Great Day All Around

It was a great day on the court for the Eagles. You made your coaches proud. You continue to prove to me that we have the BEST students at Eastdale!

Remember your geography test for tomorrow, and we will leave for OP at 9:15. They have asked that you do NOT bring Ipods and phones on this trip. If you bring them to school tomorrow, please make sure you have a lock to lock them in your locker.

Hey Adam...

Are you out there? How's it going? Hope you've settled into your new digs well. We miss you.

Reflection Notes from Math

 
Math Homework for tonight is pg 400 #2-5


Remember to think carefully about where your 'mirror line' goes and what patterns you can use to help you figure the question out.

Cartesian Plane

Would you make a good pirate?
Here are our notes from today's class.
Homework is to complete pg 397 #4,6,7,8 and answer the Reflect question in a comment on this post.
Remember to plot your x-coordinate first and then find your y-coordinate.

Art - Impressionism

Impressionism is a style of painting that began in Paris, France in the mid-1800s. Unlike artists before them, the impressionists painted most of their paintings outdoors and liked to portray natural subjects like trees, fields, and oceans. Impressionists would often take their materials outdoors and paint what they saw. This is called painting “en plein air.”

When impressionists painted pictures of people, they made them look like people you would see everyday. Rather than painting religious figures or royalty, impressionists painted people like the local tavern owner, a girl eagerly awaiting the beginning of a play, or workers resting in bales of hay. They often used their own family and friends as subjects in their paintings.

Before the impressionists, painters usually placed the main subject of their painting in the center. It was the first thing the viewer looked at and the background was not nearly as important. Before the impressionists, the main focus was, more often than not, placed in the middle of the painting. Impressionists often put more emphasis on the scene than on the person or main subject of the painting. To do this, they painted the main subject off to the side rather than in the center of the painting. An impressionist painting looks more like a photograph in this way. A photograph captures not only the main subject, but everything around the subject and everything in the photo is important. Photography was just becoming popular in the mid-1800s and influenced the way the impressionists looked at things.

The style was called impressionism because the artists were not as exacting about painting a realistic picture. They used many short brush strokes, applying paint thickly, to create the idea, or impression, of a subject. Vincent van Gogh is a good example of this technique. The paint on his canvases is often so thick it looks 3D. Look at this painting, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and notice the short brush strokes. Also, the painting is so thick that you can see the shadows from the paint. Because of the quick, short strokes, if you stand very close to an impressionist painting and look at it, often the painting won’t look like anything but a bunch of paint blobs. When you back away from it, though, you can see the whole picture.

Another characteristic of impressionist painting is the study of light. The way light changed the shadows and colors of subjects was of much interest to impressionists. For example, Claude Monet often painted in series, making many pictures of the same subject at different times throughout the day and in different seasons to see how the lighting affected his paintings.

Celtic Games

Ideas forFriday.checkout the site here

http://www.teamathletics.ca/programs/highland-games.asp

really good site with gym layout for 8-13 year olds

　

　

Caber Toss

　

A truly Celtic event, the caber toss, involves flipping a long cylindrical piece of wood (the caber) and having it accurately land pointing away from you. This is thought to originate from the need to toss trees over rivers so that people on the other side could cross.

Start with a light piece of wood for your child, less than 20 lbs or so. Explain to them that the object is to make the caber end up at 12 o'clock while they are at 6 o'clock, or you can draw the line. Get a larger caber for yourself and compete against your child; the winner is the one with the caber closest to 12 o'clock.

　

　

Celtic Slang

　

Teaching your children Celtic slang from Ireland, Wales and Scotland can be a lot of fun as it will sound especially silly to younger children. There are many different ways you can base a game around this. You can rip up little pieces of paper with the Celtic sayings on it and have the kids attempt to guess the meaning of the phrase. For example, a piece of paper could say, "pull your socks up" and the kids could all work together to come up with the meaning (which is "get to work").

Make it part of a relay, where two teams of kids compete: each child answers a slang question and then shoots a basketball into a hoop or a quarter into a trashcan. The team that finishes first wins. A follow-up game can involve your kids doing a little scene using all the sayings that they can remember.

　

　

　

Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, guards Queen Boudicca's castle where you are invited to cross the bridge and enter to make your very own crown or princess hat! Stone-Putters 　 The best stones used by stone-putters are untouched by tools. They are found naturally in the bottom of rivers, worn smooth over time by the water. Early athletes used these smooth, round stones in their competitions. The stone-putters can practice their sport practically anywhere at little or no cost, because the only things they need are stones and ground. This made the sport easily accessible throughout Scotland, and was often practiced in farmyards and villages. The distances thrown by stone-putters at early gatherings were much longer than the distances thrown today. It is not because they were stronger or more skilled, but the techniques and rules differed in the earliest Highland Gatherings. Depending on where an athlete competed, they would use different sizes, shapes and weights of stones. Larger athletes, as well as inexperienced stone-putters may power their throws mainly with their arm and shoulder, while connoisseurs of the sport have developed techniques involving many more muscles in their bodies. These strategies allow them to throw longer distances. Sheaf Tossers 　 Sheaf tossers toss a straw-filled sack [14] over a crossbar, using a three-pronged pitchfork to hoist it over the bar.[15] These sheaves are 16 pounds, and it is quite difficult for athletes to hurl them straight up and over the crossbar. It takes strength and good technique, although athletes are not restricted to tossing the sheaf with any one method. Not only do athletes work out by lifting weights, but they also use special equipment to learn how to do the sheaf toss.[1] The sheaf toss, while highly popular among spectators, is often not included in Canada, unlike the United States. In Scotland, it is often not included as a heavy event. In fact, in Scotland it is known as a farming sport. Because of this, there are athletes around the world who would like to see the sheaf toss taken out of Highland Games heavy event programs.[16][[2] Inferences to stone-putters can be seen throughout Scottish history, beginning with the ‘stone of strength,’ which was placed at highland chieftains’ entrances. The ‘Stone of Strength’ was the earlier version of putting the stone. Later, the ‘Manhood Stone’ was placed at the entrances to homes. A visitor who could lift this stone onto another stone about three or four feet high was assured hospitality and a good welcome.[2]

Hunger Games Question for pondering

“I try to forgive her for my father’s sake. But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type.”

What does Katniss mean by this statement?

What does it tell us about her personality?

What does the author want me to think/know or feel about people who are not the ”forgiving type”?

Improving your answers...

Please make sure that you are including the following in your answers

Restate question in your answer.

Develop a “gist” answer.                                          

Uses details from the text to support your answer.

Develop conclusion .                             

                           

Stay on topic .

For example, you may begin an answer to the question, "In the Hunger Games, the Tributes are known for their significant strength and training. This usually leads them to victories in the Games. Is it better to be stronger or smarter in life?" in the following way:

In life, there are many situations that require both brains and brawn.  Unfortunately we can't always be both the strongest and the smartest in every situation. In the Hunger Games novel ...                                              

Hunger Games Questions

These are for Tuesday's class. Please answer in your gmail and 'share' the document with me so I can read it. Make sure to back up your work along the way so you don't loose it. You have 2 periods to answer the questions so be sure to answer them thoroughly. If you finish early and have checked them over, please continue to update your Fakebook page.

1 - Peeta aligns with the Careers and Katniss eventually aligns with Rue. What are the benefits of alliances? What are the downfalls?

2 - Would you join an alliance or play the game on your own? Why?

3 - What does the word 'rue' mean? What does it mean to 'rue the day?' How is this symbolic of Rue's death?

Hunger Games

Peeta says that he doesn't want to lose himself once the Games begin and that he wants to prove he's not just a 'piece in their Games.' What does he mean by this?

Ratio and Percent

percent and ratio

In math, we've looked at percentages, decimals and fractions.
Here are a couple of sites to try out. Please submit a comment to me on how it worked for you.

Troy's Toys

Percentages