Duration: 2 weeks Grade Level: 5-8 Pre-requisite Skills: N/A Description: In this course students will learn all about comics and graphic novels. The course will include an exploration of this text form as well as an opportunity for students to create their own comic strip!
Author: Steven Spencer
Comics and Graphic Novels Gr. 2-4
Duration: 2 weeks Grade Level: 2-8 Pre-requisite Skills: Description: In this course students will learn all about comics and graphic novels. The course will include an exploration of this text form as well as an opportunity for students to create their own comic strip!
Financial Math - Budget RPG Gr. 5-8
Duration: 2 Weeks Grade Level: 5 – 8 Pre-requisite Skills: Google account, Zoom Description: This course will explore budgeting through a role playing game. Sessions will explore monthly expenses, salaries, and investment strategies. Students will use Google Sheets to help build a personal budget and will adjust and maintain their budget as new challenges…
Literacy Foundations 1 on 1
Course Name: Literacy Foundations Duration: 2 weeks – 45 min 1:1 sessions each day Grade Level: 1-6 Pre-requisite Skills: N/A Description: This course will provide targeted early literacy instruction to struggling or reluctant readers. Students will participate in a diagnostic assessment to determine specific areas of need. Each 45 minute session will focus on a…
Grade 7/8 Had an Eventful September
Hello Lakeshore Community!
The grade 7/8 class had a very busy start to the School year! In Math class, the students have been working very diligently on the Saxon Algebra program as they learn new skills and activate their prior knowledge. The grade 7’s have been reviewing the basic mathematical operations, order of operations, long multiplication, long division and solving word problems. The grade 8’s have been reviewing math operations involving fractions as well as angles, polygons, perimeter, area and circumference. They are ready for more challenges as move into October!
In Science class, the grade 7 class has been learning about Pure Substances and Mixtures, and different ways to separate mixtures. The grade 8 class has been learning about Fluids and Viscosity, and conducted a rate flow experiment involving household materials. It was a bit chaotic but informative!
We also had a busy month in terms of our Outdoor Experiential education. In addition to having a great time at Lake Ontario Park, and participating in the Terry Fox Run – the grade 7/8 class went on a kayaking trip in Gananoque where the students had an amazing time. Our skills and stamina were put to the test!
We are looking forward to the new learning and challenges ahead!
Goodbyes, Fundraising and Road Racing
These last two weeks a lot happened in our class…and school! Some exciting/sad things that took place included: the Fort Henry Road Race, we organized a car wash for our end of year trip, Raghad one of our international students’ had her last day in Canada and had to travel back to Saudia Arabia, and Claire Schleger got to share her personal project story with a public school class.
Last Monday, Lakeshore’s Track and Field team left to run a race at Fort Henry. They left around 8:45 AM in the morning. Senior Girls (Grades 7 & 8) ran 2.5 km and
Senior Boys (Grades 7 & 8) ran 3.4 km. This was not an easy race because the terrain for this race was very bumpy and there were a lot of uphills and downhill. Everyone did awesome in their race and tried their best, there was A LOT of sweat! After the race, every runner from grade 3-8 got a ride to Mcdonalds and got a Mcflurry, a sweet treat to end the race!
Last Thursday was our Lakeshore Car Wash to raise money for our end of year trip.It was organized by the Grade by the Grade 7-8 class and 5-6 class! At the car wash, there was also a BBQ run by Mr. Schleger, the BBQ was amazing. We had many customers and raised around $700.00 before other costs. We all had different roles and some of us washed the tires, bumpers, windows and more! We had people advertise on the side of the road by holding signs and yelling at cars to come in! Because of the good advertising we had, we managed to draw in many Amy’ Taxis’s and a few of their cars came by and supported us! A lot of parents also showed up to the car wash. It was a pretty busy day and we got all got really wet and grimy.
On Thursday night our class went to Jack Astors to have a farewell dinner with Raghad our international student who is heading back to Saudi Arabia. The entire class came. The teachers that came were Ms. Singh, Ms. Bullock, Ms. Trish, Ms. Tonya and Mr. Schleger. Ms. Singh organized the dinner and the cake and brought gifts that each 7-8 student paid $5.00 dollars each for. I think Raghad really liked the custom-made mug that had pictures of our class on it. Other students also brought gifts for Raghad, it was sad to say good-bye and maybe one day we will get to go to the Middle East to visit her!
Finally, for part of her personal project, Claire Schleger wrote a novella about a young girl who challenged the status quo by trying out for a boy’s baseball team. She contacted different schools about organizing a reading to young classes and her first reading was organized by J.R. Henderson Public School.
She got to read her story to a grade 4 class and they all loved her story and asked her lots of interesting questions! It’s cool to see how different all of our personal projects are and how we get to involved in the community.
In conclusion, that’s been our busy last two weeks at #theshore!
By: Kevin Chen
Busking, LCVI Road Race, All Science Challenge and Court Trials!
“Levitate away from you, Levitate away from us….” These are beautiful lines heard murmuring in the air on the corner of Wellington and Princess St last week. The lines were from the original song “Levitate” written and preformed by Aaron Mason as part of his personal project. As part of his project, Aaron decided to write and perform songs and busk in the streets of Kingston so he could raise funds for the Joe’s Mill Music Lending library. He has already raised $220! Please look out for him on the streets of K-town tomorrow!
Last week students pushed their physical and academic limits in preparing for the LCVI 2.8KM road race AND at the All Science Challenge Quiz Game! Our 7/8 Lakeshore crew ran their best, and many of them came in the top 100 with over 3000 students across Kingston in attendance! At the All Science Challenge, our all female team of Claire Schleger, Quintyn Zuber, Megan Ding and Lily Naaman came in FIRST PLACE and won the gold medal! They rocked their knowledge in the categories of space, engineering, environmental science, physics, chemistry and more…congrats to these STEM focused ladies!
This week, our class danced all our worries away at the annual “Celebration of Dance” festival at Fort Henry! The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and Taylor Swift was blasting from the speakers…and our class brought their best salsa moves! Special shoutout to Anders and Aaron who insisted they lead the dance celebration festivities next year! Just kidding!
Finally, we ended our week on a suspenseful, controversial, and passionate note with our “Court Trial for the murders of Romeo and Juliet!” Our classroom was transformed into a courtroom, and the jury was carefully selected from the Grade 1 and 2 class. There was shouting. There were tears. There were shocking secrets revealed! The prosecution and defense teams had two weeks to write, prepare, and deliver opening and closing statements, witness statements, and ultimately, prove their opposing team WRONG! The students were incredible in their roles, and their characters came alive through passionate dialogue and memorable costumes! Special thanks to Chris (Noah’s Godmother) for lending us the costumes!
Concerts, Movies and the Joy of Long Distance Running
The week began on Sunday with one of our very own students, Shaun Malik who organized a wonderful recital to raise funds for the Joe M.I.L.L. which is a musical lending library as a part of his personal project. He spent the last 5 months investigating how music can help people feel better and more emotionally positive. This event took please at the Waterford Kingston Retirement Residence. Shaun chose this venue in the month of December and found someone named Mari who helped him organize the event. Shaun also organized a bake sale which was right after the recital. He raised $534.10 and donate all the money to the Joe M.I.L.L Fund! Great work Shaun, we are proud of you!
In math this week the grade 7/8 class had their math presentations about financial planning. They have been working on them for a couple of months and they are now finally finished them with an excellent understanding of the financial world and how to save money for our future.
In Language arts this week, the grade 7/8 class had their symbolism presentations. Over the last couple of weeks, they have had to create a poster with 3 symbols that they think have a powerful meaning over Romeo and Juliet. One of the symbols had to be a character from the book and the rest of them had to be actual symbols from the book. There were 5 groups and they all presented on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they were all creative and the drawings were very unique
In History this week the grade 7/8 class went to the Indian Horse movie which was at the Screening room. This movie was very powerful and made everyone think about the effects of Residential Schools on First Nations people. We also got to enjoy popcorn and candy, a special treat!
In Science this week everyone in the grade 7/8 class was preparing for the All Science Challenge, we prepared for this event by quizzing each other and completing worksheets. The one week countdown is on until this big event!
Also this week there was the Bayridge Road Race. The grade 7/8 ran to run 2.9 km and all the boys and girls completed the race and did very well! Raghad ran this time for the first time ever, and Shaun finished in 36 place and Kevin in 65th place! We were all exhausted but not too exhausted to enjoy ice cream sandwiches at the end of the race!
By Shaun Malik
Pasta for A Purpose- Came to Fruition!
After two months of planning, organizing and food prepping, the Grade 7/8 “Fundraising Four Course Dinner” came together as a beautiful evening on April 5th, 2018. The event was hosted at the Kingston Gospel Temple at the Fireside Room and all meal preparation took place in the kitchen on site.
All eleven students in class shared various roles in hosting, waiting on, cooking, clean up, performance, and public speaking at the event. We were grateful to have the help and support of Richard Louie (Parent at the school) who helped with the meal preparation and organization in the kitchen.
The students raised over $1100 and over 54 tickets were sold for the event! In light of hosting a challenging event, the students worked seamlessly together and supported each other in ensuring all our guests received the “five star treatment!” Guests commented on how professional the students appeared in their various roles and enjoyed seeing students step out of their comfort zone. Not only did our class enjoy cooking and baking, students were also meaningfully engaged in the event planning process and learned valuable skills such as: group decision making, creation of advertising and communication tools, presentation skills, collaboration, conflict resolution, and budget analysis!
The morning after the event, we reflected on the successes and challenges of putting together such an event and made a list of recommendations we would incorporate in the future. Perhaps, the largest marker of success, was that our very own Aaron Mason went home on the weekend and replicated the Chocolate Mousse dessert for his family!
This example of student-led event organizing provided our class with an opportunity and event we will soon not forget!
Ms. Singh
