What We Learned Today...June 11th

Mr. Meyer's visited us today!

This morning we started the day off with a brief AR period from 9:00 to 9:15.  I completely forgot to mention yesterday that our class was very successful with AR over the month of May.  Not only did they reach their goal of 12 AR Points Per Student, but they went above and beyond and ended up achieving 13 AR Points.  The students have definitely earned their AR Movie Party which we will have sometime next week. 

We were very fortunate this morning because Mr. Meyers visited once again and he gave another wonderful presentation.  This morning he spoke with the students about "Making a Difference" and talked about different people in the world who have truly modelled this.  One person in particular he spoke about was Sir Nicholas Winton.  Sir Nicholas was responsible for saving 600 Jewish children from the Nazis during World War 2 in Czechoslovakia. Mr. Meyers also explained that there is currently a petition for Sir Nicholas to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  If you would like to learn more about him or sign the petition you can check it out here.

In Grade 8 Math we moved on to Chapter 10, which focuses on Solving Linear Equations.  The primary focus of today's lesson was a review from Grade 7 on how to solve One Step Equations.  (ab=c) Students were given a brief assignment following this lesson and we will continue to work our way through Chapter 10 during tomorrows class. 

After lunch we had Religion and the students spent the half hour working on their religious mysteries powerpoint assignment.  Students will have another two classes to work on this assignment before we present next week.  At 1:15 the students had Science with Mr. Csada and they had the hour to work on a new science assignment on the laptops.  During the last hour of the day the Grade 7's had Arts.Ed with Ms. Norris while the Grade 8's had another farewell practice with Deacon Joe in the Library.

*Don't forget we have our Grade 8 Farewell tomorrow at 6:30 @ Christ the King Parish.

Due Dates & Homework:

Math:
9.3 is due on Thursday

Phys. Ed

Quiz tomorrow

Overdue Assignments:
1) Grade 8: 9.1 handout

2) North Korea Booklet

3) Solar Oven Paragraph

4) Colonization Duotangs

Reminders:

-Grade 8 Farewell June 12

-TPD on June 14th