HEALTH 7

Today will use some internet resources to calculate how many calories our body needs, and how many we are getting from common foods.

1) Follow the following link to calculate you body's need for fuel (i.e. how many calories you should be eating each day)... Calorie Calculator
Save this information in a Word file called "My Healthy Eating Plan."

2) Next, use the same site to calculate the amount of calories in your average day's food intake. Click on "Calories in Food" on the left-hand menu. You can input the foods you ate yesterday, or just your most common breakfast, lunch and dinner meals. Don't forget to include any snacks! Save this information in "My Healthy Eating Plan."

3) Next, use the same site to calulate how many calories you burn doing exercises. Click on "Calories Burned" at the top menu, and input data related to how many minutes you are active, and then find the calories burned below. Many activities are there, but not all, so come as close as you can, but don't sweat it too much. Save this information in "My Healthy Eating Plan."

4) Your last step will be to calculate how many calories you are taking in on average, minus the number you burn during your activities (count as if these were every second day). So add your daily intake with deductions (burned calories) to your daily intake without deductions and divide by two. Then subtract this number from your body's needs number (from number 1 above). Save this information in "My Healthy Eating Plan."

5) If you are done, see if there are places where your Healthy Eating Plan can be improved (examples might be: more or more frequent exercise, less snacks, more high nutrient and less high-calorie foods, etc.). Save this information in "My Healthy Eating Plan."

Parent Teacher Interviews

Friday March 19th from 8:30 we will be seeing parents for interviews. I hope many people are able to be there, but the schedule is, admittedly, less than ideal. We could not schedule an evening since so many staff are away this week on training. That said, we hope if you cannot make it on Friday that you will arrange to see teachers at your convenience next week - we try to make ourselves available.

That said, Juniors (6-8) have report cards, but Seniors (9-12) do not. For my classes, all students are given Markbooks at the end of the onth, so if you haven't gotten one, it may be lost in a binder or a locker. Ask me and I can email them, if that is more convenient.

For Senior reports, I do not mark penalties on late work, but I do need to report these grades all the same. When we come to a report card time, then, any work not received becomes a '0' which can be adjusted if I get the assignment later. Please encourage your young scholars to keep up with classroom assignments! It becomes difficult to see the light when assignments have piled up to a large degree.

For Junior reports, I will not allow students to leave work undone - they will stay in my classroom and complete their work even if it means missing gym class. The general rule that applies is: do your work and you will do fine. If you put off assignments,it will mean lost time in other (likely more fun) classes.

Please do come see me or contact the school for alternate interview times.

Mar. 1st

ELA20 - We'll be working on Narrative Paragraphs related to our visit to Gillen this week. Get creative with those childhood memories!

HEA7 - We will review and then our Unit 3 test. If you can do the review questions, you will do great on the test.

SCI6 - The Man in Space video will continue and hopefully we'll get some planetary data down from the NASA program.

ELA20

All Descriptive Paragraphs should be in, and we're nearly done questions on "First day in School." Remember to use MLA style citations for one quote per answer. For more information on MLA style follow this link:

MLA citations

Feb. 3rd ELA

We are done in-class work on the descriptive paragraph. These will be ready for Peer Conferences first thing tomorrow, and Final Drafts should be done by the end of the day Thursday. They can be hand-written.

Feb. 3 - New Semester for High School

We're just starting ELA20 for the second semester. We'll do some work around the Writing Process, and do a little introductory assignment, but nothing too heavy to start. Since our themes deal with recollections of childhood, we'll also plan a day to visit Gillen to jump start some memories from our youth.

We will start USSR (Un-Structured Silent Reading) in class today for the first 10-15 minutes. Bring a book or magazine with you.

SCI6a - We will finish our MovieMaker projects today and grade them in class. If we want to post them to YouTube, we can do that as well.

HEA7 - We're continuing with our 3rd Unit. Be sure your notes are up to date and with you. If you have no materials for class, I'll be sending you back to your lockers to get them - no exceptions.

Just 7 more school days until the break!

Science 6A: Snowed In!

I may not make it in to school today as a result of snow, but after the projects are done, check out the interactive games at this website. Remember to read a litle so you learn about these activities - don't just play!

BBC Science

D.Copp