What We Learned Today...January 7th

Working on the Ship-Wrecked Role Play

This morning we kicked off our day with a half hour of silent reading during AR.  At 9:38 we moved on to ELA and officially started our Dystopian Unit.  For our introductory lesson, students were split up into 5 groups and took part in a role-play activity where they found themselves stranded on a desert island in the year 3000.  Students had to work together in their groups to make decisions on issues such as: leadership, division of labour, property and currency.  We only got half way through the activity today so we will spend some time finishing it up tomorrow. 

In Grade 8 Math we began unit 5 by looking at views of three-dimensional objects.  Students learned about the different parts of 3D objects (face, edge and vertex) as well how to determine the top, front and side views when looking at a 3D object.

Emptying a pop can for our experiment!

After lunch the students headed to the gym with Mr. Fuchs for Phys. Ed. At 1:23 we had Science and  began our new unit on Mixtures and Solutions.  Students learned about the "Particle Theory of Matter" and observed two demonstrations that dealt with converting a liquid to a solid in a matter of seconds as well as imploding a can using the change of state from a liquid to a gas.  I'm really excited to be teaching this unit as there as so many fun and interesting experiments and demo's coming up over the next few months!  During the last hour of the day the students had Health with Ms. Zwingli Zenuk as she is now back from her honeymoon. Congratulations Mrs. Zenuk!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Arts. Ed
Find your Social Issue song for Monday

 

Reminders:

-Girls Basketball Try-outs are tomorrow from 3:30 - 5:00 and Boys Basketball Try-outs are on Thursday after school.

Grade 7s: Bring your outdoor winter clothes on Thursday, January 9th as you are going Cross Country Skiing.