Tuesday - Film Production Day One

Good evening all!  We had an interesting day today.  The morning was really productive and I was impressed at how many of you worked well and listened in the morning! Great job! This afternoon we had a few snags in our plans (including a fire drill...SURPRISE!) so we weren't as productive but we still worked hard!

We started the morning off watching the video below. 

Some of you took notes and we stopped the video to discuss what both the grade 7's and 8's got out of this lesson.  After that, we started working on practicing and applying our skills.  The grade 7's did some hands on math building and charting.  Applying their knowledge of  term values, the terms and communicating patterns.  The grade 8's continued identifying the constant in multiple patterns and then designing algebraic expressions for their findings.  Some people started working together and a few of you who were struggling had a breakthrough today( Woo hoo! Picture me doing the robot dance)!  Homework for 7's p.131 #8-11 (try 12 if you dare).   For 8's - the entire worksheet...we'll be unpacking some ideas tomorrow in the AM!  So be ready.

Today in language we talked about JUST the introductory paragraph for your Student of the Month (S.O.T.M.) nomination papers.  We talked about the importance of grabbing your audience's attention at the beginning and making sure you follow through with a solid thesis statement.  After tomorrow's lesson I will post pictures of the charts from class so that you can refer to them when you start writing your nominations.  We finished with brainstorming some of your ideas and you worked with a partner to get the ideas out.  Finally...it was lunch.

Today French was a wrap up of the quiz from yesterday....I am unsure of the next assignment but will touch base with Ms. Wong tomorrow.

During our History periods we handed in our title page assignments.  If you haven't handed it in today get it done tonight!!Then we went outside to capture some of the photos for our film, which worked really well.  Special thanks to Anjali and Beyonce for your extra help, it was much appreciated! :)

We ended the day with a library exchange, special thanks to our library helpers Beyonce and Destinee you made it a flawless transition and I was so glad you were there. 

For tomorrow:
Math: Homework for 7's p.131 #8-11 (try 12 if you dare).   For 8's - the entire worksheet 
Language: SOTM brainstorm & I am From final draft
History: Title page
Walking Forms & Terry Fox money
Index card correction sheets! 


Have a great night and I'll see you tomorrow! <3