What We Learned Today...April 12th

Taking a break from their Power Point Assignment.

ELA: We started out our morning with the usual AR period before the students continued brainstorming and researching facts for their Dystopian Persuasive Essays.

Genius Hour: Students spent the entire period working on their blog posts that update their progress so far in this project.

Buddies: After lunch we were joined by Ms. Postma/Bachiu's Grade 6 students who needed some guidance on their power point presentations.  The Grade 8's were fantastic role models over the hour and I know the Grade 6's appreciated all their help today.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:

-Dystopian Persuasive Essay is due on Tuesday, April 19th.

Science:

-Fish Dissection Lab Report is due on April 18th

Religion:

-Resurrection station prayer and image are due on April 18th

Reminders:

-*Students, please remember email me your photo re-creation assignments for your Grade 8 Farewell. These are due this Friday,

What We Learned Today...April 11th

Taking a second to pose at the Theatre!

ELA:  Now that we've finished up our essay structure review, students began to write their own persuasive essays based on the following prompt: "Some critics believe that Dystopian books rely too much on violence and as a result are warping the minds of young adults. They believe that these books should be taken out of schools. Do you agree? Do you disagree?

The Testing Crew

Dystopian Movie:  After recess we boarded the bus and headed straight to the Galaxy Cinemas to watch Allegiant. During this time we also got the opportunity to meet with the other students and teachers who have been participating in the same Dystopian Unit as us.  It was so cool to finally meet the these people face to face, as before today they were only a name on a computer screen.

As always, I was impressed with how well the students at Deshaye represented themselves and their school today. Well done everyone!

The whole Deshaye crew!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:

-Summer Holiday Persuasive Map is due Tomorrow.

Math:

-Watch the 9.1 Video for Tomorrow

Science:

-Fish Dissection Lab Report is due on April 18th

Social:

-Exit Slip is due tomorrow

Reminders:

-*Students, please remember email me your photo re-creation assignments for your Grade 8 Farewell. These are due this Friday,

What We Learned Today...April 8th

Our new seating arrangement!

ELA: This morning we continued our mini persuasive essay unit by reading the essay, "Summer: 15 Days or 2 1/2 Months?".  Students were tasked with reading the essay and then deconstructing the key components on their persuasion map.

Career Guidance: We officially kicked off our unit on Entrepreneurship by discussing what exactly an Entrepreneur is and where we could find some local examples here in Regina.  Students were also given a hypothetical situation where they were given $100 to start up their own business and had to explain to the class what their business would be.

Religion: After lunch the students got into their groups from yesterday and began working on their Stations of the Resurrection assignments.

Math: Students were given the entire period to write their Unit 8 Math Exam.

*Students, please remember email me your photo re-creation assignments for your Grade 8 Farewell. These are due on Friday, April 16th and I have only received a few so far.  Please, Please, Please start getting them into me soon.  Just in case you lost the note that went home, here is a digital copy.  

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

-Watch the 9.1 Video for Monday's class.

Science:

-Fish Dissection Lab Report is due on April 18th

Reminders:

-We will be going to the Southland Mall cinemas on April 11th to view the movie Allegiant with Mr. Rieger's class.

What We Learned Today...April 7th

ELA: After our usual AR period, students were given the remainder of the class to complete their practice introduction paragraph explaining whether or not I would make a good body guard for Justin Bieber.

Work Period: With many of our students away at full band, the remainder of the students were given the entire class to work on their dissection lab report or any other homework they had.

Religion: Before the Easter break we participated in an interpretation of the Stations of the Cross which depicted Jesus' Passion.  Now that Jesus has resurrected from the dead, the students have been tasked with creating images for the "Stations of the Resurrection" that depict his journey from the dead to his ascension into Heaven

*Students, please remember email me your photo re-creation assignments for your Grade 8 Farewell. These are due on Friday, April 16th and I have only received a few so far.  Please, Please, Please start getting them into me soon.  Just in case you lost the note that went home, here is a digital copy.  

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

-Unit 8 Exam is tomorrow

Religion:

-Four Gospel assignment is due tomorrow

Science:

-Fish Dissection Lab Report is due on April 18th

Reminders:

-We will be going to the Southland Mall cinemas on April 11th to view the movie Allegiant with Mr. Rieger's class.

What We Learned Today...April 6th

ELA: We started out our morning with a brief AR period before finishing up persuasive essay assignment from yesterday.  Over the second half of the period we reviewed the key ingredients for a good introduction paragraph and students began writing their own practice paragraph using the prompt: "Would Mr. B make a good body guard for Justin Bieber?"

Science: Students got into the groups we made before the Easter break and participated in the Separation Lab.  Over the period students were tasked with efficiently separating a mixture of sand and sawdust and  I was quite impressed with how creative the different procedures were.

Easter Mass: After lunch we walked over to the church for our Easter Mass. A special thank you to Ms. Folk, Ms. Joyce and Ms. Papandreou for planning such a wonderful celebration!

A couple more pictures from Science today:



Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

-Unit 8 Exam is on Friday

Religion:

-Four Gospel assignment is due on Friday

Science:

-Bring separation lab materials tomorrow

Reminders:

-Bring back signed movie notes by tomorrow.

-We will be going to the Southland Mall cinemas on April 11th to view the movie Allegiant with Mr. Rieger's class.

What We Learned Today...April 5th

ELA: This morning we continued where we left off yesterday by reviewing the key components of a five paragraph essay.  We also took some time to examine two persuasive essay samples and students were tasked with identifying the good and bad qualities of each piece of work.

Awesome spoon art project!

Genius Hour: Students were given the entire period to research their Genius Hour topics.

Religion: After lunch the students continued working on their four Gospel assignment from yesterdays class.

Math: While students spent the majority of the class writing their Unit 8 quiz, we spent a little bit of time near the end to go through their 8.5 assignments so they are fully prepared for the unit exam on Friday.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:
-Character Fakebooks are overdue

Math:

-Unit 8 Exam is on Friday

Career Ed:

-Career Brochures are overdue

Religion:

-Christian Service Hours are due overdue (Bonus marks were awarded if handed in earlier)

Science:

-Bring separation lab materials tomorrow

Reminders:

-Bring back signed movie notes by tomorrow.

-Easter Mass is from 1:00 - 3:00 tomoorrow,  April 6th at Christ the King Church

What We Learned Today...April 4th

Working hard on their assignments...?

ELA: We kicked off our week back by learning about Persuasive Writing and the basic components of a five paragraph essay.

Religion: After lunch the students were tasked with reading each of the four Gospel accounts of Jesus' resurrection and identifying the similarities and differences between them. To view the assignment please click here.

Math: Students were given the entire period to study and review the content from Unit 8 in preparation for their quiz tomorrow and unit exam on Friday.

Science: During the last hour of the day we reviewed the Particle Theory of Matter and learned about the difference between Solutes and Solvents.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

ELA:
-Character Fakebooks are overdue

Math:

-Unit 8 Quiz is tomorrow.

-Unit 8 Exam is on Friday

Career Ed:

-Career Brochures are overdue

Religion:

-Christian Service Hours are due overdue (Bonus marks were awarded if handed in earlier)

Science:

-Bring separation lab materials for Wednesday.

Reminders:

-Bring back signed movie notes by Wednesday, April 6th

-Easter Mass is from 1:00 - 3:00 on Wednesday, April 6th at Christ the King Church