Mr. Bresciani's Blurbs: What We Learned Today...December 11th

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

What We Learned Today...December 11th

Workng hard on the Hot Chocolate in a Bag!

This morning we kicked off our day with a half hour of AR from 9:08 to 9:38. Instead of ELA today, we used the hour to work on our Christmas craft for the concert and cafe next Tuesday. The craft that our class was responsible for making was Hot Chocolate in a Bag and man did we ever do a good job! In only one hour we managed to make sixty two bags and we still have some left overs so we will be creating a few more tomorrow.

Our finished product!

Step One: Hot Chocolate!

To follow suit from this morning, the Grade 8's spent the next hour after recess baking cupcakes for our Christmas Craft sale. We will also be working with the cupcakes again soon as we will need to decorate them with colourful icing. Unfortunately for the Grade 7's, the Grade 8's were the only students baking today because this is part of their PAA (Practical and Applied Arts) mark. The students will be peer and self assessed on their participation from today's class and it will appear on the second term report card.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Postma and they examined different genres of music and began to work on a research assignment on two genres of their choice. At 1:38 we had Science and continued to learn about the different changes in ecosystems and how the terms Species, Population, Community and Succession relate to it. We also began to investiage the six different Biomes around the world and will continue to look at this tomorrow. During the last hour of the day the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs and they participated in everyones favourite cardio activity....the Beep Test!

Here are some more pictures from today: