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| Working out a location during Social Studies! |
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a great start to the new year! It's scary to think that we only have another 6 months of Grade 7/8 left, but we are definitely going to make the most of it as we have so many fun things planned for the rest of the year!
Assembly: To start out the day we had our first school wide assembly of the year in the gym where we welcomed numerous new students to the school (and our classroom!)
ELA: Over the shortened period, students were given back all assignments that were turned in before the break and we spent some time talking about key things that will help to improve future writing assignments. (Use of transition words, run-on sentences, word choice, etc.)
Arts. Ed: Ms. Postma stopped by and the students reviewed and practiced their interview skits that will be performed in their next class.
Movie: After Arts. Ed we took some time to finish the AR party movie we started before Christmas break.
Math: We spent the first part of class going through the Unit Four tests that were written before the break before starting our new unit on Surface Area.
Social Studies: During the last hour of the day we learned more about Mystery Skyping and what "Thick" and "Thin" questions are. Students then combined their knowledge of this along with their inferencing skills to try and figure out different "Mystery" locations on the world map.
Not sure what Mystery Skyping is? Below I've posted a brief handout explaining the awesome activity as well as a video:
Here's a few more pictures from today:
Upcoming Due Dates & Homework
Genius Hour:
Blog Post #1 needs to be submitted for class tomorrow.
Health:
Remember to email Mr. B the links to your Health e-poster.
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