all discussed in class today but this video is worth a watch to review today's lesson and for the entertainment factor!

Bill Nye - Simple Machines

Mechanical Systems textbook link

New Science Unit

I have added a link to the textbook resource for the Mechanical Systems Unit we are starting. You can find it under the Important Link Section on the right hand side of the page.

I enjoyed chatting with your parents about all the projects you have been working on the last couple of months.

Have a great weekend. See you on Monday!

Nov 22 Hums

Hopefully everyone had a great time at band camp over the past couple days.  For those of you who missed out on it, we watched these Youtube videos while you were gone.

One of the things that, even to this day we use to almost define a culture is their food.  When people think of India their thoughts often turn to Curries, spice, and Naan bread.  Japan brings to mind Sushi and Yakisoba.  England makes us think of Fish and Chips, Mushy Peas, and Meat Pies.  Even within Canada we think of Fish and Lobster from the Atlantic provinces, Poutine and Maple Syrup from Quebec, and of course, our own Alberta Beef.

Food also has class connotations.  We all know of the starving college student stereotype, surviving on Raman noodles and stale hot dog buns.  Contrast that with the wall street banker buying a 100 dollar steak for lunch every day.

That begs the question, what did food look like in England during the Middle Ages?  This is a short youtube series looking at how people across four main classes within the medieval world ate.  It also provides a very interesting look at how class was reflected in the food that was eaten.

Youtube Playlist Medieval Food

Nov 20 SMATH Update

Mid Unit Review

I have posted a link to the Mid-Unit Review in case you forget to bring yours home over the weekend.

Reminder that we have a small quiz on Monday (4 questions) to check your understanding of squares and square roots before we move on to Pythagorean theorem.