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Learning Opportunities for Grade 8 Prime Week of May 4th School Vision: Motivating, Compassionate, Successful
School Mission: Making a difference….Committed to learning….Supporting each other
Do the best you can! Focus on life skills, physical activity, mental well-being, creative expression, social responsibility and
social connections. Stay healthy and safe!
Try to work on the learning opportunities for 1 hour each day.
Math Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week is all about Statistics and Probability! If you get stuck, feel free to contact your teacher. Once you feel you have a good understanding of the material, try out the escape room. Can you beat the clock and escape?!?! Maybe phone a friend and try it together. Have fun! **In an effort to make this document size more manageable, we have added in many links for you to use. Anything that is blue and underlined is a link to support that particular activity. ** [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Play Leprechaun Luck
1. Each player places 12 Lucky Charms cereal pieces (or any cereal or game piece you have) in any location on his or her game board. All of the pieces can be placed on one number, one on each number, or any other combination.
2. Players take turns rolling the two dice and adding to find the sum.
3. The student who rolled the dice removes all the pieces from that spot on his or her board.
4. Players keep taking turns rolling dice and removing cereal until one person has removed all the cereal from his or her own board. The winner is the player who is the first to remove all the Lucky Charms.
Go to the Leprechaun Luck game sheet. You can quickly draw your own just on paper if you don’t have access to a printer. If you don’t have dice just put pieces of paper in two different containers, one for each dice. Put #1-6 in each container and you draw one number
Working with averages The mean, median and mode are all ways to find an average.
You need to know how to find these for this week’s Escape Room. The mean, median and mode toads can teach you how. Or maybe you want to learn through the Mean Median and Mode Song
from each container when playing like you would get a number on each dice and add them up to get the sum or click to access online dice .
The Horse Race Game Check out The Horse Race game. Give it a try! It’s great family fun! See if you can be the winner!
Probability with Candy!! Grab a bag of different colored candy like skittles or M&Ms. Dump out the candy pieces and count how
many you have of each colour. Now put them back in the bag. What is the probability that you will pick a red candy? A green one? A yellow one? Don’t have candy…use game pieces or maybe even your colored socks! Be creative.
Ice Cream Scoops There are six different flavours of ice cream: chocolate, vanilla, mint, strawberry, butterscotch, Neapolitan. How many different ice cream cones can be made by choosing two scoops from these six flavours?
Probability warm-up Check out some more probability activities on this website. online probability activities
Math Practice Questions Want to try out some practice questions until you get the hang of it. The link below will take you to some practice pages you can try. We have included the answers for you but remember to try the questions before looking at the answers!! https://mcsmckinley.weebly.com/covid-19-learning-opportunities.html
Online Escape Room Can you save Han Solo in time? Are you ready to put those probability skills to good use? Good luck and “May the Force be With You”
https://platform.breakoutedu.com/game/play/one-in-a-million-a-star-wars-story-175083
Stretch Your Thinking Try out the UNB Math Competition site for some extra challenges. It’s always good to challenge yourself to go above and beyond when you can. http://www.math.unb.ca/mathcomp/test-papers.html
Everyday uses of Math Remember that a lot of games you have sitting around your
house include math skills. Some suggestions to try: Card games, monopoly, Life, Yahtzee, Battleship, Checkers, Chess, Sudoku, Crib, War, Crazy 8’s, Go fish, Uno
Jigsaw puzzles Puzzles are another great use of math skills. Just don’t be like Mrs. Miller where you finish the puzzle only to discover there is ONE PIECE MISSING!
Language Arts Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 45 minutes per day
+30 minutes per day of Reading [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Reading Scholastic articles
Read the following article about the jungle of secrets and the Maya people: https://junior.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/100818/jungle-of-secrets.html#940L OR Read the article about the future of zoos: https://junior.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/051319/the-future-of-zoos.html#1090L
Reading Epic!
Mrs. Elliott has signed everyone up for Epic! This is a great website for reading. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in
Once you have reached the site, go to student login and use class code: iej3195
Log/Journal
Keep a daily log/journal of what is happening in your life, your community, your country, or around the world.
Keeping a journal not only helps your writing, but can be very therapeutic
Word Work - Idioms Use this link to help you learn about idioms. Create a game for your family and friends by illustrating your favorite idioms and having others guess them. Unveiling idioms: A Game of Concentration Here is a great link with hundreds of idioms to learn: English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions website What’s your favorite idiom? I hope you are pleased as punch with this activity and have a barrel of laughs playing.
Spelling – Book Worm
https://www.kibagames.com/Game/BookWorm
Spelling & Word Work
https://www.spellingcity.com/spelling-games-vocabulary-games.html Podcast
Listen to this Podcast from ReadWriteThink, titled Life Stories
Episode 58 – Life Stories
Life stories are books that trace defining moments and turning points in people’s lives. By
exploring how individuals overcome obstacles and discover their passions – or fall prey to
mistakes and inner demons – life stories illustrate how human beings navigate the complexities
of living. Tune in to hear about a variety of life stories – some that celebrate lives of success,
others that mourn lives tragically lost or wasted.
Writing Prompts – Choose one
1) Write a letter to your principal attempting to persuade them to make a change you think is necessary in your school.
2) Write about the most excruciating pain you have ever felt. Use sensory details (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell).
3) Reflect on the following quotation: “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.”-Oprah Winfrey
4) Who is someone you admire? What makes this person so admirable? 5) Write about a topic about which you know more than most people. 6) Tell the story of the funniest thing that has ever happened in one of your
classes.
Science Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week we focus on Space. “May the Forth, be with you!”. Pick any of the activities you’d like to try. There are several links within the document to help you out. These are new this week as we are learning how to make things better for you! Remember that science is all about discovery and trying to find out how and why things work. Don’t be afraid to make your observations by taking pictures or videos. Have fun! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Star Wars: May the 4th Be With You! What does May the Fourth be with you mean? May the Fourth be with you is the catchphrase of Star Wars Day on May 4th, the unofficial holiday celebrating the Star Wars franchise. It is a pun on a famous line from Star Wars, May the Force be with you! May the 4th Be With You!
Research and explore the planets of our Solar System. There’s a lot to learn about space !
There are even great Solar System Songs to learn about Planets Around A Star!
Keep a journal of the phases of the moon over the next few weeks by drawing what the moon looks like every night or every couple of nights. What do you notice?
Add a little fun with a tasty way to represent what you’ve learned! Try to replicate the moon phases using Oreo cookies Yum! Get your groove on with phases of the moon or moon phases.
Put your artistic skills to work! Using things you can find at home, make a model or drawing of our Solar System.
7) Imagine you are in quarantine and you are sitting at home one day. You hear someone shrieking in the living room. They see a mouse in the house! Write a story about what might happen next.
8) Write a sequel to one of your favorite fairy tales. For example, what happened to all the dwarves in Snow White? What was Goldilocks' next adventure after she left the three bears?
9) A tall tale is a story that exaggerates something that may or may not have happened. Write a tall tale about something that happened to you. The good news? In a tall tale you can exaggerate and lie! How big and outlandish can your story become?
10) I peeked through the curtains. There was a limo parked outside with two bodyguards. I heard a knock on the front door.....
11) A fictional narrative story choice of your own!
What is a solar eclipse? Solar Eclipse video The next Solar Eclipse 2024, will be seen in Eastern Canada on April 8th, 2024. We could be perfectly in the path of totality to see this one! It has been announced that famous astronaut Chris Hadfield will be visiting an area pretty close to us for the event.
Check out what it will look like in your area. Areas to experience solar eclipse
What is a comet ? Try out your artistic side. Make a comet on a stick
Why do we have day and night? It’s all about Earth’s rotation .
Seasons and the Sun Why do we have changing seasons?
Have you ever taken the time to look at the night sky? What do you see? Constellations. Find some May constellations in the night sky. There are some apps that help you identify what you are looking at in the night sky. Draw some constellations of your own. What do you see when you look at the night sky?
Social Studies Learning Opportunites
Choose from the activities below for a total of 1-2 hours a week. Remember that Social Studies is all about the world around us. Watch the news, visit a museum or research some Canadian history.
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Daily News CNN 10 in 10 is a current events/news broadcast made especially for students. The shows are ten minutes long and show one major news story, a human interest story and trivia. There are five shows a week Monday- Friday. They can be watched on YouTube or the CNN Ten in Ten website. Previous shows are viewable as well. Pick at least one day to view and reflect on the chart below or watch every day!
CNN Student News
1. Write a reflection on what you learned
List 5 things that you learned.
Explore a Virtual Museum Greetings all you inquisitive students. While all museums around the world are physical closed due to COVID-19, they are also opening the virtual doors. Each week for rest of the school year, we will be featuring a different museum around the world to explore. This week we are returning to our home province to learn a little more about our history. Did you know we have the New Brunswick Museum located in Saint John? Located in Market Square, it guides us through the history and people of our province. While we cannot visit in in person right now, we can explore it virtually. Click the link below that will take you to all kinds of exhibits and topics from our own history!
There is also a current contest! Calling All New Brunswickers – children and adults! There are prizes! Click the link for contest outline and rules and tells you where to submit your entry!
Main Site - https://www.nbm-mnb.ca/ Virtual Site - https://www.nbm-mnb.ca/virtual-exhibitions/
The Importance of Trade to Canada Spend some time researching Canada and our trade partners. Trade is an important function for our economy. We rely on other countries to send us the products we need and we supply countries with products they need. With the borders closed for personal travel, how important is it that they remain open for trade? What would happen if the borders were closed for everything? Questions to consider? - Who does Canada trade the most with? - What is the importance of the USCMA agreement? (formally known as NAFTA) - What are some of Canada’s largest exports and imports? - Who is Canada’s trade minister? What role does he play?
World Trade Day Your country has an underdeveloped economy, but you have the ability to produce goods. Your job: increase business through trade by carrying out a trade mission to another country – Canada! In order to be successful, you will have to compile as much information as you can about on your country and present it in an interesting and unique way to entice a high government official of Canada to set up a trading relationship. Your information should include: Information on your country: location, economy,
climate, and natural resources, flag, ($) imports, ($)
exports, recent GDP, currency and exchange rate
The product and why Canadians would want it
How the product will be best transported to Canada
Current production figures (like quantity and season)
MCS Physical Education at Home May 4-8
Hello there everyone! I hope that you are all getting outside and keeping active. That can look very different with a variety of activities that you can be involved in. Here are some activities for the week. Do your best!!
Monday It’s all about jumping and coordination. Find a box that you can jump out of. Start inside the box and jump out. If that is too easy then get a higher box to attempt. Measure and record the highest box you can jump out of. Set up a series of boxes that get higher and see if you can do a continuous jump in and out of the boxes without stopping.
Skipping in a row without missing
Line jumps in a row before stopping
Standing long jump (as far as you can go and record it)
Tuesday Target Tuesday Throwing *Try different types of throws: overhand, underhand, side arm (using what type of throw can you throw the farthest?) *throw different items, Frisbee, ball, football, crumbled paper, (which goes farther?) *use boxes from yesterday as targets from various distances. How many times out of 10 can you get the object in the box. How can you make it harder? Smaller box? , longer distance?
Wednesday Get outside and go for a walk. Walk the dog, walk a parent!
Thursday It’s flyer day! Use a page from a flyer and try these activities *hold the page in front of you and start running as fast as needed to keep the page from falling. Can you do a lap around the house, no hands on the paper. *Can you go a shorter distance and change direction quickly without it falling. *use a page and let go of it from eye height, can you do a push-up or a burpee and catch it before it hits the ground.
Friday Fitness
8 minute run without stopping
60 second plank, 50 jumping jacks, 40 lunges, 30 burpees, 20 squats, 10 push-ups
1 min high knees, 1 min bicep curls, 1 min crunches