What We Learned Today...February 3rd

Working on the Algonquian group identity!

AR/Social: Following our usual AR period this morning, we changed things up a bit today and had a Social Studies period instead of ELA.  In Social, the students got into their newly formed groups (Plains, Algonquian and French) for the Colonization Simulation and spent the hour learning about their group identities (what they wore, where they lived, what they ate etc.). We will be continuing this next class as students are now tasked with drawing themselves according to what they've learned about their group identity.

ELA: Now that we've wrapped up our Oak Island paragraphs, we will be spending the next few classes practicing for our upcoming Mystery Skype.  Over the period today, students had a chance to get comfortable in the roles they will be in for our actual skype through a practice skype with me.   This was acheived by me leaving the room and video skyping with the rest of class from another room in the school.

Religion: Students continued to work on their Prayer Writing assignment for the period.

Grade 8 Math: After a few days of review, the students finally wrote their Unit 5 Exam.  Tomorrow we will be moving on to Unit 7, Volume.  Students be sure to watch the 7.1 video tonight!

Science:  During the last hour of the day, students were given the period to finish up their Science Centre blog posts from last week.  If students finished up their posts early, they began to work on their final Genius Hour Post.

Here's a few more pictures from today:




Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Science:

Science Centre Blog post is due on February 5th

ELA:

Oak Island Paragraph is due on Thursday February 5th

Reminders:

-Girls Basketball practice Wednesday @ 3:30 and our final game is Thursday, 3:30 at Deshaye.

-Grade 7's, please return your cross country skiing permission slip.