What We Learned Today...January 8th

Mr. Benko working with the students on Garage Band

*Note: Tomorrow's Grade 7 Cross  Country has been moved to the afternoon instead of the morning.

 

This morning we started out our day with AR silent reading from 9:08 to 9:38.  In ELA we continued our Ship Wrecked Role Play activity from yesterday and the students were tasked with making even more decisions about their fictional island.  Some of the decisions that were made today involved how to deal with conflict, creating laws, culture and war.  I was really impressed with the creativity that each group displayed today with their decision making and ideas! At 10:38 we had Math and the Grade 8 students continued to work on their assignment from Pg. 168 (assignment posted below) and some students got a head start on their 5.1 assignment. 

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Postma and were very lucky to have Mr. Benko, who is the technology coach for our system,  stop by to teach them how to use the program "Garage Band" on the macbooks.  After he finished up, the students actually began to work on creating a song of their own using Garage Band.  At 1:23 we had Science and continued to learn about the Particle Theory of Matter.  To help the students understand this concept, we tried an experiment that saw an egg being sucked into a bottle.  Here's a youtube video that displays what we attempted to do today.  During the last hour of the day the students had Phys. Ed with Mr. Fuchs.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Arts. Ed
Find your Social Issue song for Monday

Math
Grade 8
Pg. 168
a) 1, 2, 3a, 4, 5, 7, 8
b) 2, 3a, 4, 7b, 8, 9a
c) 3a, 4, 6, 8-11

Reminders:

-Boys Basketball Try-outs are on Thursday after school.

Grade 7s: Bring your outdoor winter clothes on Thursday, January 9th as you are going Cross Country Skiing.