What We Learned Today...September 21st

Assembly: We started the week out by heading to the gym for our usual Monday morning assembly. Today's assembly took a little longer than usual because we officially kicked off our SWPBS and AR competitions during the half hour.  Now when students earn tickets for AR or SWBPS they can enter their tickets for the chance to win a prize.

ELA: Once we got back from the assembly students were given the entire period to use their research from Friday to begin the drafting stage of their Persuasive Writing Assessments. *Since the assembly cut our period short, the students were given the half hour period after lunch to finish up their rough drafts. Tomorrow students will begin to work on their Good Copies and formally end the beginning of the year testing!!! 

Genius Hour: Today we had our first official Genius Hour Class as all students have now had their essential questions approved.  Over the period students began researching and learning about their projects/passions.  In two weeks time they will be tasked with writing a blog post updating the class on what they have learned so we also discussed the importance of recording research either digitally or in a Genius Hour duotang.

If you would like more information about how Genius Hour will run this year please see my Power Point below:

Math: Students spent the entire class writing their Unit 2 exam on Rates, Ratio's and Proportions.  Tomorrow we will officially begin Unit 3 on Squares and Square Roots so students will have to watch the 3.1 video tonight!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

Watch the 3.1 Video tonight

Arts. Ed:

Optical Illusions due tomorrow.

Reminders:

-Boys Football playoff game at St. Augustine on Wednesday at 4:00

-Picture day is on September 30th