Today we kicked off the morning by starting into a new unit in Religion. For the foreseeable future we will be focusing our Religion classes around the Big Question, "Do I Belong?". We began to explore this through looking at the 7 Sacraments, with an emphasis on Baptism. Instead of ELA this morning, we switched and had Social Studies because we missed our last Social class because of the Teachers Retreat. We continued learning about Goods and Services in our own community through the use of Google Maps. Students were asked to search their address on Google Maps and explore their community and document the local businesses they find. They were then asked to identify the businesses as either a "Good" or "Service" and share their findings with the rest of the class.
After lunch we finished up our French Conversation Presentations, which really seem to highlight the amount of "Dramatic Flair" the members of our class possess. (I think we have quite a few future actors here!). For the last hour of the day, we had a very special month end assembly and handed out our Mother Teresa Awards for September. (Each month the staff at Deshaye will select three students in every class that demonstrate some the characteristics of Mother Teresa)
This month the characteristic we focused on was Welcoming.
I would like to congratulate the winners from our class for the month of September: Ian, Rafaela and Kevin!
Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:
ELA:
Research Paragraph needs to be completed by Monday so we can move on to script writing.
Overdue Assignments:
1) "The Nest" Handout Questions
2) Grade 8 Math 2.3 Handout
*Reminder:
*I apologize for publishing this post a day late! I had some technical difficulties and was unable to publish to the web yesterday.*
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