What We Learned Today...April 29th

Dedicated students reading The Lorax!

ELA: We started out the day with an AR period from 9:00 to 9:30 before moving on to a group discussion about the problems students found when watching "The Lorax".  Students identified various problems that occurred in the film such as "clear-cutting trees" or "pollution" and then were tasked with writing down the causes and consequence for each problem.  We also spent some time discussing the parallels between the issues in the movie/book and those in the real world and the consequences that can occur from the decisions we make.

Career Ed: Now that the students have finished up their monthly budgets, we talked a little bit about vacations and the different aspects that you need to keep in mind when planning a trip.  Students then began planning their own vacations, but had to keep a careful eye on the amount of money they wanted to spend because they needed to have enough money in their savings after a year to spend.  Students who didn't have enough money for a vacation needed to go back and recalculate their budget in order to order to ensure they could take some kind of trip.

Religion: After lunch we got right back into our assignment on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirt and the students spent the entire period working on this.

Grade 8 Math: Over the hour students worked on finishing up their 8.5 textbook assignment before beginning the handout.  We also spent a little bit of time going over the key concepts for 8.5 as our quiz is approaching quickly (Friday).

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

Start thinking about how you are going to present what you learned. (Final Product)

Grade 8 Math: 

8.4 handouts are overdue

Unit 8 Quiz on Friday

Career Ed: 

Reality Check Reflection and Bar Graph assignments are due tomorrow

Science:

Cells Unit Exam is on Friday, May 1st

If you would like to use our jeopardy game from yesterday's class to study from, please click the following link: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/cells2198

Grade 6 Science:

If you would like to study from the jeopardy game from today's class please click the following link:

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/grade-6-biodiversity

Reminders:

-Grade 7/8's will be at Miller Tomorrow Morning for a special Faith Presentation.

-Grade 8's please remember to email Ms. Zenuk your recreation photos. B.zenuk@rcsd.ca