Blackout in Effect

Hello All! As promised I decided to do a little post this evening. I still don't feel right and my ear is still plugged, ringing and hurting. I will be at work tomorrow ready to go, and hopefully the blockage in my ear will clear in the next few days like my doctor said it will.

Today we hosted a bunch of teachers and did a lesson on proportional reasoning involving rate. A lot of you figured out the answer, and it was nice to see so many theories and ideas emerging from you all. Great work everyone. Below you will see some pictures of what went on, I'm just sorry we didn't have enough time for you all to present your results to the class. Tomorrow, we will talk a little about the lesson and then finish up our Patterning and Algebra unit. No homework for math tonight (lucky you!). There will be some tomorrow. Math from Friday afternoon was p.410 & 411 #1-13, I will be checking it tomorrow.

In the afternoon there was Science to read and go through. Mr. Corby led you through some reading and then assigned two batches of questions to answer while in class today. #1-4 on both worksheets. Hopefully all of you worked on your Science and have no homework this evening because you used your class time effectively and handed in your work before heading home.

On Thursday when you had a supply teacher you had a reflection question to answer, some of you have requested that I post this on the blog. So here it is:

In the film "Pleasantville" the story is filled with many instances of symbolism and irony. Choose 3 scenes, images or symbols from the story that represent symbolism and irony. Explain why you think these ideas are relevant and expand on that idea by making text to text, text to self and text to real world connections.

Other students who missed the film will be asked to look at this commercial below from American Express and make connections. Is there any symbolism going on there? What about irony? Pick three instances and write about them.

Tomorrow we have Growth and Development in the morning, and then we will have a regular afternoon. I am hoping my ear gets cleared up soon...as my husband is losing patience with me and I am losing patience with everything else. Have a great night!

See you tomorrow!

Tommy and George presenting their table to Ms.Pyke the math coach for SE1

Rachelle & Sara with Ms.Pyke showing how they made a decision and then checked their work.

Some of the teachers observing in the classroom

Terry and Bory presenting their graph, and talking about their algebraic findings