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Learning Opportunities for Grade 8 FI
Week of May 18-22
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
2 hours each day.
Every Day – 30 Minutes of Reading & 30 Minutes of Physical Activity
A Note From Your Teachers!
This week is all about fishing! Be sure to let us know how you make out if you get a chance to go fishing.
Check out some of your teachers who enjoy fishing as well.
Mrs. Bird likes to get out fishing with her kids whenever
she can. Her husband and kids enjoy fly fishing. She
prefers the brooks. There’s nothing like being outside in
the fresh air and sun!
Mr. McKinley is spending his time chasing around a little “Baby Shark”. Can you guess who it might be?
Mr. Clark enjoys sharing his love for fishing with his kids! I
wonder who’s the best fisherman? Ava’s looks pretty big! I
think Mr. Clark might have some competition!
It looks pretty chilly wherever it is Mrs. Miller is fishing!
Hopefully the weather will cooperate this week for you all
to get out fishing if you can!
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A view of the Saint John river from Mademoiselle Shaw's house. Can you guess
what type of fish you might find in there?
Math Learning Opportunities Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week is all about Fishing Fun! If you get stuck, feel free to contact your teacher.
Try out the escape room. Can you beat the clock and escape?!?! Maybe phone a friend and try it together. Have fun!
Multiplication Practice
Try out your multiplication skills in the Fish Shop
Multiplication Game
Fisherman’s Luck
Fishing for the Right Fish
Put your probability skills to the
test!
Go Fish!
Play a game of Go Fish!
Try this modified version called Tens Go
Fish! Could you be the winner?
Tasty Graphs
Do you have a bag of
rainbow goldfish
crackers or some other
coloured snack? Sort
out the colours and
create a graph. What do
you notice?
Compare two bags. Are
they the same?
Can you figure out the probability of picking each colour?
Fish Sampling
Check out the fish sampling activity. It combines math
and science together! If you don’t have goldfish crackers,
just use any other small item you have several of that you
can either mark on, put a sticker on, or mark in some way
to make it different so it can be identified.
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Get Mike the Trout Home! – Escape Room
See if you can avoid the fishermen and escape to freedom!
https://platform.breakoutedu.com/game/play/gone-fishing-a-math-review-
game-175083
Something Fishy Puzzle
Can you solve the puzzle? Try the online match fish and
more match stick puzzles.
Fancy Fish!
Do you like this fish art? It’s actually a mathematical
concept called a Tessellation!
Try colouring your own
Fish Tessellation
A Little Review Material
To complete Mr. McKinley’s Fishing Escape Room you’ll
need to know how to add, subtract, mulitply and divide
integers. If you need a refresher, or aren’t quite sure how
to do these maybe ask a parent or older sibling for some
help or check out some videos and visuals online like the
one attached.
You also need to remember how to find the area of shapes.
Go Fishing! And while you are out, think about these questions….
Cast Away!
Practice casting your fishing rod in a safe space away from others where you won’t hook
anyone or anything. Take a tape measure and check the length of the line you cast out. If
you don’t have a tape measure use something else to measure like shoes or a stick. What
is the average distance you can cast? What was your longest cast? Your shortest cast? If
you don’t have a fishing rod, try tossing something like a ball or toy and measure that
distance.
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Estimate and Measure Fish!
If you are able to get out fishing and are lucky enough to
catch some, measure your fish to see how long they are.
Remember, the ones that are
too small need to be put back
so be careful removing the
hook. We need them to grow
big for next year! If you can’t
get out to a pond, try out your
estimating and measuring
skills on these fish.
Worm Measuring - Speed required for this one!
Catch some worms or night crawlers.
Put them on your deck or driveway for a short time and
see if you can measure them. You’ll have to be quick! You
may end up having to estimate their length. What is the
difference in their measurement when they stretch out vs
when they pull back together? Be sure to put them back
on the grass or in the garden when done.
Science Learning Opportunities
Choose from these tasks for a total of 30 minutes a day.
This week we focus on Fishing Fun! Pick any of the activities you’d like to try. There are several links within
the document to help you out. Remember that science is all about discovery and trying to find out how
things work. Don’t be afraid to make your observations by taking pictures/videos. Have fun!
Fish Superpowers!
Check out the following fish adaptations!
What other adaptations can you think of that help fish
survive in their environment? What about adaptations of
other animals?
I know you love hearing the Adaptations song in class! Go
ahead and sing along!
Worms or Nightcrawlers?
Want to catch some fish? You’ll need night crawlers and
worms! What is the difference? How do you catch them
and how do you find them?
Test your luck and see how many night crawlers or
worms you can find!
When it’s raining, rumour has it Mr. Clark goes to the
school parking lot to get his worms for fishing and Mrs.
Bird gets them off her driveway. Why would the worms
be there?
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What is a superstition? Do you know any fishing
superstitions?
Ask a family member about what fishing superstitions
they know.
Yummy Seafood!
Is eating fish good for you? What are the best fish to eat?
What are the 12 Best Types of
Fish to eat?
Some people choose not to
eat fish. Why do you think
this is?
Some facts about fish in NB.
Ice Fishing in May?
Try your luck at Ice
Fishing with this
experiment!
Slippery Fish, Slippery Fish…
Make a Paper Fish Swim with Surface Tension in this
experiment!
Floating Fish?
How do fish float or sink? Learn how to make your own
bobbing fish toy . (Note blue tack is just clay or play
dough.)
This is also known as a Cartesian
Diver! Steve Spangler explains how
they work and why.
You can also make a scuba diver .
There are many variations of this cool
experiment. Check them out online or
come up with your own!
What is a Fish Anyways?
What makes a fish a fish? What are the major
species of fish people try to catch in NB? Can you
name 5? Here are fish species found in New
Brunswick
Extension
What is an
invasive
species? Do we have any issues with invasive fish in
NB?
Here are some sites you might want to check out!
- Invading Species of Fish Protect our rivers from
- Didymo
- Zebra Mussels
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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 & Writing
Scholastic article
Read the following fishing story:
https://storyworks.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/020120/the-big-one.html
Continue the Learning Journey (details at the end of the story)
- Joe's favorite thing to do is go fishing. Think about something that you love to do.
Make a presentation about what makes this activity so great.
- This story is told in the first person, from Joe's point of view. Rewrite the story from
the point of view of the other main character, Joe's dad.
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
Reading Comprehension
Legend of the Lost Salmon https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legend-Of-The-Lost-Salmon-Yakima.html
1. What rule did the Creator teach the people about how to care for the salmon?
2. After the people became careless and neglected to follow the instructions made by the Creator, what happened to the salmon?
3. In legendary times, how could those with supernatural powers revive a lifeless creature?
4. In the legend after the people realized their mistakes, they cried, “If we are given one more chance, we will do better.” Is there a time when you made a mistake and given the chance, you would do better? If so, describe what happened and what you would, “do better”.
5. What can this legend teach us about our natural resources, particularly our fish?
Reading & Word Work Read and/or listen to the history of fish species by following this link.
Students enter class code HBJRWG and you will need to put in a
valid email (can be your school email and password)
Then learn the meaning of the vocabulary from the article
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
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French Immersion Language Arts Learning Opportunities
Choose from these learning activities, for a total of 30 minutes a day. Try to complete one learning activity
from each category (Writing, Reading, and Speaking & Listening) by the end of the week.
French TV show of the week: Found on the free CBC Gem app, or on their website.
Mehdi et Val Comedy Adventure
Thanks to mysterious swords, Valérie and her half-brother Mehdi travel between the present time and the
Middle Ages. And of course, challenges and surprises await them on each of their visits to the past.
Category Learning
Activity
Instructions Examples & Considerations
Réflexion
Que pensez-vous de tout cette neige que
nous venons d’avoir?
Exemple :
Je ne me souviens même pas de la
dernière fois que j’ai vu de la neige au
Word Work Practice homophones by clicking here.
Practice prefixes at this website.
Fishing for suffixes:
Writing – Tall Tales Tall Tales - An extravagant, fanciful, or greatly exaggerated story. Usually focuses
on the achievements of the ultimate hero. They are also sometimes called “fish
stories”
Sample:
https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/08/furbearing_trout.html
Have you ever had someone exaggerate a story to make it more fun, make
themselves more heroic or try to illustrate an impact of an adventure? Has Dad
ever told of the 6-foot fish? The one that “got away?”
Write a tall tale about a fishing expedition. You can be the main character or
someone you know or even a fictional character. What happens on their fishing
trip? It needs to be unbelievable but written in a way that the reader can live
and believe the story.
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Writing
Follow the writing process:
Plan --> Draft --> Revise --> Edit -->
Finalize
cours du mois de mai. Je ne sais pas
comment en penser. L’autre jour, j’ai
commencé de planifier mon
jardinage. Je suis content de ne pas
l’avoir fait! Au moins la neige semble
jolie!
What’s
going on in
this
picture?
Choose an image from nytimes and come
up with 2-3 written lines to describe what
you think is going on in the picture (En
Français).
There are various ways each image
could be perceived.
Reading
Poésie Choose a French poem to read
on this site by picking a poet
or a theme. What image is this
poem creating?
Draw, write or talk about the message
of this poem.
Epic Books
Mrs. Elliot has signed everyone up for Epic Books! Go Epic, click on students, type in the class code, and then find your name.
There are tons of French books
available on Epic books, fiction and
non-fiction. Find something that
interests you! Class code: iej3195
Speaking
&
Listening
20
Questions
Call a classmate and play a couple of
rounds of 20 questions (En Français)!
How to play:
One of you thinks of an object,
person or place from the top of
your head or by looking around
you.
The other tries to narrow down
what this object, person or place is
by asking OUI/NON questions!
Communication games such as this
are a great way to practice asking
questions and thinking in French!
French TV
Shows
Look through this list of French TV shows
on CBC. Not sure what to watch?
Click on the show image and then “émission” to get an overview of what the show is about.
SOCIAL STUDIES Learning Opportunities
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Choose from these learning activities, for a total of 1-2 hours per week. Remember that Social
Studies is all about inquiring about the world around us.
Learning Activity Instructions Considerations/ Follow Up
Fishing Rivers in
NB
What are the
major fishing rivers
in NB? Can you
find them on a
map? Bodies of
water of New
Brunswick
Are any of these rivers near you?
Explore a Virtual
Museum
Each week for rest of the school year, we will
be featuring a different museum around the
world to explore.
Check out the Fisheries Museum of the
Atlantic.
Within the museum website, you can
read about the history, the various
exhibits and fishing vessels.
Fishing Guidelines
and Rules
Check out the New Brunswick Fishing Guide
to learn more about fishing guidelines and
rules in our area.
How old do you have to be to go
fishing?
Do you need a license?
Are there different rules for
different areas or different
species of fish?
Fishing Heritage
in New Brunswick
Fishing is part of NB heritage.
Talk to an older friend or relative. How has
fishing changed over the years? Do we have
fewer or more fish today?
Why do you think that is?
Check out the Canadian Heritage Rivers
of New Brunswick.
First Nations Fish
Legends
Can you find a legend about a fish? Ask a
family member if they know any…
Maliseet Legends
First Nations People have many legends
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OTHER
Art: Cartooning
Check out Cartooning Club on YouTube. Students can follow tutorials and draw a variety of their favorite
characters from Marvel, Fortnite, Lego, Pokemon, etc.
PDCP: [email protected]
Practice YOGA
Set your day off right by doing some YOGA with Adriene on YouTube. This routine is titled “yoga for the
classroom”. Its purpose is to get the body and mind working in order to optimize your level of focus.
Physical Education at Home
Week of May 18-22
Monday - Throwing and catching
individually or with a partner
Have a game of catch with a partner using
various different balls and items, including
different types of throws.
Tuesday - Throwing and angles!
Design your own simple project in which you
bounce a ball off several angled surfaces and
into a target. This will require a lot of
adjustments with respect to speed of your throw
and angles of your surfaces.
Wednesday - Walk or run Wednesday
Go for a walk or run with a family member. Take
time to notice and look and listen for birds
singing and plants growing.
Thursday - Build an interval training course
with 5 stations
Do a particular number of the activity then rotate
to the next station and do the same. Be creative
and send me pics of your creation. Remember
to work hard then rest.
Friday - Balance and Flexibility
When balancing you are using several
contracted muscles to maintain your balance.
Do the Limbo!! How low can you go??
Go Fishing!!