What We Learned Today...January 11th

Snowmaggedon!

I'd like to start this post off by saying how incredibly dedicated the students in our class are to their education.  Most classes at Deshaye today were missing numerous students due to the weather.  However, the students from our class braved snowmageddon and ensured they were at school today and ready to learn! We were only missing 7 students, when some classes only had that many in class today...Amazing!

Our morning started off with a half hour of AR before moving on to ELA.  *One quick note about AR: I've been informed that any students who do not have at least 10 AR points by the end of January will have to meet with Ms. Norris and Ms. Folk in the Library during recesses until they have achieved the required points.  This shouldn't be a problem for most students in our class, but just in case make sure you read, read, read this weekend and get those points if you are below 10!  In ELA students continued to work on their rants.  They will have the entire class on Monday to finish writing them before we move on to editing and revising on Tuesday. 

In Grade 8 Math the students worked on their assignment from Pg. 173 (see complete assignment below) as well as handout 5.2 - Nets of Three-Dimensional Objects.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Norris and continued to work on their Social Justice Grid Drawing assignment.  Instead of French at 1:15 we had Social Studies instead and groups continued to work on their group handouts and drawing assignment.  During the last hour of the day the students once again had Ms. Norris and continued to perform their dances in the gym for Phys. Ed.

Reminder:

Personal Electronic Technology "Accept" Agreement forms were e-mailed out this week.  Parents, please sign these forms and send them to school with your child on Monday. 

Here are some pictures from today:

Playing Just Dance! during recess

Testing out our new Wii

Some more Just Dance!

The Algonquian group working on their handouts

Due Dates & Homework: 

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

Math:

Grade 8 - Pg. 173 (Due Tuesday)

a) 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10

b) 1,3,4, 6-8, 10, 13

c) 1, 3, 7, 9-13

Handout 5.1 is overdue

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 game at 3:45 at St. Timothy

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

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