Magic Monday

Happy week everyone!  Glad everyone had a great weekend and a busy one at that!  A lot of you were busy like me, running around the city...partying, going to the movies.  Today was a great day with a lot of work being done.  I'm glad to see that most of you are taking advantage of the work periods in class and extra help with conferencing in language especially.

We started the morning off with the grade 8's continuing with word problems involving adding and subtracting negative and positive integers.  Many students worked with a partner and got most of their work done in class.  The grade 7's began to come up with some strategies to identify opposite integers and we discussed the "zero principle".  We discovered that when two exact opposite numbers that are positive and negative are added together, then their product number is most definitely zero.  Just a reminder that there will be a brief quiz tomorrow, so practice your number lines for the sevens and eights make sure you understand how to add and subtract simple integers.
Homework was: 8's - p.187 #15-19  7's - p.194 #3-9

Next we had Language, and we had a discussion about the value of zero.  Many of you had some great ideas about what zero meant.  We talked about what it meant when a zero balance is on a credit card bill, you get something for zero dollars like clothes or gifts and we also talked about what it felt like outside when it is zero degrees.  I forgot to mention one more, what about when something is a size zero?  We had some great dialogue today and I look forward to your journal entries that you do on this tomorrow in class.  Next you worked on your Awesomes and your SOTM papers.  I was able to conference with some of you, and most of you have handed in your rough drafts of your AWESOME papers to be edited.  Final drafts are due on Friday (soft due date) and Monday (hard due date).  So keep working on those papers if you haven't finished them already!

After lunch we had a double period of History.  Most of you finished up the questions...but just a reminder they are due tomorrow!! Also if you have a textbook at home, they are due tomorrow because I will be taking them all to Mrs. Nicholson's class so that they can do the work that you have just finished.  Finally, at the end of class I got you thinking about your upcoming research projects.  7's & 8's were encouraged to start to pick who they wanted to work with and which topic as well.

Finally trip forms were handed out for the Science Center, and you are asked to bring them back ASAP  with $3.00 for bus transportation. 

For tomorrow:
Math: 8's - p.187 #15-19  7's - p.194 #3-9
History: Text books and  7- p.33 #1-4(a) & p.41 #1-3  8-p.33 #1&2, p.35 1&2(a),p.36 #1
Language: Awesome rough draft, SOTM
Gym: Practice Dance
Trip forms + $3.00   

Have a great night, and enjoy the pictures from Lucy's party and our pumpkin patch adventure!  

The kids at the party!

Cutting her fancy cake

In the pumpkin patch

Birthday girl hanging from the bars!