What We Learned Today...December 5th

Enjoying their Science Lesson!

 

*Don't forget we have our Month End Assembly tomorrow.  Remember to bring clothes to dress Mr. Csada up in as part of our Philippines Fundraiser!


This morning we started out our day with AR before switching things up a little bit.  Usually we would have ELA directly following AR, however, today Mr. Csada came by to teach Social Studies instead.  During the hour the students worked on an assignment about the Senate Scandal as well as a paragraph question dealing with the Maasai culture.

In Grade 8 Math we continued our lesson from Tuesday on finding the "Percent of a Number" and built off of it to learn how to find the percent when it is in fraction form.  The students surprised me with how quickly they picked up this concept today as it is typically one of the concepts students seem to struggle with at first.  Once we finished the teacher directed portion of the lesson, the students began to work on their assignment from Pg. 142.  (The full assignment is posted below)


After lunch the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs and they did some circuit training before working on basic basketball skills.  At 1:23 we had Science and spent the first part of the class observing our "Decomposers in a Bag" experiment before learning about the Carbon Cycle.  We also spent a little bit of time discussing the issue of "idling" and the effects it has on our planet.  During the last hour of the day we had ELA and the students were given the entire hour to work on their "Super Sized Trading Card Assignment".  *Don't forget that this project is due next Wednesday, December 11th.

Here's some more pictures from today:

















Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:




 
Math:
Grade 8:
Pg. 142  - Due on December 9th
a) 5, 7, 8, 10, 12
b) 5, 8-13
c) 5, 8-16
ELA:

Super Sized Trading Card is due on Wednesday, December 11th:

Reminders:

-Christmas Concert is on December 17th.

- Last day of classes before Christmas Holidays is on December 20th.