What We Learned Today...December 17th

Today we started out the morning with a brief AR period before heading down to the gym for our Advent Liturgy.  We were once again joined by Decon Joe Lang who lead us in our wonderful liturgy.  Ms. Schaan and the Pre-K's also did a wonderful job today planning the litirgy and leading us in prayer.  Once the liturgy concluded we came back to class and for the remainder of the class we discussed the idea of Joy and how it can be seen in the article "26 Moments That Restored Our Faith in Humanity". 
At 10:30 the students had Phys. Ed with Ms. Norris and they began their new dance unit before we break for Christmas.  I stopped by breifly to take a look at some of the dance skills from our classroom while they were learning The Macarena dance.  I've posted a few pictures of the students at the bottom of this post. 

 After lunch we continued to discuss Joy and the Third Week of Advent in Religion.  Students were assigned their new Advent Response question and it will be due on Friday. (Students will get class time to complete the assignment this week).  At 1:15 the students had Health with Mr. McCulloch and began to work on their new Diet presentation.  For this assignment students will research a specific Diet and then make a presentation to the class on it.  During the last hour of the day we worked on our Mini Minga Christmas Project.  This year our class prepared Hot Chocolate in a Bag to be sold at our Christmas Concert this year to raise money for our Mini Minga group.  The students did an absolutely wonderful jobn with this project as can be seen in the pictures below. 
Note: Tomorrow the Grade 8's will be doing some baking for this project.  If you are able to send a muffin tray or mixing bowl with your child it would be greatly appreciated.  We will be baking and decorating cupcakes tomorrow and Wednesday.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:


Math

Grade 8
Homework check on Monday. Make sure you have all textbook assignments completed.

Grade 7

McCulloch: pg 130 #12-27

Weber:

Overdue Assignments:

1) Killers Tall Tale Handout

2) ELA Ghost Story Good Copy

3) Advent "Peace" Blog Post

Reminders:

-Girls Basketball Tryouts are on Tuesday, December 18th

- Christmas Concert is Thursday, December 20th