What We Learned Today...October 15th

This morning we started out our week with a wonderful Thanksgiving liturgy in the gym.  A special thanks to Mrs. Goulet-Brown's class as well as  Mrs. Folk for all their hard work in putting the liturgy together.  Once the liturgy was over we headed back to class for a shortened ELA period.  During this time students were given back their Pandora's Box Projects and we discussed the importance of following rubrics when completing an assignment.  This discussion was very important because there were numerous students who did not follow the rubric and as a result received a less than desirable mark.  However, because this was our first big assignment I am going to use it as a teaching tool for future assignments. Students will be allowed to re-submit improved projects to me by Thursday for remarking as long as they get a parent signature on their original rubric.  *Students must have proof that they have shown their parents their original mark before I will accept improved assignments. 

Instead of Grade 8 Math today the students began to write their CAT 4 tests.  These tests are comprised of four areas that students will be tested on: Reading, Writing Conventions, Mathematics and Computation and Estimation.  We will continue writing these tests for the next two classes and should be finished by Friday. 

After lunch the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs and they participated in some circuit training as well as a game of tchoukball.  At 1:23 we had Science and had a brief discussion about Predators and Prey before learning the rules to a game we will be playing during our next class.  For the last hour of the day the students had Social Studies with Mr. Csada and they worked on questions from Pg. 161 (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7) from their booklet. 

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:

Math:
3.2 Handout due on Wednesday, October 16th


ELA:
Pandora's Box Project Rubrics need a parent signature. If students would like to redo their assignment they need to be handed in by Thursday, October 17th.


Religion:
Creation Story Assignments are due on Tuesday, October 22nd. 


Reminders:

CAT testing will continue for the rest of the week. 

Girls Volleyball Try-outs are on Wednesday, October 16th after school