What We Learned Today...October 23rd

Out next unit in ELA will focus on Traits Writing

Today we started out the morning with our usual half hour of AR time for the students to silent read.  At 9:30 we switched things up a bit and had French instead of your usual ELA time.  We played a "fun" game where the students had to use their knowledge of Regular "er" Verbs in order to conjugate 8 new verbs assigned by Mr. Bresciani.  This was used as an alternative to having the students take notes and provided them with more of a self-directed, interactive approach to writing notes. 
In Grade 8 Math we continued writing the CAT 4 exams.  Today we spent the hour on the reading portion of the test. 

 After lunch we had a bonus French class that all the students were absolutely estatic to have! During the half hour period students we given Unit 1 Reviews to work on.  Note: I would highly reccomend students work on these reviews and use them to study from.  They were made with the Unit Test in mind and truly reflect the subject matter from the unit test. 
For the last hour of the day we had ELA and began our unit on "Traits Writing" by examing the Writing Process. 

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:

Math
Grade 8

Math Quiz 3.1-3.3 -Friday, October 26

Grade 7
McCulloch:
Weber:
French

Unit Test-Monday, October 29th
Unit Review also due on Monday, October 29th

Overdue Assignments:

1) Grade 8 Math Handout 3.4

2) Talent Blog Post
3) Science Centre Blog Post

*Reminders:

-Grade 8 CAT Testing will continue tomorrow, Wednesday October 24th. (Please see student note)