What We Learned Today...January 14th

We started out the week with a school wide assembly in the gym this morning.  Ms. Grad and some Deshaye helpers explained to us that Christmas was now officially over and to recognize this we replaced the white alter cloth with a green one.  After our brief celebration ended the grade 7's and 8's stuck around for a quick meeting with Ms. Grad and Ms. Norris to discuss BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) and what we as a school need to do to prepare for it next week.  *Reminder: Students need to have their "Acceptable User Policy" forms signed and returnted to the school as soon as possible. 
Once we got back to the classroom at 10:00, students were given ther rest of the ELA period to work on their rants.  In Grade 8 Math the students worked on Pg. 173 as well as handout 5.2 during the hour.  (Pg. 173 will be due on Wednesday, January 16th)

After lunch we had Religion and the students were given blog response questions about their names.  Students will have to research what their names mean as well as why they were given those names.  So parents, your child should be interviewing you tonight about why you chose their name for them as well as what their name means. 
At 1:15 the students had Science with Mr. Csada and are continuing to review their unit on Optics and Vision.  During the last hour of the day the students continued to work on their Social Justice Drawing Assignments for Ms. Norris in Arts. Ed.

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 5.2 will be due on Thursday

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 Game for Wednesday has been cancelled.  We will have a practice at Deshaye from 3:30-4:45 instead.

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

 

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