What We Learned Today...January 10th

We began the morning with our usual AR period before moving on to ELA.  In ELA, students continued to brainstorm their topics for their "rants" and some students have already moved on to the drafting stage.  They are coming along quite nicely and we have a real broad of range of topics for the rants!  At 10:45 the students had Phys. Ed with Ms. Norris and they continued to perform their dances in gym.  These dances are currently being edited into a video by some of the students and I will post it on the blog once it is complete.

After lunch we had Religion and discussed the question, "What's in a Name?".  Students were assigned questions about their own name and will have to do a little research to learn what their name means and why it was chosen for them.  At 1:15 Mr. Williams came in to teach Health for Mr. McCulloch because he was away today.  Students continued to work on their Diet Power Point assignment.  During the last hour of the day we officially began our Colonization Simulation.  The students each got into their groups and began the first stage of the unit.  The students split up into their respective groups (Plains, Algonquian and French) and were tasked with electing a leader for each group as well as an organizer.  They were also given a handout with information on their respective group and now need to use that information to create drawings of their group.

Due Dates & Homework:

French - Album Cover assignment is due Thursday, January 17th

Math:
Grade 8 -  Pg. 168 (Due Tomorrow)
a) 1, 2, 3 (a,b), 4 ,5 , 7a , 8
b) 1, 2, 3 (a,c), 4, 6, 7b, 8, 9a
c) 1, 2, 3 (a,b,c), 8-11

Handout 5.1 is also Due Tomorrow

Overdue Assignments:

1) Killers Tall Tale Reading Response (Handout)

2) The Hermits Secret Reading Response (Handout)

3) ELA Ghost Story Good Copy

4) Any of the 3 Advent Blog Posts

5) Social Trade Questions
If you are also missing the handout to help answer #5, 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:

-Girls Basketball A Team has a practice tomorrow after school from 3:30 - 4:45

- Mystery Skype is Tuesday January 22nd at 8:30 a.m.

- Grade 7's will be going Cross Country Skiing on January 29th.