What We Learned Today...April 23rd

The Plains asking the British if they will negotiate with them.

This morning we had our usual AR period from 9:00 to 9:30 before moving on to ELA.  AR update: We are now up to 5.8 AR Points Per Student with exactly one week left in the Month of April.  I think we can definitely meet our goal of 12 Points if all students continue to do their part and read!
In ELA the students continued to work on their Environmental Issue Murals.  Due to the fact that the students worked incredibly well today I have decided to extend the due date for this assignment to Friday.  So the Mural Assignment will no longer be due tomorrow (cue the applause!).

In Grade 8 Math we continued our Unit on Calculating Volume by learning how the find the Volume of a Right Triangular Prism.  Students seemed to catch on quite quickly to this concept so they began working on Handout 7.2 for the second half of class.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Norris and continued to work in groups on the Radio Play they have been assigned. At 1:15 Mr. Csada came by to teach Science and the students continued to look cells and also got pumped up for our Imax trip on Friday.
During the last hour of the day we had Social Studies and before they split up into their Colonization Simulation Groups, we had another Buffalo hunt here in the classroom.  Unfortunately times are getting even tougher for the groups as the Buffalo are becoming harder and harder to come by (due to over hunting) and only the British and the Plains were able to find one today.  We have now moved on to the part of our Simulation where the groups have began learning about Treaties and negotiations and groups spent the rest of class focusing on specific Treaties they could sign with the other groups.  I'm really excited for the next class as both the European and First Nations groups will be negotiating Treaties for the duration of our next class.

Due Dates & Homework:

Math:
Grade 8
7.1 is due on Tomorrow

French
Food Picture Dictionary due Friday, April 26th.

ELA
Environmental Mural is due Wednesday, April 24th (end of day) Now due Friday!

Overdue Assignments:
1) Quinn's story reflection
2) Cinquain Poem

Reminders:

-We are going to the Imax on Friday at 1:15