Thursday, November 30, 2023

Thursday, November 30th

 

Announcements: 

*We are collecting non-perishable items for the food drive. Canned foods, cereal, pastas are welcome! 

*All students are expected to have indoor and outdoor boots, now that the field is extremely muddy

*If you did not get the change to schedule an interview, please contact me via Edsby or email if you'd like to meet.

*Library is every Day 2 of the school cycle from 12-12:20pm

Important Upcoming Dates

Friday, December 1st - Parts of Speech and Literary Devices Quiz (postponed to Monday, December 4th)

Tuesday, December 5th - Microscope quiz (8's)

Next Week At A Glance 

* Please note, these are subject to change to support students' needs*

Math: selecting appropriate graphs to represent data 
Literacy: persuasive writing assignment
Science:  Intro to culminating projects & grade 8 lab
Geography: Global settlement patterns 
Health: Personal Safety Quiz
Art: aluminum sculpture work period

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

Learning Goal: We are learning to collect continuous, discrete and two-variable data and represent it using an appropriate graph

- Appropriate uses for different graphs (bar graphs, pictographs, scatter plots, line graphs) 

Brainstormed different graphs and examples (click for direct access)

- Practiced plotting data on scatter plots and histograms

Homework: 

7's: complete histograms worksheet package 

8's: complete scatter plot/histogram worksheet package 

**Extra Practice: 

Lesson 8: Histograms (click for direct access) 

- Review questions 1-4

- Exercise questions 1-3


Literacy 

Learning Goal: We are learning to write strong paragraphs using proper structure and supporting evidence

- Discussed paragraph structure 

Homework: 

- OVERDUE:  My Three causes brainstorming (click for direct access)

- Paragraph structure slides (click for direct) 

- 20 minutes of silent reading


Science  

7's: Water cycle in a bag experiment

8's: Microscope review 

Homework: 

8's - study for microscope quiz (parts and functions for each)

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