What We Learned Today...February 5th

Working hard on their Blog Posts!

 This morning we started off our day a little differently than usual.  As part of our PAA/Religion assignment, students are required to find a Motivational or Inspirational video and present it to the class on their assigned day.  They are also required to write a blog post on our kidblog site that explains the message within the video as well as why they chose the video.  Below I've posted the video that was presented today:

If you would like to view a list of all the videos as they are submitted, visit and bookmark our Motivational Monday Google Doc and check in each week for an updated list.  

The 3 c's and 1 Q!

During ELA the students once again got into their Dystopian Book Club groups and worked on their Blog Post Response #1.  Today we also took some time to discuss how to write a quality comment on our peers blog posts.  Remember the three C's and one Q: Compliment, Comment, Connect and Question! In Grade 8 Math we started Unit 7, which continues to deal with Surface Area but also Volume.   

After lunch the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs and they used all the basketball skills they learned over the past month and participated in a scrimmage against one another.  At 1:23 we had French and continued to look at the different Olympic Sports and the accompanying vocabulary.  We also learned how to conjugate the verb "faire" and "jouer" as well as write simple sentences using the verb "aimer".  During the last hour of the day Ms. Zenuk stopped by for Health and the students participated in a Mimio Vote activity about Body Image.  

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:
Unit Exam is on tomorrow, February 6th.

ELA

Section One of Dystopian Book and Blog Post #1 are due Friday, February 7th.

Arts. Ed:

Paragraph response for Garage Band activity is due tomorrow

Sketchbook assignments are due tomorrow

Reminders:
-The girls basketball game on Thursday has been cancelled.

-Leboldus spend a day is on February 10th.