Grade 7 and 8 Art

Sight Unseen Art Show:

The 7 and 8's Art Show will be at Polo Park alongside other student work from Pembina Trails.

Art students are to hand in signed permission slips to display their art. 

All forms need to be in no later than Friday, May 25.

The art show will have it's opening on Monday, May 28 and the display will be up until Sunday, June 3. Please come check out their work.

February and March: 7 Social Studies

We continued in February to study "Global Quality of Life". 

Students looked at the United Nations definitions for what is human development, and how it is used to assess global quality of life. They also looked at the definition of poverty. Students had to then define global quality of life and determine important things that can be done to help improve global quality of life.

Students started an assignment (essay) on "Reasons for Emigration". This is due on Friday, March 9.
The essay should state three main reasons that people may choose to emigrate in today's world. They need to back up their factors with real examples from around the world. Their examples should be from current issues or news. Their essay should have a conclusion stating what they have learned about the role of seeking a better quality of life through emigration, or the relative influence of various factors on quality of life for immigrants.

Students are now learning about universal human rights.

• United Nations Universal Declaration of Human rights
• the Declaration of the Rights of the Child
• the principles of a charter (we worked on creating our own classroom charter of responsibilities)
• What is genocide? (definition)
• Amnesty International
• People who have played a part in promoting human rights

January: Social Studies

This January we finished looking at some population distribution and trends, more-developed and less-developed parts of the world and how it is an unequal world. We discussed different factors that affect our world population. 
We are now starting our new unit on quality of life. Today the class worked on lists of ideas of what things they feel are essential and important to a "good life" beginning with basic needs such as: food, shelter, water, health care, and education. 
They are now creating collaged posters with images to represent the basic needs that they feel everyone should have versus images of other things they feel would be important to them for a good life.

A homework assignment, that will be given in the next day or two, will be for students to make a list of 20 "unnecessary" items in their homes- things they could easily live without that do not fill basic needs (ex. toys, games, ...)

Gr. 7 Social Studies: November

Presentations on a natural wonder of the world has been completed by all of the students.

The students have learned about climate zones, and vegetation zones and are now taking the information about the physical world and applying it to a brochure assignment.

Travel Brochure Assignment:

Students have chosen a place in the world to focus on for this assignment. They are designing a travel brochure to promote a natural adventure expedition in a selected region of the world that will attract an outdoor enthusiast. The students are first researching and completing an information organizer which includes geographic details about their chosen region that they have discovered. Once they have gathered the information they are illustrating what they have learned by creating a brochure that includes a map, images, geographic information, time zones, interesting facts and bibliography. 

The class has been working on this during class time. They will have up to Dec.6 to work on it at school and then it will be homework if not completed after that class.

Quiz: A quiz on the physical world :continents, oceans, longitude, latitude, equator, prime meridian, international date line/ time zones, climate zone, and vegetation is on Nov. 29.

Gr. 7 Social Studies: October

October:

• This October the class worked on completing physical maps of the world. Students completed and handed in a completed map showing the continents, oceans, land forms, bodies of water, including a legend, and compass rose. They also had to identify locations using terms of directions and continent names. (There are a few students that need to finish their map assignment to hand in)
• Students also researched and presented a power point on one of the 7 Natural Wonders in the World. Presentations have all now been completed.
• We are now looking at vegetation, and climate zones in the world

Sept.20, 2017

Mrs. Van Nice

Gr.7 Social Studies

World Geography: So far in our class the students have

• had a discussion on the benefits of learning about the world, and geography
• through a group activity (scavenger hunt) they discovered an overview of many places around the world that products are produced or distributed, as well as the birthplaces of members of the class, as well as places people travelled over the summer. 

We are presently looking at different mapping elements:

• longitude and latitude
• time zones
• different map projections compared to a globe
• how to use an atlas vs. google earth
• world continents and oceans

Every few classes we try to discuss events we have heard in the news that might relate to our study of the world.

Gr. 7 Art

Creativity and art skills are a buzz in my room. The 7's have been introduced to the expectations and helpful clean-up/ organization responsibilities. They have designed their own portfolios to house their work in progress. (These stay in the art room).

Line and Shading:

Students have been introduced to shading pencils. They are starting their first drawing assignment using texture, line, shade, and creativity. 

Gr. 8 Art

The 8's are working on a portrait drawing with shading pencils. Students are working at looking at different proportions to help capture a similarity to the celebrity that they are drawing. They are also working on shading techniques. 

End of June

Have a GREAT SUMMER! Check out our Art Gallery. Work is from this year and further down are creations from other years. http://www.pembinatrails.ca/vanwalleghem/ART2.htm