What We Learned Today...January 18th

Taking a second to pose during Phys. Ed

We started the morning with our usual AR period from 9:00 to 9:30 before moving on to ELA.  During ELA the students continued to take turns recording their rants on the iPads while the rest of the class watched the end of The Goonies.  Next week we will continue to record these rants and hopefully have them edited into a class Podcast by Thursday.
In Grade 8 Math the students continued to work on their Surface Area assignment from pg. 176.  (Entire assignment is listed below)

After Lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Norris and continued to work on their Social Justice Grid assignment.  Ms. Norris has indicated that certain students who are a little behind in this assignment should be taking it home to work on for homework as it will be due soon.  At 1:15 we had Social Studies instead French today and the students got into their Colonization groups and spent the hour working on their group information and drawing handouts.  These drawings will be due on Tuesday, January 22nd.  Any students who have not finished them by then will be unable to participate with the rest of the their group until they are completed. 
For the last hour of the day the students had Ms. Norris again for Phys. Ed and they participated in various basketball drills. 

*Note: Our Mystery Skype session is coming up quick and I just wanted to remind everyone that the students will need to be at the school at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, January 22nd.  I'm very excited for this as I'm sure the students are as well!

Some Pictures from Phys. Ed today:

Due Dates & Homework:

Religion: "What's in a Name?" Blog Post is due Monday, January 21st

Math:

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

 

Science: Optics and Vision Unit test is on January 29th (Part 1) and January 31st (Part 2)

 

Overdue Assignments:

1) French Poster Assignment
2) Killers Tall Tale Reading Response (Handout)
3) The Hermits Secret Reading Response (Handout)
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:

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

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