What We Learned Today...January 15th

 

Our new religion table

Today we started the morning out with our usual AR period before moving on to ELA.  AR Reminder: Students must have at least 10 AR points by the end of the week or they will be spending some time with Ms. Norris and Ms. Folk reading during recesses. In ELA the students worked on finishing up their rants and some students actually began recording them on the iPads.  Our goal is to have every ones rants recorded by the end of the week so we can turn them into our very own class rant podcast.

In Grade 8 Math we began to look at Surface Area and how to calculate it in relation to the areas of the faces of a 3D Object.  Since this is quite a big concept and can often confuse students, I will be spending two days teaching this before giving out an assignment. 

After lunch in Religion, the students continued to work on their "What's in a Name?" blog post assignment.  These posts are being written on our Kidblog site and if you would like to read them just have your child use their log in as the site is privacy protected.  In Health Mr. McCulloch had the students present their Diet Power Points to the class. During the last hour of the day I showed the students their marks present marks in each class and what assignments they still needed to get in.  Students were given this hour to catch up on this homework before I send home progress reports tomorrow.  (Some reports were sent home today with the grade 7's but was unable to print all due to technical difficulties with our printer)

Due Dates & Homework:

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

Math:

Grade 8 - Pg. 173 (Due Tomorrow)

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 Tomorrow 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.