Vow of Silence Today

What a great day!  Everyone worked so hard at being silent and representing those children who do not have a voice.  Thanks to everyone for participating!  I even heard that the grade 2 and 3 classes were silent like the grade 7 and 8 students...good work!

8ELA-Library.  Read the short story "The Sniper".  HOMEWORK:  THE SNIPER Q 1-5
8M SS - Began an internet activity via www.pbs.org/empires/egypt in which we learned about daily life in several Egyptian job categories.
7REL - HOMEWORK:  JOURNAL REFLECTION ON TRUST WORDS.

**Tomorrow the Me to We Team will announce the events taking place during December. 
Assembly at 9 AM in the MPR.

Vow of Silence Tomorrow!

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Holy Cross will be participating in the global event Vow of Silence sponsored by Free the Children.  Our whole school will be silent (some younger grades less than the older ones) to stand in solidarity with children who do not have their basic rights.  Think of us tomorrow!

8ELA - Worked on Spelling Review Unit 11 due tomorrow.
8SS - Worked on Egyptian Pyramids, Q. 1-5

Long Time, No Talk

8ELA - Reading class today.  Spelling test for unit 11.  Peer conferencing for our Narrative Paragraphs based on photos.  HOMEWORK:  FINAL COPY NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH.
7HEALTH - Started our unit on Human Sexuality.  Discussed adolescence with its good and bad parts.  Learned about the male and female reproductive systems.  Reflected on related scripture (Gen. 1:27-31 and 2:21-24, Cor. 12:26, Ps. 139:13-15, Jer. 1:5).  Completed a worksheet on the wonder of the human reproductive process.

VOW OF SILENCE Campaign

Me to We Team members presented to every class today about our school's action to make the world a better place.  NOVEMBER 30 WE WILL BE SILENT!  By raising awareness about children's rights and the suffering of children who do not have the most basic rights, we become the change we want to see in the world.  Check out the pledge package sent home today!  Look here:  http://www.freethechildren.com/vowofsilence/

http://www.humanrights.com/#/videos/right-to-play
http://www.humanrights.com/#/videos/right-to-education

Enjoy Your Weekend

8M SS  - Work class for Egyptian Religion.  HOMEWORK:  EGYPTIAN RELIGION Q 1-8.
8B SS - Corrrected Egyptian Religion.  Read about Egyptian Education and Writing.  NO HOMEWORK.
8ELA - Unit 9 Spelling Test and work time for Social Studies.
7SS - Corrected yesterday's homework about basic geography vocabulary.  NO HOMEWORK.  MAPPING TEST ON MONDAY
7REL - No class today but Timeline posters will be due on Monday.

**Collected 7Health notebooks today.
**If you did not contribute to the silver collection today, please do so on Monday.
**Take the time tomorrow to remember those who have died and served our country.  It is because of their sacrifice that we can enjoy a wonderful fall day in this great country of Canada!

Grade 7 was Busy Today!

7Health - From yesterday's double, students worked on a story and applied their knowledge of conflict and conflict resolution to real-life scenarios of cliques.  HOMEWORK:  BELONGING Q 1-5 DUE TOMORROW.
7SS - Learning about basic geography vocabulary and applied their knowledge to the homework questions.  HOMEWORK:  GEOGRAPHY TERMS Q 1-13 DUE TOMORROW.  MAPPING QUIZ TOMORROW.
7 REL - Students continued working on their timeline posters of the Christian story.  HOMEWORK:  TIMELINE POSTERS DUE TOMORROW.
8B SS - Work time for the topic of Egyptian Religion and summed up our learning of Egyptian geography with a map assignment.  HOMEWORK:  EGYPT MAP AND EGYPTIAN
RELIGION Q 1-8.
8M SS - Corrected our internet activity homework on Egyptian Resources.
8 ELA - Skills Tests were returned, reviewed and need to be signed.  Spelling Unit 9 work was corrected.  Spelling Test tomorrow.

**Grade 8 Re-Dos are due tomorrow.  Missing work is due tomorrow.
**Get Grade 8 Skills Tests signed.
**Poppy donations for tomorrow's Remembrance Service.

8ELA - Arachne's Web play has been assigned and is due next class.  Spelling Test Tomorrow.  Skills Test Monday.  Nature Unit Test Tuesday.
8SS - Resources, Trade, and Farming has been assigned and due next class.

Picture Re-Takes or Money Due Tomorrow

8 ELA - Corrected Skills and Spelling Unit 8.  SKILLS TEST MONDAY (CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION).
8B ELA - Corrected "Every Day is Earth Day", read through "Arachne's Web".  HOMEWORK:  "ARACHNE'S WEB" Q 1-4.
8M ELA - Finished reading "Every Day is Earth Day".  HOMEWORK:  "EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY Q 1-6.
8B SS - Reminder to complete the internet activity on Egyptian resources (see Monday's blog for the address).  Today we continued working on Egyptian Geography with a focus on Farming and Trade.  HOMEWORK:  FARMING Q 1 AND 2 PLUS TECHNOLOGY BLM AND TRADE Q 1-3. 
8M SS - Learned about Egyptian Resources and visited the British Museum on-line.  HOMEWORK:  EGYPTIAN RESOURCES VIA www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography.
7SS - Corrected our Australia and Antarctica maps.  Discussed the world map assignment and expectations.  HOMEWORK:  WORLD MAP Q. 1 AND 2 PLUS BODIES OF WATER.