What We Learned Today...January 9th

Having a few technical difficulties with our Blog this week.  Here's the post that was supposed to have been published on Friday!

ELA: This morning we officially kicked off our newest unit, which will focus on mysteries.  Today the we talked about key skills necessary to solving mysteries (Inferencing, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning) before working on an activity that tasked the students with making inferences based off of the picture book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg.  

Phys. Ed: The students headed to the gym with Mr. Fuchs and they worked on different basketball passes as well as dribbling.

Arts. Ed: Ms. Postma stopped by and they officially started their new Improv unit by learning some of the rules and participated in a fun activity.

Religion:  Over the period, students continued to work on their Epiphany postcard assignments.

Grade 8 Math:  We quickly reviewed the key concepts about nets from yesterday before the students began working on an assignment in their textbook.  (Full assignment posted below)

Science: During the last hour of the day we learned about the different parts of a compound microscope as well as guidelines to follow when using a microscope.  We also began to learn about cells by looking at the Cell Theory and some of the different parts of a cell.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Religion:
Josh's Story Questions are overdue

Math:
5.1 Due on Monday

Pg. 173

a) 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10

b) 1, 3, 4, 6-8, 10

c) 1, 3, 7, 9-13

Reminders:

-Girls Basketball practice January 13th after school.