Thanks

Thanks so much for your hard work today 8's. I really appreciate it and I know the staff and students really do as well. I was so very proud of you all.
Now, I need to sleep!:)

Weekly Challenge #2 -Integers

Anmol had $624 in her bank account.
Over the summer she made four withdrawls of $75 each (2 withdrawls in July and 2 in August).
What is the balance in Anmol's account?
Write an integer expression to represent this problem.
Solve the problem.


Anmol also had to pay a $5 service charge for July and August, and she earned interest on her account at 10% per month.
What was the value of her account in September?

Changing Subtraction to Addition with Integers

Write the statements for these Witch's Brew recipes, then turn them into addition statements and solve them. Please have your work for period 1 tomorrow.

Zero Pairs

We had a fun time today exploring with zero pairs in math. Grade 8's, use the link below to show someone at home how to do the following operations.

Virtual Manipulatives

you can use the 2 colour counters under Manipulatives

  (+3) - (-9)         OR         (-4) - (+3)

If your printer is working, print off the sheet showing your work and bring it to me on Monday morning for 5 bonus tokens for your tribe!
A couple of hints -
1 - if your printer is not working, draw it out and bring it in
2 - instant message or facebook your tribemates so that they solve it as well and can earn your tribe bonus points!

Have a great weekend! I really enjoyed working with our class today:)

Math and language notes from today

If you were one of the many who were away today, her is a bit of what we did.
You need to be able to add and multiply percentages with one decimal place.

Our Big Idea in Language right now is, What makes a hero?

We had many great conversations and here are some of the notes from them.

Weekly Challenge - Due by Monday, Sept. 26th, 2011

Please answer the following challenge in a comment on this post.

Begin your comment with your first name and last initial.

Show as much of your thinking as possible in your comment.

You may cut and paste each question to begin your answer.

In order to see the information clearly, you can click on the Terry Fox document below (this will make it bigger and easier to see)

1.  Use the information given to determine how many days Terry Fox's 1980 Marathon of Hope lasted.

2. If Terry took 1 day of rest every 9.5 days, how many days was he actually running?

3. How many kilometres per day did Terry Fox average when he was running?

*the 3rd point is difficult to read. It says 'He covered 5 565 km.'

Word Processing From Home

If you are having trouble with finding a compatible program, you have a few options. Send the text to yourself as an email that you can open at school and cut and paste it into your work (make sure you can access your email at school). This is a great reason to have First Class downloaded on your home computer. You could also try and copy the text onto a flash drive in Notepad format and then open and cut and paste it at school.
Or worst case scenario print it out at home and use REAL glue to paste it to your work at school. At least then you've got your work completed.

Help Wanted!!!

Grade 8's,
On Thursday night at the Meet the Teacher, we will be running a BINGO game for the families. I need a short blurb written up about this to tell the families about it. There will be some cool prizes too. We will run the bingo at 6:30 from the stage in the gym. There is no cost, we are trying to draw awareness for our biweekly Bingo that we need adult volunteers for (it is from 4-7 on every other Friday night at the Delta Bingo, and involves the volunteer counting quarters.) I have a few student volunteers for the game on Thursday night, but I could use a few more.

We are going to do our first fundraiser for graduation and sell drawstring gymbags with the Eastdale logo on them. There will be a sample bag to check out at the Meet the Teacher night and we will take orders for them. The cost will be $...(I'll let you know tomorrow after I figure out the math). We need a write up for this as well, and I will need some volunteers to work at the table. Please let me know if you are available for any of these responsibilities.

Thanks,
Mrs. F

PS Your journal entries today from Parvana's point of view are quite good. Keep working on your Superhero stories (due Friday) and remember to get rid of the DW's (dead words) in your writing to make it more interesting. (I was so proud today when I witnessed several of you looking up at the tombstones on our wall to find more interesting words for your journal entries).

Monday Math

Here are the images we worked on for prime factorization today.

The third picture was showing the smallest number you could make with the factors 2, 3, and 5. We figured out that if the factors were all prime numbers, when we multiply them together, we will get the smallest number possible. In the blue example, we knew that 14 was a composite number so we broke it down into its prime factors and then multiplied 2, 3 and 7 together to get 42 (the smallest number possible that has 2, 3 and 14 as its factors).

This math may seem a little strange or like something that you wouldn't use very often (or ever) but you will find it very helpful to understand this when we are working with fractions later in the year(and, more importantly, later in your life!). 

Agenda Update

We are very close to having all forms and agenda money handed in! Great JOB!

Student Body assignment must be completed by 3:10 tomorrow.


If you have a medium sized river rock to spare, please bring it in tomorrow.


Wear black on Monday.

2 On a Crayon

2 Students...One paper...One crayon...One task. Create a new insect (or candy machine) and draw it in ten minutes.

What did you learn from this task about working together?

Day 2

Today we did 2 Stars and a Wish on a peers graphic organizer for the Superhero Writing assignment. We quickly figured out that we need to make connections among our ideas to help develop it into better writing. In order to do this we need to try out more than one idea. (we compared our writing to choosing the right colour of paint for a wall - it is important to try out more than one shade of the colour). We connected our pizza-delivering superhero to a weakness with food (Big Mac sauce) in order to tie it all together.


In math, we looked at exponents and found the following out.

Welcome Back!!

Thanks for a wonderful first day grade 8's. I am really looking forward to this year with you.  Please share this blog with your parents tonight and if you have a google account, become a follower of our blog (If you don't have an account, ask if you can sign up for one).

When you are posting a comment, you may need to click "Preview" first for it to work. (it should give you a message that your comment will be visible after the moderator has seen it). Email me at sumera.fraser@hwdsb.on.ca if you are having problems with that.

Here is a bit of what we talked about today to show your family.

Remember to have your first paragraph's information for your Superhero completed on your graphic organizer for tomorrow (in pointform only - we'll do sentences later).

A Math Link to get you started...

One of the first concepts we will cover in math is Exponents.

Check out this lesson for a quick refresher!

Get a head start on some of your math by checking out some Exponent Games.