What We Learned Today...October 1st

This morning we started our day out with the usual AR period from 9:08 to 9:38. * We are now up to 6.5 AR Points Per Student, which means we only have 3.5 Points to go! If everyone continues to read, we will most definitely be having our AR party next week. 

Instead of ELA this morning, we were very fortunate to have Mr. Meyers (who is the Catholic Education Services Coordinator for Regina Catholic Schools) stop by and teach us about how important we are in God's Eyes. Through numerous videos, a bingo game, and even a test..yes I said test, we learned a lot more about who we are as individuals and how there is truly no one else like us in the world. It was a great hour and we hope to have Mr. Meyers stop by again soon!

In Grade 8 Math we began our new unit on the Pythagorean Relationship by investigating Squares and Square Roots.  Some key concepts we learned today were: Perfect Squares, Non-Perfect Squares, Prime Numbers, Prime Factors and Prime Factorization.  We will continue this lesson next class on Thursday. 

After lunch we had French and continued to focus on basic introductory questions and responses.  *We will have a listening quiz this Friday, October 4th on the numbers 1-100. The quiz will be split up into two sections: 1) Listening to a number in French and writing it down (ex. What number is dix?) 2. Listening to a number in English and writing it in French. (ex. What is the number 40 in French?)  At 1:23 we had Religion and the students continued to work on their Faith Formation Blog Posts.  Don't forget these posts are due for class tomorrow. If you forgot how to get to the blog just click here.  During the last hour of the day the students had Social Studies with Mr. Csada and continued their "Wrist Band Equality Social Experiment".

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:

ELA:
Pandora's Box Assignment is due on Monday, October 7th


French:
Numbers Quiz on Friday, October 4th

Religion:

Faith Formation Blog Post is due on Wednesday, October 2nd.

Reminders:
-Picture Day is on Friday, October 4th.