What We Learned Today...January 14th

Mixing it up in Science!

This morning we started off our day with a half hour of silent reading from 9:08 to 9:38.  Once we finished up silent reading it was time for ELA and we continued working through our Dystopian unit.  We spent some time today investigating the meaning of the word "Dystopia" by looking at clips from the 1999 movie The Matrix. This movie is an excellent example of a Dystopian movie and it really helps to paint a picture of what a exactly a Dystopian Society looks like.  If you would like to view the lesson plan feel free to click here to follow along with what we are learning!

In Grade 8 Math we briefly reviewed nets of 3-D objects before looking at how to find the Surface Area of a rectangular prism.  We spent the majority of today's class looking at how to find the Surface Area and will continue this trend tomorrow when we look at Triangular Prisms.  *Remember 5.2 is due on Thursday. 
After lunch the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs before heading to the multi-purpose room for our Mixtures and Solutions lab in Science.  For this lab, the students mixe different substances together (salt, water, sugar, soap etc) and were tasked with recording the results.  This will directly lead into our next concept on pure substances and mixtures next week.  During the last hour of the day the students had Health with Ms. Zenuk and they took a career quiz online before beginning to work on a job poster assignment.

Here are some more pictures from our science lab today:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Arts. Ed
Hand in overdue assignments

Social Studies
Senate Scandal Assignments are now overdue

Math
Grade 8
5.2 is due Thursday
Pg. 173 - Due Wednesday
a)1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10
b) 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13
c) 1, 3, 7, 9-13

Reminders:

-Boys Basketball game tomorrow at St. Augustine.

-Grade 7s: Bring your outdoor winter clothes on January 29th as we are at White Butte all day Cross Country Skiing.