MOVEMBER DAY!

What a hilarious day! I'm not sure what was funnier, Dylan with his extreme sideburns and 'stache combo special, Tomas with his long handlebar moustache that he stroked all through the morning, Terry with a hand drawn finger with a moustache drawn on that, Will with a pink Hogan-esque stache, Renis with an overgrown curly moustache, Sahifa with a sparkly uni-brow, stache/tickler combo or Angela with her secret moustache with attitude. All made me laugh, and were a wonderful addition to a fun-filled Clairlea Spirit Day. We have almost made our goal of $150.00 and there are still some classes who are bringing their money in on Monday, so it's a great day for Cancer research! (Any students who forgot money today can bring in fifty cents or a quarter on Monday to drop in a donation if they forgot today, after all it is the reason for the spirit day in the first place!)

On a more serious note...we took up the Science investigation today and swapped information to make a complete chart. Students were given an opportunity to share what they found out and record other student's results. We discussed the key concepts again surrounding: MASS, WEIGHT & VOLUME and decided that the good copy of our investigation notes and questions would be due this Tuesday November 28th, 2011. The details of the expectations for this assignment will be below in the pictures.

We also have begun the Math games today...and all groups did really well. We will continue them on Monday with some review on : Scientific Notation, Bedmas with exponents, Powers of 10 and some Adding of integers. Bring your Mathlete minds and your A-Games because there are prizes to be won. Great work to : Terry, Bory, Martina & Mhogan AND Angela, Caytlin, Sara & Rachelle = your groups start off in the lead on Monday. So great job. If you would like some review on Scientific Notation please follow the link and do some review: http://www.321know.com/g8_71fx1.htm


We had to complete the in-school census this afternoon which didn't give us much time to do work on our History research projects OR any English...so you can find some links to help you with your History research below, please print up relevant materials and bring them for MONDAY as you will have a double period to work on this and I would like you to get some work done in those periods.

Canadian Government Confederation for Kids Link: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/index-e.html

Canadian Library & Archives Confederation Link: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/index-e.html

Shaw Members Research Site: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/cangovt.html

Canadiana Website: http://www.canadiana.ca/citm/themes/constitution/constitution13_e.html

Short YouTube film on Confederation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hph52hbhYZQ

** There will also be resources in the class to help you with your work.


If you haven't handed in your English - Earl Beatty Point of View paper OR Journal Reflection please make sure to do it on Monday. The instructions and questions are in the blog post from two days ago.

Have a great weekend all...and I look forward to seeing you on Monday! :) Ms.K

Mathletes hard at work

More teamwork and problem solving

Working out the square footage of some tiles

Adnan scrambling for a mustache

Ladies with attitude

BFF`s C.G & Renis

Saloon Boyz - Tomas, Justyn & Jackson

Me - Yes, I did wear this all day. My mustache`s name is Magnum - for those of you who know who he is. All I needed was a Hawaiian shirt and a red Ferrari and I`d be set!

Mo`Sistas - Sahifa & Aparajita

Too cool for skool Silver

Science Report Expectations, Questions and Concept Building Questions

The whole Movember Crew

Sparkle Queens - Fatima & Ayeesha

Academic Alex

Will with a skinny stache for the afternoon and Dennis with the BEST HAT EVER - MUSTACHE AND BEARD COMBO!

BFFL`S Martina & Nicole

Mhogan

Terry & Bory trying to out-stache each other!