Winter Festival...

So, it is almost here!!! Remember to get your plans/materials together this weekend for your contribution to the table and fill in your shopping list for Wednesday.

Here's one of the things on my list again this year!) What's on yours?




Great job so far on the Pennies for Change drive! You have made a change for five people already! Your enthusiasm is catching on with the younger students! Keep it up!
On the topic of younger students, I have an Active Playground initiative for interested students. It would involve learning and leading some games for nutrition breaks on the blacktop (variations of 4-Square, wall-ball,...). Let me know if you are interested in taking on this project.

Remember to come prepared on Monday for your first book talk with your group. If you are one of the directors, make sure you have some questions ready (if you are stuck, you can always look online for ideas). If you didn't finish your Eatum Hall response today, please have it submitted on google to me before Monday.

Homework

If your google account is working, please answer in that format. For those of you who don't have a working account now, you can answer here.

What did you like/dislike about the text so far? Explain.

What statements might the author be making about society in this book? Use evidence from the text.

Make an algaebraic expression that would solve for how many times your name would go in the draw for the Hunger Games (varies according to the # of people in your family and how old you are).

Into Integers...

So our next area of study in math will be integers. By grade 8 you will have added and subtracted integers and used some manipulatives to help you with this (calculator, counters). Here is a short video that will refresh your knowledge.
Integers With Chips

This video uses a numberline instead of the integer discs.
Integers with Number line


Which method do you like better?

If you like the number line, it might help to think of positives as hot and negatives as cold.

When we + hot (or a positive number) to something, it gets warmer.
When we - hot from something, it gets colder.
When we + cold (or a negative number) to something, it gets colder.
When we - cold from something, it gets warmer.

PIGGY

Here is one of your classmates responses to the assignment... What is your response to this?

Everyday, I work hard to rais my family. I am 16 and our family doesn't have much money. I try my best not to mess up...
"Can you pass the ketchup?"
"Sure mom." I answer politely. I mistaknely drop th eketchup onto the floor and a loud squishy noise sounds as it splatters across the floor like someone being shot.
My dad gives me a sharp look, slowly reaches over the dinner table and grabs me by the collar of my shirt. A fear slowly increases throughout my body. Adrenaline strikes as I struggle trying to unleash. He drags me upstairs, as I consistantly hit my back off each step.
I scream, as my screech pierces downstairs surrounding my little brothers ears. I don't exactly live perfect
...

"Beep, beep, beep." I shut off my alarm clock and quickly get out of bed, get dressed and run out the door so I don't get in more trouble. At school, my antagonism kicks in. My teachers seem to think something is happening at home, but if I tell them, who knows. A sort of meaty kid walks by, and I yell, "Piggy!" as others join me.

An unusual descent leads my mind. I wonder, as everyone yessl "Piggy!" becomes more fatal, and less hearable. I stop, I think about where I'm going in life. A dark puls engages with my viens and I tense up. I slowly leave the school, walking to the unknown field to think.
I hear voices...
"Hostile attitude will only get...Think about your life! Don't ruin hi...Stop!" I pass out as darkness overpowers the world.

Today's writing to finish

The character ... reminds me of...

Remember to include details about internal characteristics of the people you are comparing.

Write a life story about one of the bullies in the classroom. Include all of the important events up to the point where they were sitting in their desk chanting, "Piggy!"
(Back-story, why they bully.)

World Issues

Our grade eight ambassadors spent the day at HSC today learning about a variety of Global Issues. They took part in many interesting workshops and are eager to share what they learned with the rest of the class as well as our school. It was a treat to hear from guest speaker Marc Kielburger of Free the Children. I am looking forward to seeing how the Me to We idea gets put back in place at our school! It has been a while since we had the group running. Our first initiative, Halloween for Hunger was a huge success (925 donations)! Can't wait to see where we will go from here!

Diagrams - Science

Here are the sketches to complete for today's work.

Remembrance Day Assembly

Our class is responsible for hosting this Friday's Remembrance Day assembly. On Wednesday, I have a volunteer here to work during the nutrition breaks with a few students to plan the assembly. If you are interested in being part of the planning, please post your name here.

Sentence of the Weeeeeek

Today we looked at how to show posession of something by adding an 's at the end of a person's name.

What was the tricky instance for adding 's to the end of someone's name? How do we solve this problem?

Use the 's we learned about today to write a sentence about each of the following:

my shoes
a cat
your friend
a computer
worms
snow
a beach

You should have 7 sentences in total. Write one final sentence of your choice using your name in it.

Be sure to check back in the comment section for feedback on your work. Feel free to add feedback help for your peers as well. I'll give tokens for that!

science - cells

Unicellular Organisms
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/unicellularorganisms.html

Amoeba
http://www.infovisual.info/02/003_en.html

Metabolism
http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/metabolism.html