What We Learned Today...November 13th

Getting set to play Quidditch!

ELA: We started out the day with the usual AR period from 9:00 to 9:30 before moving on to the "Mirror of Erised" Blog Post.  Students will get one more class period tomorrow to work on this post and then it will become homework.

Phys. Ed: Since we just finished Chapter 11, "Quidditch" in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, we decided it would be kind of cool to actually play it ourselves.  Last week we spent some time creating our own version of the game (without flying broomsticks of course!) and today we headed to the gym to test it out.  I was so impressed with how well it went, and that really shows you how great of a class we have.  It took a bit of time to tweak some of our rules but by the end we had our version of "Quidditch" down to a science! Be sure to check out the pictures and video below of our game today!

Arts. Ed: Ms. Postma took the students to the Arts. Ed room and they worked on a contour line drawing activity.

Grade 8 Math: Over the hour students worked on their first Unit Four assignment from their textbook that dealt with representing percents.

Science: To start our class we quickly reviewed the Law of Reflection before students work on an assignment that tasked them with identifying the normal and mirror on a diagram as well as measuring the angle of incidence and reflection.

Here's some more pictures and video from Quidditch today:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA: 

Harry Potter Chapter 11 and 12 Questions are due on Thursday, November 13th Friday, November 14th


Genius Hour:

Work on formulating your Essential Question

Reminders:

-No School on November 21st (TPD)

-Report Cards go home on November 26th

-Parent Teacher Interviews  - November 27th (Evening) and November 28th (Morning)