MATH 8
- Quiz on multiplying integers - PEDMAS with integers (section 8-5) *** Quiz on dividing integers tomorrow. LEADERSHIP - Busy day today sorting and handing out candy grams, finding out the winners from our different challenges this week and handing out Christmas cards and gifts to our staff! The food drive wraps up tomorrow. PHOTOS WITH SANTA?!? The creepiest looking Santa in my teaching career! MATH 8
- Today we went over our Chap 4 test - We reviewed our multiplying integers for our quiz tomorrow - Notes on 8-3 and 8-4 (Dividing integers) ....quiz Friday on this. LEADERSHIP - We were back at "The Loop" today to do some more volunteering.....plenty of potato peeling, unloading of a truck load of food and a nice talk from one of the community members on alcoholism and how it can affect your life. MATH 8 - Notes on multiplying integers (Sections 8-1 and 8-2) - Loads of time to work through the questions from these sections. Students are to not do the questions using "jettons", rather, simply work through them as a normal math question. *** There will be a quiz on multiplying fractions Thursday and a quiz on dividing fractions Friday. LEADERSHIP - A big work day on making Christmas cards, decorating doors, Christmas week or prepping for our public speaking activities in the new year. - Questions from our guest speaker Mr Bill Sarai's presentation last week: 1. What is one thing that you learned from councillor Sarai? 2. What was one pointer he gave towards running a campaign and why did he say that he was so successful? 3. What is special about this year's city council? 4. What was his "big vision" for our city planning? MATH 8 - Chapter 4 test followed by a review of adding and subtracting integers LEADERSHIP - Field trip to "The Loop" to help with the Kamloops COVID Meal Train program! Great experience and thanks to Glenn Hilke and his staff over there for having us. We were able to convert their shelter from Saturday night into a little cafe for the less fortunate of Kamloops and then we learned about how our words matter in dealing with folks suffering from addictions and other struggles. We also got busy making lunch for the day and sorting their recycling. MATH 8 - Today we spent 45 min on review and then worked on our Math word problem booklets for Monday. *** Booklets and Chp 4 test are Monday LEADERSHIP - Today we worked on our Christmas week, our public speaking and the Food Drive. - Learning Cohort Spirit Activity in the gym for the Grade 8 French crew was today in the Gym (see pics below) - City Counsellor Bill Sarai came and spoke to the class about community leadership, campaigning and how councils work. LEADERSHIP - Today we reflected on our trip downtown yesterday with a journal entry on our websites - Murder Mystery communication activity - Hall Decorating and Spirit week prep as well as our first Learning Cohort Spirit day for the Gr 8 English students playing some holiday pictionary games. MATH 8
- Work on Commission, Rebates, Interest and Taxes - Google Classroom assignment creating Math booklets for this Chapter (Google Class Code: kfnhnxs *** Booklets are due Monday and our Chapter 4 test is also Monday. MATH 8
- Today we reviewed the material from Chapter 4 for the first half of the class and then wrote our quiz on sections 4-1 to 4-3 before wrapping up some questions on taxes and discounts. *** Tomorrow we will be starting a project on Google Classroom where the students will be creating little word problem booklets to go along with our work on interest, taxes, commission and discounts/sales LEADERSHIP - RAK Day!!! Random Acts of Kindness downtown we happening all over the place. Today the class took to the streets of downtown to deliver Blazers mitts and blankets, Tim Horton's breakfast sandwiches, doughnuts, muffins and hot chocolates, and granola bars and juice boxes to those in need. A great experience for everyone involved today! :) Thanks very much to our local sponsors, the Kamloops Blazers, Tim Hortons (Aberdeen location) and Safeway for their generous donations to the cause. LEADERSHIP - Friday we got the go ahead to do our annual food drive!!!! Lots of work today on spirit activities, Christmas week and our Food Drive competitition. MATH 8
- Notes on sections 4-3 and 4-4 as well as plenty of time to work on the questions. LEADERSHIP
- We had some great tongue twisters, jokes and products to be sold today! Nice work crew :) - Time to work on our spirit weeks and our Christmas week! *** Great news!!! The Food Bank food drive was given the green light! Next week until Christmas! MATH 8 - Section 4-2 (percentages greater than 100% or between 0-1% and converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. - Probability episode of the TV series Numb3rs (math based CSI show) to prep for our Probability unit and give the students a break :) |
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