What We Learned Today...October 27th

Posing for a photo during Genius Hour

ELA: Once we finished up AR, the students began working on their Character Fakebook assignment for Chapter Six.

Genius Hour: Students were given the entire period to complete their first blog post update and continue their research.

Religion: After lunch the students were given one final period to work on their Creation Story assignments.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

- Watch 3.5 by Monday, 

Genius Hour:

-Blog Post update is due Tomorrow

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Halloween parade and senior dance is on Friday during the afternoon.

-No School on Monday, October 31st (Staff Retreat)

-Girls Volleyball Players: Please remember to bring $15 for your volleyball shirts.

-Girls Volleyball game on Tuesday at Mother Teresa Middle School

What We Learned Today...October 26th

Working on a Creation Story Rap!

ELA: We started out the day by reading the Chapter Six and Seven of Harry Potter before the students were given a short assignment.


Genius Hour/Homework Period: With half the class away at Full Band, the remaining students were given the period to work their Genius Hour projects or any homework they had.

Religion: After lunch the students were given the entire period to work on their Creation Story projects.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

- Watch 3.5 by Thursday, October 27th Postponed to Friday

Genius Hour:

-Blog Post update is due on Friday, October 28th

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Halloween parade and senior dance is on Friday during the afternoon.

-No School on Monday, October 31st (Staff Retreat)

-Girls Volleyball Players: Please remember to bring $15 for your volleyball shirts.

What We Learned Today...October 25th

Hard at work on their Math Quiz

ELA: This  morning we started out our day with the usual AR period before reading through Chapter Six of Harry Potter together.  We also took some time to taste test some of the every flavour beans from the novel!

Health: We continued our Body Image lesson by discussing things that influence our self-esteem/body image and investigating the truth behind the images we see in the media though "photoshopping".

Religion: After lunch the students completed a short survey for Mr. Garinger before they continued working on the Creation Story project.

Math: Students were given the entire period to work on their Unit 3 Quiz.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

- Watch 3.5 by Thursday, October 27th

-Pg. 104 is due on Wednesday 

a) 1-4, 5, 6, 9, 10
b) 3, 4, 5, 6, 9-14
c) 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13-16

ELA:
-Diagon Alley Advertisements are overdue

Genius Hour:
-Blog Post update is due on Friday, October 28th

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Halloween parade and senior dance is on Friday during the afternoon.

-No School on Monday, October 31st (Staff Retreat)

What We Learned Today...October 24th

ELA: Once the students got back from our Monday morning assembly they were given the rest of the period to work on their Diagon Alley assignments.  These assignments are due tomorrow so they will need to be completed for homework if they were not finished in class today.

Religion: Students were given the entire class to work on their Creation Story projects.

Science: After lunch we learned about the difference between Concave and Convex Mirrors as well as how Refraction affects the speed of light.

Math: Students spent the period working on the textbook assignment from Pg. 104.  (Full assignment listed below)

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

 -Unit 3 Quiz is tomorrow.

- Watch 3.5 by Thursday, October 27th

-Pg. 104 is due on Wednesday 

a) 1-4, 5, 6, 9, 10
b) 3, 4, 5, 6, 9-14
c) 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13-16

ELA:
-Diagon Alley Advertisements are due on Tomorrow, October 25th

Genius Hour:
-Blog Post update is due on Friday, October 28th

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Halloween parade and senior dance is on Friday during the afternoon.

-No School on Monday, October 31st (Staff Retreat)

What We Learned Today...October 20th

Team Building at the Grade 8 Conference yesterday!

ELA: We started out the day with AR before moving on to ELA, where students continued to work on their Diagon Alley assignments.

Genius Hour: Students were given the entire period to work up the blog post updates that we began last week.  These posts are due next Friday so if they were not finished today, they will need to be finished at home or during spare time.

Religion: After lunch the students continued working on their Creation Story projects.

Math: Students were given the entire period to finish up their textbook assignments from yesterday as well as the 3.3 handout.

More pictures from yesterday:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

 -3.2 is overdue

-Pg. 99 is due on Friday
a) 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11
b) 5-8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16
c) 6-8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21

ELA:
-Chapter 3+4 Questions are overdue

-Diagon Alley Advertisements are due on Tuesday, October 25th

Genius Hour:
-Blog Post update is due on Friday, October 28th

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Students vs Teachers Football Game tomorrow.  Remember to bring your gear if you played on the team this year!

What We Learned Today...October 18th

ELA: This morning we started out our with the usual AR period before students continued working on their Diagon Alley assignments.  After some discussion, we decided that this assignment will be due on Tuesday, October 24th, which means the students will have three more class periods to work on it.

Health: We were joined by Ms. Klippenstein and Ms. Dodds, who gave a guest presentation on abuse as a follow up for our presentation on Residential Schools a few weeks ago.


Religion: After lunch, the students continued working on their Creation Story Assignments.  A due date of Friday, October 28th has been

Math: Students took a brief Socrative quiz before beginning the textbook assignment from Pg. 99 of their textbooks.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

 -3.2 is due on Wednesday

-Pg. 99 is due on Friday
a) 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11
b) 5-8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16
c) 6-8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21

ELA:
-Chapter 3+4 Questions are due this Thursday.

-Diagon Alley Advertisements are due on Tuesday, October 25th

Genius Hour:
-Blog Post update is due on Friday, October 28th

Religion:

-Creation Story Project is due on Friday, October 28th

Reminders:

-Positive Lifestyles Conference is tomorrow at The Queensbury Centre.  Since it will be an extended day, students won't arrive back to Deshaye until 5:00.  Parents, please ensure you are here to pick up your child at that time.

-Remember to wear gym clothes tomorrow and bring a water bottle with you.  Lunch is provided tomorrow, so you won't need to bring one.

What We Learned Today...October 17th

Measuring their angles for the mirror challenge!

ELA: This morning we took some time to go through the Chapter 1+2 Guiding questions that the students completed last week.  As we went through the assignments we talked about a few common mistakes students were making in their writing and how to improve them for future writing assignments.

Science: It's been a while since we had our last Science class, so we took some time to review the Law of Reflection before the students began their second Mirror Challenge.


Math: Students were given the entire period to work on their 3.2 assignments.  If students finished early they were given the rest of the period to work on any other homework they had.

Religion: During the last hour of the day, the students began working on their Creation Story Assignments.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: -3.2 is due on Wednesday

-Watch 3.3 video for tomorrow

ELA:
-Chapter 3+4 Questions are due on Thursday.

Genius Hour:
-Make sure you are keeping up with your research.

Reminders:

-Positive Lifestyles Conference is on October 19th at The Queensbury Centre.  Since it will be an extended day, students won't arrive back to Deshaye until 5:00.  Parents, please ensure you are here to pick up your child at that time.

What We Learned Today...October 14th

Hard at work on their Diagon Alley assignment

ELA: Today the students were tasked by the fictional Cornelius Fudge (The Minister of Magic in Harry Potter) to create a persuasive advertisement for Diagon Alley to help boost business.  This new assignment will help improve the students persuasive writing skills and will last all of next week.

Health: We officially kicked off our unit on Body Image by talking about the differences between positive and negative body image.  Next week we will continue our lesson by learning about the different pressures that young people face with body image.

Religion: After lunch we read the creation story from the Bible and the students were given a creative assignment that tasks them with retelling the creation story in whatever medium they would like.

Math: Students were given the entire period to work on the 3.2 handout or write the Unit 2 retest.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-3.1 is overdue

-Pg. 91 - Is now due on Monday

ELA:

-Harry Potter Blog Post is overdue

Genius Hour:

-Make sure you are keeping up with your research.

Reminders:

-Positive Lifestyles Conference is on October 19th at The Queensbury Centre.  Since it will be an extended day, students won't arrive back to Deshaye until 5:00.  Parents, please ensure you are here to pick up your child at that time.

What We Learned Today...October 13th

ELA: This morning we started our day out with the usual AR period before we dove back into our Harry Potter novel.  Today we read all of Chapter 5 together, which took the majority of the period as it is quite a lengthy chapter.  Next class the students will be starting a mini project on the key events that occurred in "Diagon Alley".

Genius Hour: Now that we've been researching our projects for just under a month, students were tasked with writing a blog post to update the class on what they have learned so far.  The questions they were asked to respond to include:

1. What is your project and why did you choose it?

2. What have you learned so far?

3. What has gone well? What has been challenging? How can you overcome these challenges?

4. How have you learned about your topic? (What sources have you used to get your information)

Thanksgiving Mass: After lunch we started our trek to Christ the King for our Thanksgiving Mass.  A special thanks to Mrs. Goulet-Brown and Mrs. Kalynchuk's classes for doing such a wonderful job planning and participating in our mass today.

Pep Rally: During the last hour of the day we headed down to gym for a special pep rally to send our Boys Football Team off to the championship in style. Good Luck Boys!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-3.1 is overdue

-Pg. 91 - Is due on Friday.

a) 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
b) 6,-8, 10, 12-17
c) 7, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18-21

ELA:

-Harry Potter Blog Post #1 is due tomorrow

Genius Hour:

-Make sure you are keeping up with your research.

Reminders:

-Positive Lifestyles Conference is on October 19th at The Queensbury Centre.  Since it will be an extended day, students won't arrive back to Deshaye until 5:00.  Parents, please ensure you are here to pick up your child at that time.

What We Learned Today...October 12th

ELA: We started out our day by reading Chapter 4 of Harry Potter before the students began working on the guiding questions for this section of the novel.

Homework Period: With many students away at full band, the remaining students were given the period to work on any homework they had or their Genius Hour projects.

Extra ELA: Students were given an extra half hour period to work on their guiding questions from this morning.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-3.1 is due on Thursday

-Pg. 91 - Is due on Friday.

a) 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
b) 6,-8, 10, 12-17
c) 7, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18-21

ELA:

-Harry Potter Blog Post #1 is due on Friday

Genius Hour:

-Progress Updates will be this week, make sure you have been keeping up with your research.

AR:

-First AR book needs to be finished by Thursday, October 13th

Reminders:

-Thanksgiving Mass is Thursday at 1:00 @ Christ the King

What We Learned Today...October 11th

ELA: Once the students got back from the assembly we spent the rest of the hour reading Chapter 3 and 4 of our novel together.

Health: Our "All About Me" Power Points came to a close this morning as we finished up the final presentations for this project.

Religion: After lunch we took some time to review the short creation assignment from last week before learning about a a few different First Nations creation stories.

Math: Students began the period with a short quiz on the 3.2 lesson, before starting the textbook assignment from Pg. 91.  (Full assignment listed below)

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-3.1 is due on Thursday

-Pg. 91 - Is due on Friday.

a) 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
b) 6,-8, 10, 12-17
c) 7, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18-21

ELA:

-Harry Potter Blog Post #1 is due on Friday

Genius Hour:

-Progress Updates will be this week, make sure you have been keeping up with your research.

AR:

-First AR book needs to be finished by Thursday, October 13th

Reminders:

-Thanksgiving Mass is Thursday at 1:00 @ Christ the King

What We Learned Today...October 4th

Working on their Bible verse assignment during Religion.

ELA: This morning we started out our day with the usual AR period until 9:30.  Since students have had their library books for over three weeks, I have asked them to have their first book completed by next Thursday.  (For some students, this may mean that they need to do a little reading over the weekend) Once we finished up AR the students spent the rest of the hour working on their first blog post assignment.

Health: We continued going through the "All About Me" presentations.  We only have a few more to go, so next week we will be able to kick off our unit on Body Image.

Religion: After lunch we kicked off our mini unit on the Creation Story by playing some Bible trivia and working on a short Bible verse assignment.

Math: Students were given the entire period to work on their textbook assignment from Pg. 85.  (Full assignment is listed below)

Science: During the last hour of the day we reviewed the Law of Reflection before working on a short assignment that tasked the students with measuring the Angle of Incidence and the Angle of Reflection.

*Unfortunately I will be away all day tomorrow in meetings so there will be no blog post.  I hope everyone has a great weekend and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-Watch the 3.2 video for Monday

-Unit Two Retest is on Tuesday, October 11th

- Pg. 85

a) 4,5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17
b) 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 18, 23, 24
c) 6, 19, 21, 22, 24 -27

ELA:

-Harry Potter Chapter Questions are overdue.

Genius Hour:

-Progress Updates will be next week, make sure you have been keeping up with your research.

AR:

-First AR book needs to be finished by next Thursday, October 13th

Reminders:

-There is no school this Thursday and Friday due to teacher institute and TPD.

What We Learned Today...October 3rd

Practicing their Genius Hour dance

ELA: Once we got settled after the morning assembly, we spent the period going over the new writing assignments that the students will be working on throughout the rest of the unit. For these assignments, students will be tasked with writing responses to questions or prompts in the form of a blog/vlog post.  We will be using the Kidblog website as the main source for our blogging this year.  . If you would like to check it out our future posts feel free to visit: https://kidblog.org/class/the-bresciani-bunch-2016

Genius Hour: Students were given the entire period to research their Genius Hour topic and were reminded that they will be writing their first progress update next week.

Math: Today we spent the first half of class going through the Unit Two Exam from last week before moving on to the 3.1 textbook assignment.  Unfortunately, some students exam results weren't what they were hoping for due to some simple mistakes.  As a result, I am willing to give a retest to any students wishing to do so.  Once the retests are marked, I will average both exams to create the final test score.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math: 

-Unit Two Retest is on Tuesday, October 11th

ELA:

-Harry Potter Chapter Questions are overdue.

Genius Hour:

-Progress Updates will be next week, make sure you have been keeping up with your research.

Reminders:

-There is no school this Thursday and Friday due to teacher institute and TPD.