What We Learned Today...February 8th

Poor Roauf!

The Suspects

This morning we jumped right into ELA rather than AR because I really wanted the band students to be able to participate before they had to leave.  To coincide with our mystery unit, the students participated in an interactive Murder Mystery that saw five of their classmates as the main suspects in the murder of Mr. Bresciani.  For this activity the remaining students were split up into 5 groups and became the detectives for the investigation and had the opportunity to interview each suspect about the murder.   After all groups had finished their investigations they had to present to the class their conclusion on who the murderer was.  Then as a class we voted on who to send to jail for the murder of Mr. Bresciani.  Unfortunately for Roauf, he was sent to jail as an innocent man while Amber, the real murderer, got away clean! (Amber murdered Mr. Bresciani because she wanted to erase her Justin Bieber blog post from Mr. Bresciani's computer)
At 10:45 the students had Phys. Ed with Ms. Norris and worked on some basketball skills and played 21. 

After lunch the students headed to the Library to take their mid-year STAR test (Reading Level Testing) on the computers.  In Health Mr. McCulloch  began the Career Guidance unit and the students got the chance to plan the Spin Game. 
During the last hour of the day the students once again got into their Social Colonization Simulation groups and continued to work on their community tasks from yesterday's class. 
Here's some more pictures from our Murder Mystery investigation today:



Due Dates & Homework:

Math:
Grade 8
Handout 5.4 is overdue

Unit test in on Tuesday, February 12th

Grade 7:
Pg. 214 #5-14 is due on Monday

ELA
Tell Tale Heart Acrostic Poems are due on Monday

Overdue Assignments:

1) French Poster Assignment
2) "What's in a Name?" Blog Post
3) Social Group Drawings

Reminders:

- Grade 8 Math Test is on Tuesday, February 12th