What We Learned Today...January 22nd

We got started on Edmodo today!

This morning we started out our day with a half hour period of AR from 9:08 to 9:38.  In ELA we spent the first half of the period reading the 1948 short story, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.  This was a really intriuging story as it contains so many characteristics of dystopian societies as well as a shocking twist at the end! During the second half of the class the students worked in their groups to discuss the story and work through a couple of response questions about the story.  Both the story and the assignment can be found ont the ELA tab located at the top of the blog. 

Unfortunately, Grade 8 Math was cancelled today so we spent the hour setting up accounts on Edmodo. Edmodo is a safe online learning platform that allows students to connect and collaborate with other students in our classroom. On this website students are able to pose questions, participate in online class discussions, access and submit homework and monitor all upcoming events and due dates using our class calendar. We will be using this website a lot over the course of the year, especially during our Dystopian Unit.  Participation on this site will also be reflected in the students PAA marks for term 2.  *Parents, if you would like to follow along, you can create your own account as well.  However, you will need to use a unique parent access code that can be found on the left hand side of the your child's account page.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Postma and they continued to work on their Garage Band Social Justice assignments.  Students will only have two more classes to work on this assignment as it will be due on January 27th.  At 1:38 we had Science and continued to investigate Pure Substances and Mixtures as well as their subcategories.  During the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs and they participated in a few different basketball activities.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:
"The Matrix" Blog Post is due tomorrow

Religion:
Gifts of the Holy Spirit Reflection is due on Friday

Science:
Lab reflection questions due tomorrow
Math
Grade 8
5.3 is due tomorrow

Reminders:

-Girls basketball practice on Thursday 3:30 to 4:30 now 5:00

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