What We Learned Today...January 16th

Some of the girls at Basketball practice!

This morning we started off with our usual AR period until 9:30 and then moved on to ELA.  We were fortunate enough to have access to the school iPads during ELA today so students began to record their rants on Garageband and edit them into short Podcasts.  We will be continuing to record the rants over the next two days and hopefully by next week, have them edited into one full class Podcast.  In Grade 8 Math we continued to learn about calculating Surface Area for 3D objects and began the textbook assignment for 5.3.  (See full assignment below).  If you are having some difficulty with calculating the Surface Area check out the video below that also helps to explain it.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Norris and continued to work on their Social Justice Grid Drawing Assignment.  Ms. Norris has indicated that this assignment will be due soon so I will post the due date once it has been assigned.  At 1:15 Mr. Williams (in for Mr. Csada today) came in for Science and worked with the students on reviewing for their Unit Test. 
During the last hour of the day we assigned roles for our upcoming Mystery Skype next week and the students had a few practice sessions against me.  The students got lucky in the first game and beat me, but they werent' as lucky the second round as I guessed they were the small island of Palau for the win.  *Reminder: We will be having our Mystery Skype next Tuesday at 8:30,  so please ensure you are here by 8:15 so we will have time to set up and prepare! 

Due Dates & Homework:

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

Math:

Pg. 179
A) 1-3, 5, 6, 8
B)1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
C) 1,3, 5, 10-16

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.