Friday, December 1st

 

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

- Created a question of interest in order to collect data from all the grade 7/8 students  (click for direct access) 

- Review package (central tendencies, histograms, line graphs)

Homework: 

- Complete math package from today 

Literacy 

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

- Discussed persuasive writing structure 

Homework: 

- Persuasive Writing Structure slides (click for direct access) 

- Pronouns Day 3 (click for direct access)

- Study for parts of speech quiz (click for direct access) 

- 20 minutes of silent reading

Health

- Groups continued working on their concussion inquiry assignment 

Homework: 

- None