What We Learned Today...May 7th

Today we started out the day by wishing good luck to all the students in our class who were competing in the Track Meet today as they boarded the buses for Douglas Park.  Those students who were not participating in the meet today had the first half hour of the day to silently read their AR books and work towards their goal of 10 points by the end of the Month.  After AR students were given the next hour to work on their Genius Hour projects as well as any other homework they may have had.

Grade 8 Math: Over the hour the students wrote their Unit 8 Exam on integers.  Tomorrow we will be moving on to Unit 9 which focuses on Linear Relationships as well as analyzing data and graphs.  Please be sure to watch the 9.1 video for tomorrow's class.

Science: During the last hour of the day officially kicked off our next Science unit which will focus on Heat and Temperature.  We learned about the Particle Theory of Matter and examined the affect heat can have on the volume of liquids and gasses through a few demo's.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

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

Grade 8 Math: 

Watch 9.1 video for tomorrow, May 8th

Career Ed: 

Reality Check Reflection and Bar Graph assignments are overdue

Trip Planning assignment is due tomorrow

Reminders:

-Track Quad Meet Thursday, May 7th 9:00 -11:55 at Douglas Park Track.  (Only select students attend)

-Grade 7 and 8 writing assessments will take place on May 11th to May 13th.  Students may want to do research over the weekend to help with their topic.