What We Learned Today...February 27th

Working hard on their Science Fair Projects!

We kicked off our morning with the usual half hour period of AR before beginning ELA.  In ELA students continued to work through Section #3 of our Dystopian Book Club and worked on their Blog Posts and Comments as well as a brief Edmodo post.  *Don't forget that both Blog Post #3 and Comment #2 are due by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.  In Grade 8 Math we continued to learn using "Flipped Classroom" method.  Since students had watched the video lesson last night, they each took a short quiz about the lesson.  The purpose of the quiz is not to obtain marks, but rather to assess the students comprehension of the material covered in the lesson.  The program/app that we use for the quizzes is called "Socrative" and the students are able to take the quiz right on their device and once it is completed it automatically sends all the data straight to me via email.  For the duration of the class we worked on the textbook assignment as well as handout 7.3.

After lunch the students had Arts. Ed with Ms. Postma and they continued to paint their social issue posters. At 1: 38 we had Science and students began the research portion of their Science Fair Projects.  Don't forget, we have our school Science Fair on Thursday, March 27th so we've got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time!  During the last hour of the day Mr. Fuchs stopped by to take the students for Phys. Ed and they worked on different badminton skills.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:

Blog Post and Comment #3 due Friday

Be sure to post in Edmodo by Friday!

Science:

Research portion of Science Project needs to be completed by March 10th

Science Fair is on March 27th