H Class Blog

  Introduction ~ Greetings, my name is Arshiaa and I am in Mr. Hodgkinson’s grade 7 class! My favourite subjects are maths and science. I immensely enjoy swimming, painting, and spending time with my friends. I am very excited to write this week’s blog! The Rose ~ The rose is definitely our Mystery unit! I would love to describe it but I can’t break the class rule! As my classmate mentioned in last week's blog, we are doing connected lessons after each episode. This week we dug deep into confidence men/women (con people) and cons also known as scams!  This was a very interesting topic to learn about! We connected it to mathematics and learned about financial money schemes. We also read about some of the most popular "confidence scams", so we will not fall victim to them. We also connected this to drama -- more on that below. The Thorn ~ This week, our teacher, Mr. Hodgkinson, unfortunately, got Covid. We were expecting to continue our Mystery Unit but because of this unfo...

Introduction - Hi, my name is Desi, and I’m writing this week's blog. My Favorite subjects are Literacy and Science. I truly enjoy playing volleyball and listening to music! This week was generally calm, but we did a lot of fun activities. The Rose -  Without exception the rose is, our mystery unit. After each chapter and doing connected lessons, it still fascinates. I'd describe it to you, but I don't want to give anything away.  Literacy Links -  The class also created a fast food Shapegram and told us about their favourite fast foods using rich descriptive language. They also got to design their own fast food brand names, and there were many visually appealing ones with awesome logos and creative names. This was part of our Media Literacy and Advertising/Persuasion studies. Here's mine, but they can all be seen here . Math - We are learn how to add, divide, and multiply fractions in math! And learned how to use various problem-solving tools, such as area models, hand...