What We Learned Today...April 17th

Today we were very fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to Miller Comprehensive High School for a Practical and Applied Arts Day.  The students spent their day learning about the arts and getting first hand experience in many of the areas of PAA.  Below you can see a picture timeline of our fantastic day today!

We started out the day with a tour led by the wonderful Ms. Wilton of Miller's Makerspace as well as their Wellness Fitness area.

Checking out the Makerspace!

Then we headed to the gym and participated in an awesome Yoga class led by Ms. Lewis.

After all our hard work at yoga we took a snack break before the students headed to the different classes they signed up for.  

Cooking

Cosmetology

Getting their nails done.

Nails after hair curling!

Photography

Once students finished up with their classes we had lunch and then headed to the Construction and Welding classes.

Welding:

Posing in their welding gear!

Trying out the amazing virtual welder!

Construction:

Learning how to make a Bird House

Starting to piece it together!

Drilling the birds door!

Then we boarded the bus and headed back to Deshaye and took a second to pose for a picture with our Bird Houses and Welding souvenirs!

We would like to say thank you again to the countless staff members and students at Miller Comprehensive High School for preparing such an amazing day for us.   We couldn't have asked for a better way to spend our day!  

Thank you!

What We Learned Today...April 16th

ELA: This morning we spent the class working through the remainder of our practice RAD tests.  We will go through these practice tests on Monday so students will be ready to take the real thing shortly after.

Phys. Ed: Mr. Fuchs led the students to the gym and the students participated in a fantastic game called Yo-Yo.

Arts. Ed: Ms. Postma stopped by for Arts. Ed and the students continued to work on their movie trailer assignments.

Mass at Christ the King: After lunch we headed outside for our walk to our Easter mass at Christ the King.  A special thank you to Ms. Hopfauf 'sand Ms. La's classrooms for preparing such a wonderful celebration!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

Keep up with your projects at home if you are falling behind.

Grade 8 Math: 

6.6 Handout is overdue

Unit 6 Exam is on Monday, April 20th

Religion:

Part Four and Service Hours are due Tomorrow, April 17th

Reminders:

- We are spending the day at Miller Comprehensive High School tomorrow for a Practical and Applied Arts day.  Remember to bring your gym shoes and wear something comfortable for our mini yoga class.

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

-We are still accepting donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.

What We Learned Today...April 15th

Mystery Skyping this afternoon!

ELA: This morning we dove right back into our practice RAD's by finishing up the Main Idea's and began looking at Making Inferences, Making Connections and Reading Comprehension Strategies.  We have really taken our time going through this practice RAD and I feel it has been time well spent as it was over seven months ago that the students wrote the first one and only a few weeks away before we write the final one.

Career Education: Students picked up where they left off on Monday by continuing to work on budgeting their time before working on a brief reflection.

Mystery Skype: We were fortunate today to have the opportunity to participate in another Mystery Skype with an unknown classroom.  The students worked incredibly well together and using their logical reasoning skills, were able to discover the classroom we were skyping against was from Lincoln, Main in the United States.

Grade 8 Math: Students wrote their Unit 6 Quizzes and then worked on their Unit Review and Practice Test.  We also took some time to go through their corrected quizzes at the end of class so they would be able to study from them.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

Keep up with your projects at home if you are falling behind.

Grade 8 Math: 

6.6 Handout is overdue

Unit 6 Exam is on Monday, April 20th

Religion:

Part Four and Service Hours are due on Friday, April 17th

Reminders:

-We are still accepting donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.

What We Learned Today...April 14th

ELA: We started out our morning with the practice RAD tests we were working on yesterday and finished up the section on text features and worked on identifying the main ideas and supporting details.

Genius Hour: Students had the period to research their projects as well as work on their first blog post update.

Science: After lunch we continued where we left off yesterday by learning about the four types of tissue in the human body.  We also began to look at Organ Systems and how they work together to make our bodies function.

Assembly/Social Studies: During the last hour of the day we headed to the gym for a special assembly to kick off our Cookie Dough drive.  Once we were done, we headed back to the classroom and students had the opportunity to spent a few minutes working on their Camp Planning for our Colonization Simulation.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

Keep up with your projects at home if you are falling behind.

Grade 8 Math: 

6.6 Handout is due Tomorrow, April 15th

Unit 6 Quiz is Tomorrow, April 15th

Unit 6 Exam is on Monday, April 20th

Religion:

Part Four and Service Hours are due on Friday, April 17th

Reminders:

-We are still accepting donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.

What We Learned Today...April 13th

The French interrogating a member of the Algonquian Tribe

Career Ed: This morning we started out the day with Career Education and the students began to learn about time management in their simulated futures.  They were tasked with examining the jobs they were assigned and then use this information to budget their time each week.  Some areas they had to budget their time in were: work, sleep, transportation, meals, shopping, errands etc.

ELA: With the end of the year approaching fast we took some time to prepare for our upcoming RAD by working together through a practice exam.  Over the period we reviewed what Text Features are and began to explore some of them in the article, "Secrets of the Spirit Bear".

Science: After lunch we had Science and quickly reviewed the layout of a cell as well as Diffusion and Osmosis.  We then began to learn about the four different types of Tissue in our bodies.

Grade 8 Math: Students continued to where they left off before the break by working on their 6.6 handouts before beginning their Unit Review and Practice Test.  We also took the some to go through the outlines for the Unit Quiz (on Wednesday) and the Unit Exam (On Monday).

Social Studies: During the last hour of the day students go into their Colonization Simulation groups and began planning what their camps will look like.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

Keep up with your projects at home if you are falling behind.

Grade 8 Math: 

6.6 Handout is due on Wednesday, April 15th

Unit 6 Quiz is on Wednesday, April 15th

Unit 6 Exam is on Monday, April 20th

Religion:

Part Four and Service Hours are due on Friday, April 17th

Reminders:

-We are still accepting donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.

What We Learned Today...April 2nd

Drinking a cup of "wine" (grape juice) during our Seder Meal

Religion: Today we were very fortunate to have Mr. Meyers join us this morning for a special Seder Meal prepared by Mr. Meyers. We were very fortunate to have him come visit today as he taught the students all about the Jewish Passover and how it connects to our faith as Catholics through the sharing of this meal. The Seder meal consisted of numerous parts: Grape Juice (Symbolize Wine), Parsley, Apple Chunks, Horseradish and Unleavened bread. If you would like to read more about a Seder Meal please click on the hyper-link above.

AR Party: After Arts. Ed as well as after our liturgy in the afternoon we celebrated reaching our AR goals by watching the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Liturgy: Shortly after lunch we headed down the gym for a special Holy Thursday Liturgy.  A big thank you to Ms. Olsen and Ms. Baliko-Phonsavatdy for preparing such a wonderful liturgy!

Here are some more pictures from our Seder meal this morning:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

If you have any spare time over the break you can work on your Genius Hour projects!

Grade 8 Math: 

We will have an exam after the break so it may be a good idea to do a little studying or extra practice before we come back.

Reminders:

-We are currently taking donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.

What We Learned Today...April 1st

ELA: We started out our day by watching the amazing rants the students filmed over the past few days.  I'm so impressed with how well everyone did with this assignment, I know if Rick Mercer saw them, he would be proud!
*I will be posting more rants on this blog throughout the next couple days!

Quidditch: Today we were supposed to have our AR movie party but we went a little longer with the rants then originally planned.  So instead of watching our movie today, we headed to the gym and quickly set up everything for Quidditch and played a few matches.

Career Education: Students used the career handouts from the jobs they were assigned last week to fill out a informational poster.  This poster will come in handy as we progress through the unit as it will serve as a quick reference to all the key information about their career.

Grade 8 Math: We started class by taking a brief quiz on Socrative before the students began working on their 6.6 textbook assignment. Unfortunately we will not have Math tomorrow so we will continue to finish up 6.6 right after the break.  Students may want to do a little bit of studying as well in their week off as we will be having our quiz and unit exam shortly after we get back.

Easter Baskets: During the last hour of the day we once again went to the Kindergarten room and worked with our afternoon little buddies on their Easter Baskets.  As I said on Monday, the students in our class continue to be wonderful role models.  This was not only evident with their little buddies, but in everything they do.  They are such an amazing group of students and I am so blessed to have the opportunity to teach them each day!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:

Rants need to be filmed and shared with Mr. Bresciani by Tomorrow

All copies of written rant are overdue.

Career Ed: 

Resumes are overdue, please share with Mr. Bresciani

Grade 8 Math: 

6.6 Video needs to be watched for tomorrow

6.5 Handout is due on Thursday

Pg.  227-228 - overdue
a) 5-7, 9, 11, 12
b) 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19
c) 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23

Reminders:

-We are currently taking donations for our Lenten Charity group, Chalice.  As a school system, we are sponsoring children in Haiti as well as the Philippines.  If you would like to donate please feel free to send any dollar amount with your child to school over the next two weeks.