What We Learned Today...May 31st

ELA: Students were given one final period to finish up their Persuasive Writing Assessments.

Fully Alive: We continued our unit on Sexuality by learning about the difference between intimacy and sexual intimacy.

Genius Hour: After lunch students spent the half hour period working on their Genius Hour final projects.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st  Now due on Monday, June 6th

Math:

-All Math assignments are due on Thursday, June 2nd

Reminders:

-Canoeing on Friday afternoon for Phys. Ed

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is TBA

-City Track and Field Meet is on June 7th and 8th

What We Learned Today...May 30th

Our Retreat for tomorrow has been cancelled due to the weather.  We are looking into an alternate date for June.  I will post the new date on my blog once it is set in stone.

Fully Alive:  After lunch we finished up the intro lesson on Sexuality that we began last week. This lesson focused on the gift of sexuality as well as different challenges all people face during their journey to adulthood.  I've posted the full power point below lesson below:

Math:  Students were given the entire period to work on the 11.3 assignment which built directly off of the 11.2 lesson from last week.  Tomorrow we will start our year review because students will be writing their Math Diagnostic next week.

Science/ELA:  During the last hour of the day we took some time to learn about the difference between Gravitational Forces and Buoyant Forces before students finished up their Persuasive Writing Assessments.

Some pictures from our Friday afternoon last week:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st  Now due on Monday, June 6th

Math:

-All Math assignments are due on Thursday, June 2nd

Reminders:

-Canoeing on Friday afternoon for Phys. Ed

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is TBA

-City Track and Field Meet is on June 7th and 8th

What We Learned Today...May 25th

Mr. Stawarz stopped by today!

Track and Field Meet: With half our class competing at the Quad Meet, the remainder of our class stayed back at the school and watched a reward movie for the morning.

Religion: We were fortunate to have Mr. Stawarz join us this afternoon to teach us about St. Francis as well as the mysterious stigmata that he experienced during his life.

Math: Since we've had a little break since our last class, we spent a little time reviewing probability before students began working on the 11.2 assignment.

A little delayed, but here is the wonderful welcome back video our class made yesterday:

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st

Reminders:

-Canoeing on Friday afternoon for Phys. Ed

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is on May 31st

What We Learned Today...May 24th

Today was an amazing day as we got some fantastic news this morning that one of our own would be rejoining us this afternoon! As a result, we spent the majority of the morning working together to create some pretty cool things for a welcome back party.  While we only had a short time to prepare a special "welcome back" for our classmate, I was so impressed with how awesome everyone did and the end result was amazing.  As I've said before, we have such an amazing class and I'm so blessed to work with such kind and caring students each day.  I'm really going to miss this group when they move on to Grade Nine!

Career Ed: After our welcome back celebration we took some time to watch the recorded Dragons Den pitches from last week.  After viewing them for a second time, they continue to blow me away with how amazing they were! Well done everyone.

*Fully Alive:

Our class will be starting Theme Three in Fully Alive, titled: Created Sexual, Male and Female tomorrow.  This theme will discuss sexuality, examine puberty, fertility and identify STIs.  If you would like additional information, please let me know.  I am happy to send a textbook home for you to familiarize yourself with the content your child will be learning.  

Please submit your STAR Pictures to Mr. B ASAP!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st

Reminders:

-Track Meet tomorrow.  Select students need to be at the school by 7:45 to board the bus to the meet.

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is on May 31st

What We Learned Today...May 17th

Pitching "Paint Ball Z"

Dragons Den: The day finally arrived! Today the students had the opportunity to pitch their hypothetical business to a panel of "Dragons" who in turn asked questions and gave feedback on their ideas.  I'm so impressed with how amazing the groups did with this assignment, especially with the fact that they were only given two weeks to put it together. A special thanks to Bruce Anderson, Jennifer Buckingham and Adam Reeson for giving up their time to spend the morning with us!

Grade 8 Activities: We spent the afternoon working on Grade 8 Farewell activities with our fellow Grade 8 students from Mr. Rieger's class.  These activities included letter writing, star compliments and designing the cover for our farewell program.

A few more pictures from Dragons Den:

*Fully Alive:

Our class will be starting Theme Three in Fully Alive, titled: Created Sexual, Male and Female.  This theme will discuss sexuality, examine puberty, fertility and identify STIs.  If you would like additional information, please let me know.  I am happy to send a textbook home for you to familiarize yourself with the content your child will be learning.  

Please submit your STAR Pictures to Mr. B ASAP!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st

Reminders:

-PAA day at Miller is on May 19th

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is on May 31st

What We Learned Today...May 16th

Religion: This morning we were visited by Deacon Joe who spoke to us about the power of prayer and shared some personal stories of prayer with us.  We also took some time to work on healing prayers of our own.

Career Ed: Students were given the entire period to work on their Dragons Den pitches that they will be presenting tomorrow morning.

Math: Students spent the period working on the 11.1 handout as well as any other homework they had.

*Fully Alive:

Our class will be starting Theme Three in Fully Alive, titled: Created Sexual, Male and Female.  This theme will discuss sexuality, examine puberty, fertility and identify STIs.  If you would like additional information, please let me know.  I am happy to send a textbook home for you to familiarize yourself with the content your child will be learning.  

Please submit your STAR Pictures to Mr. B ASAP!

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

11.1 is due tomorrow.

Career Ed:

-Dragons Den pitch is tomorrow

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st

Reminders:

-Email Mr. B your Farewell Star Picture.

-PAA day at Miller is on May 19th

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is on May 31st

What We Learned Today...May 13th

Career Ed: Students worked in their groups on improving their Dragons Den pitches using the advice that Adam gave them yesterday.

Genius Hour: After lunch students spent the half hour period working on their Genius Hour projects.

ELA: Students were given the entire period to finish up the research portion of their Persuasive Writing Assessments.

Upcoming Due Dates & Homework

Math:

11.1 is due on Monday

Career Ed:

-Dragons Den pitch is on May 17th

Genius Hour:

-Projects are due on May 31st

Reminders:

-Email Mr. B your Farewell Star Picture.

-PAA day at Miller is on May 19th

-Grade 7/8 Retreat is on May 31st