What We Learned Today...December 3rd

Our newly decorated Religion Table for Advent

Since we had an advent liturgy at 11:00, we didn't have our usual Monday morning assembly today.  Instead we had the full half hour silent reading and taking AR tests.  Ms. Norris stopped by to invite some students who need to catch up on some reading to join her in the library at recesses to read.  After AR, the students read an excerpt from the novel Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood entitled "The Buried Marbles Mystery".  They then practiced their inferencing skills by getting into groups and identifying inferences they could make after reading.  Instead of Phys. Ed today, we had our wonderful Advent Liturgy in the Gym.  We were fortunate to have Deacon Joe Lang join and lead us in our Liturgy.  A special thank you to Ms. Weafer and Miss Lissel for putting together such an amazing liturgy!

During Religion the students were farmed out to different classrooms to use computers so they could work on their Hope Blog Response assignment.  Note: These response posts will be due on Thursday, December 6th.  In Health the students learned about how dieting works by going to http://home.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm and answering some questions from their handouts.  For the last hour of the day in Social we began practicing for our Mystery Skype next week.  The students practiced asking detailed closed questions (Yes or No answers) by trying to figure out what location I was thinking about.  Eventually, the students also picked a location and we went head to head trying to see who could figure out the others location first.  Unfortunately for myself, the students really caught on to the activity and beat me both times.  Well Done guys!
If you would like to see an example of a Mystery Skype, check out Mrs. Yollis's blog post from her classroom.  In addition, here is a video she made documenting her Grade 5's Mystery Skype experience:


The Mystery Skype Call from langwitches on Vimeo.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:


Math

Grade 8
4.3 Handout is Due Tuesday, December 4th


Grade 7

McCulloch: 3.4 due Tomorrow, December 4th

Weber:
ELA

Killers Tale Tale Handout Due Tomorrow, December 4th



Overdue Assignments:

1) Religion Poster Assignment

2) ELA Ghost Story Good Copy

3)Trade Questions
If you are missing the handout here is a link to the document online: http://docs.plea.org/pdf/TRADE.pdf
(Please skip to page 16 for the Opportunity Cost Handout)


Reminders:
- Please bring back the signed Report Card Envelopes