What We Learned Today....November 21st

Trying on some Grey Cup rings today courtesy of the Tillman's 

We started out our morning with AR from 9:08 to 9:38 before heading to the gym for a special presentation.  We were very fortunate this morning to have former Saskatchewan Roughrider, Rob Bresciani come out to our school to talk with the students about the importance of hard work, never giving up and following your dreams.  He discussed his experiences growing up in Saskatchewan and the different obstacltes he had to overcome to ultimately make his dream of playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders come true.  It was an absolute pleasure to have him out today and I would like to thank him for stopping by on such short notice!

In Grade 8 Math the students spent the first half of class working on a reflection of their experiences in Math so far this year.  They were asked to focus on what they've found success with, what they need to improve and what they need to do to help them improve. During the second half of class we began to look at converting Fractions to Decimals and Percents as well as converting Decimals to Percents and Fractions.  We will continue to work on these concepts in Tuesday's class.  

After lunch the students were given two more report card reflections to work on that tasked them with writing about their progress in ELA so far this year as well as a general refelction on the year so far.  We will be examing these documents further next week in Parent-Teacher Interviews.  At 1:23 we had Religion and the students were given the period to finish up their Saint Research Assignments. Don't forget that these assignments are due on Monday.  During the last hour of the day the students had Social with Mr. Csada and they began presenting their Social Issues to the class.  

*Philippines Fundraiser Update:

Our unofficial total at the end of the day today has our school at the absolutely amazing total of $1850.  This is so incredible and I am so impressed with the generosity from everyone here at Deshaye.  Thank you so much to everyone who donated this week and a special thanks to our class for their excellent leadership and hard work in putting this fundraiser together.  Great work everyone!

I will announce the top three classes who will get to dress up a staff member next week once the offical numbers are in.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:

Religion:
Saint Research Assignment has been bumped back to Monday, November 25th

Math:
4.1 is due on Monday, November 25th.

Reminders:
-There is no school Tomorrow (TPD Day)

-Report Cards go out on November 26th

-Parent/Teacher interviews are on November 28 and 29.U