Ms. Waye's News Blog

Monday, February 25, 2008

Only 1 week left before March Break!

Grade 9 Math - students wrote a math test today... tomorrow we will start polynomials.

Real numbers assignmenta nd page 234-237 #1-14 need to passed in tomorrow.

Grade 9 Science - Study for your test on space tomorrow.

Grade 10 Science - Test will be postponed until Wednesday. Finish sheet on molecular compounds. Start studying.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Math 9 Today we had a quiz on square roots and scientific notation. Students started page 234 #1-14 and will have time to finish in class tomorrow. This is due Tuesday.

Math 9 test Monday- square roots, scientific notation, exponent laws, irrational numbers and subsets of real numbers.

Science 9 test Tuesday

Science 10 test Tuesday

There will be extra help for science 10 Monday afterschool.

The test outline for the science test is below:
Test outline

Chemical Reactions Science 10

What is a chemical reaction?
What are the indicators of a chemical reaction? Page 173
What is a physical property? Page 173
Safety symbols and lab rules page 176-178
How is the periodic table organized. Page 185
Know how to draw a Bohr model.
Be able to calculate protons, neutrons and electrons – know their charges
What is an ion? Ionic charge – page 186 plus sheet forming ions.
Ionic compounds page 192 what is it? Valance electrons?
Writing and naming ionic compounds.
Polyatomic compounds – what are they? How to write their formula, naming polyatomic compounds, review questions 1-5 on page 198
Molecular compounds page 201
What are they? Define covalent bond, combining capacity, naming and writing formulas,


Test Outline Science 9

The difference between revolution and rotation page 405
What are star constellations, be able to identify some. You have a copy of a star map.
Be able to compare plant and stars
Be able to describe planets; what are their characteristics distances from the sun, relative size.
Big Bang theory
Questions 479- 1-3
Solar system scale
Planet summary, defining bolded words gas giants, terrestrial planets, inner planets, outer planets page 424-428, questions 1-4, 6,7
Other objects in the solar system: planetary moons, asteroid, meteors and meteorites, comets – notes from class.
Parts of the sun and their functions.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Science 9 Finish summarizing article from the space magazine.

Science 10 Page 198 1,2,5 plus sheet naming and balancing polyatomic compounds.

Science Fair topic, hypothesis and procedure is due to me by Friday for approval.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Math 9 - Sheet graphing squares
Quiz Thursday on scientifc notation and square roots
Unit test Monday February 25
Notebooks due Friday February 29 or before you leave for March break.

Science 9
Diagram of the sun - labeled and coloured
Unit test Tuesday February 26
Notebooks due Tuesday

Science 10
Today we learned about Polyatomic compounds. Page 198 #3 a-g balancing polyatomic compounds.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Grade 9 Math

Scientific notation - page 214-215 #1,2,3,9,10

All quizes were returned today and need to corrected

Sheet 5.2 still outstanding - Sam Zach, Alex S, Matt, Carter, Namen, Zach B

Grade 9 Science

We are working on model of the solar system in class.

Chas Kara, Tara, Zach M, Zach B, Brittany and Mitchell still need to hand in planet summaries and questions.

Grade 10 Scicence

Adopt an Element Assignment is Due Thursday. Students were given class time today to work on this.

An important notice that students are to be in school Monday the 18th the professional development day has been cancelled.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Grade 9 Math

Page 238 #2,3,4,6
Quiz Friday on exponent laws

Grade 9 Science
Students read pages 424-428 and have to define any bolded terms, then summarize the characteristics of each planet in thier own words.

Grade 10 Science watched a video on chemical reactions and phases of matter.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Grade 9 Math page 206-207 10, 15, 17-22

Math quiz on Friday on the power laws that we have learned so far.

Grade 9 and 10 Science

I am still looking for science fair selection sheets.

Grade 9 Science yesterday we started to talk about the Big Bang theory.

Grade 10 Science we completed a lab on chemical equations. Today, we will be learning about the periodic table.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Grade 9 Math

Finish Math Sheet - both sides

Grade 9 Science questions 1-3 page 405

Grade 10 Case Study on Household Hazardous project 176-178