What We Learned Today...February 10th

Working hard on their French assignments!

We kicked off our week this morning with a school wide assembly in the gym before heading back to class for a brief AR period.  In ELA the students got into their Dystopian Book Club groups and we spent some time looking at the "fakebook" assignment that the students will be working on in addition to their weekly blog posts.  Essentially, "fakebook" is a fake facebook page that students can create for one of the characters in their book.  They can update all the characters information and make regular status updates from the perspective of their character about key events that are happening in the novel. If you would like to see an excellent example, check out Ms. Stewart-Mitchell's Haymitch Abernathy fakebook page: http://www.classtools.net/fb/11/iUZ5Gh.

At 10:38 we had Math and the Grade 8's were given back their Unit 5 Exams from last week.  It was evident that the students studied hard for this exam as the class average was 80%. Well done everyone!  Today we also investigated how to find the volume of a right rectangular and triangular prism.


After lunch we had French and continued to work through our mini Winter Olympics unit.  Students worked on a short reading comprehension assignment before beginning a research assignment on the country of their choice.  During the last hour of the day Mr. Csada stopped by for Social Studies and the students continued to work on their assignments from last week.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:
7.1 is due on Friday, February 14th

French

All Olympic assignments are due on Friday, February, 14th

ELA

Blog Post #2 and Comment #1 is due on Friday, February, 14th

Section 2 reading is due Friday, February 14th

Health:

Career Assignments are now overdue

Reminders:
-Girls basketball game at Deshaye tomorrow

-Leboldus spend a day is on February 12th.