What we did: Today, we had a substitude named Mr. Miller, I think, instead of Ms.Lees because she had to go to an appointment. Today, we pretty much just played catch up. We worked on our Pathways notes, and we finished our questions for the First Night.
Why we did it: Pathways Notes- It's to learn how to take notes the proper way or different ways. Apparently, we were suppose to hand it in today but most of us aren't still done.
First Night Questions: It was to learn how to take notes from a question throughout the movie. We had questions on a sheet of paper about the movie "First Night" we were watching. But througout the movie, it is going to take too long to answer the questions in a complete phrase right away so Ms.Lees said that we can take notes and write comploete sentences seperately.
Connections & Reflections: They were both basically to learn about writing notes and different types of ways to write notes.
Events: ........ HAPPY HOLIDAYS GUYS! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Thrusday December 15
What we did today
Block 1: Today we did a practice geography challenge. We only did three rounds, each round consisting on ten questions. The questions were based on Canadian history. Most of them asked for the names of people or places an event took place. Once we were done the rounds, we went over the answers. Afterwards we got our novels and spent the rest of the block reading.
Block 2: We had some more time to read. After ten or twenty minutes we went into the groups based on the book we read. Ms. Lees then explained that we had to make a history web based on the book we were reading. Today though we only needed do the headings. Before class was about to end we discussed the learning intention for today's activities.
Purpose
Block 1: The mock geography challenge was supposed give an idea on what the actual geography challenge is like. At the same time we are learning about the history of Canada. We were given time to read in class because in block two we needed to read the book before we can do the actual headings.
Block 2: We were given more time to read so we have enough background knowledge to make the headings for the web. The reason we were put in groups based on the book was to work on our collaborating skills with other people. This way it is easier to discuss what the headings we should have. The whole purpose of the web though was to make the history easier to process than reading a list. We discussed the learning intention for what we did today because our blogs seem to have shallow learning intentions.
Connections and Reflections
I honestly did not know anything about the people or history of Canada, so the entire thing was very confusing for me. It is good to learn about the history of the country you are living in. The geography challenge reminds me more of a Canadian history contest than a geography contest. I am glad we went over the first couple of rounds so I know where I am at, and what to brace myself for later on.
I prefer reading a book then reading a textbook even if the book is history based. Textbooks can be dreadfully dull. You don't laugh at a textbook, or cry at the end of a textbook. If you are becoming an author the setting of a place is very important. Your characters will be shaped from the setting, and your story will be shaped too. If your story takes place in a modern day, then the characters will mostly likely have never met or encountered Ancient Romans.
Making a history web is better than a report because you will have to be extremely fussy about grammar. We only did the headings because we only read so much of the book, and can't make a proper web yet. Though if we had lots of informations to process, then a web is that best way to do it since you can find the sections easily. This is true in buisness because you only have so much time to present your idea. If you use a web as a visual aid then it is easier to connect it to your other ideas for people to understand.
The learning intention, is like the reason to do something. If you are learning biology, than the purpose is for you to know biology to become a doctor.
Homework: Read your novel!
Events: Pancake breakfast tommorow at 7 am! Bring food bank items
Jessica is posting on Friday
Block 1: Today we did a practice geography challenge. We only did three rounds, each round consisting on ten questions. The questions were based on Canadian history. Most of them asked for the names of people or places an event took place. Once we were done the rounds, we went over the answers. Afterwards we got our novels and spent the rest of the block reading.
Block 2: We had some more time to read. After ten or twenty minutes we went into the groups based on the book we read. Ms. Lees then explained that we had to make a history web based on the book we were reading. Today though we only needed do the headings. Before class was about to end we discussed the learning intention for today's activities.
Purpose
Block 1: The mock geography challenge was supposed give an idea on what the actual geography challenge is like. At the same time we are learning about the history of Canada. We were given time to read in class because in block two we needed to read the book before we can do the actual headings.
Block 2: We were given more time to read so we have enough background knowledge to make the headings for the web. The reason we were put in groups based on the book was to work on our collaborating skills with other people. This way it is easier to discuss what the headings we should have. The whole purpose of the web though was to make the history easier to process than reading a list. We discussed the learning intention for what we did today because our blogs seem to have shallow learning intentions.
Connections and Reflections
I honestly did not know anything about the people or history of Canada, so the entire thing was very confusing for me. It is good to learn about the history of the country you are living in. The geography challenge reminds me more of a Canadian history contest than a geography contest. I am glad we went over the first couple of rounds so I know where I am at, and what to brace myself for later on.
I prefer reading a book then reading a textbook even if the book is history based. Textbooks can be dreadfully dull. You don't laugh at a textbook, or cry at the end of a textbook. If you are becoming an author the setting of a place is very important. Your characters will be shaped from the setting, and your story will be shaped too. If your story takes place in a modern day, then the characters will mostly likely have never met or encountered Ancient Romans.
Making a history web is better than a report because you will have to be extremely fussy about grammar. We only did the headings because we only read so much of the book, and can't make a proper web yet. Though if we had lots of informations to process, then a web is that best way to do it since you can find the sections easily. This is true in buisness because you only have so much time to present your idea. If you use a web as a visual aid then it is easier to connect it to your other ideas for people to understand.
The learning intention, is like the reason to do something. If you are learning biology, than the purpose is for you to know biology to become a doctor.
Homework: Read your novel!
Events: Pancake breakfast tommorow at 7 am! Bring food bank items
Jessica is posting on Friday
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
What we did
Today we did a survey thing about seven books that we had to write about on this sheet you would rate it out of 10 rate its reading level to your reading level and give a reason why we rated it.
we didn't do much today.
Why We Did
So we can pick a book to read over winter break
Homework
No Homework
Upcoming events
Spelling bee after school today
Pancake breakfest on friday morning
Monday, December 12, 2011
What We Did
Why We Did It
We did it to try to improve our group discussion.
Homework
We had no homework today
Upcoming events
Spelling bee after school today
Pancake breakfest on friday morning
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Friday December 9
Since Justin didn't post for Friday, I will post.
What we did:
On Friday we did the verbal spelling bee. The whole class had to participate, and be the end of the third round we got our top five finalists. There was another two rounds to decide on the subsitute speller. These people will participate at the school spelling bee next Monday afterschool. After the class spelling bee, we watched the rest of the movie, First Knight. Where we left off, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere were put on a public trail for kissing in front of King Arthur. All of the sudden Malagant's army attacks Camelot. Malagant tries to make King Arthur bow to him, but after a long suspenseful pause he yells attack and Camelot fights Malagant's army. Arthur got shoot, Lancelot and Malagant have a long swordfight, and everyone was stabbing each other. Lancelot killed Malagant on the throne, and everyone from Malagant's army retreated or got killed. Then they show a scene where Arthur is about to die, Guinevere weeps, and Arthur says his last words to Lancelot and Guinevere. Arthur dies, and then set out to sea. He is then set on fire, in the sunset.
Why we did it
We did the spelling bee because the class had to participate. We watch First knight so we can answer the questions based on the movie.
Reflections and Connections
The spelling bee is a good way to get people excited over something that many people would consider boring. That way people won't have to always use spell check. Making a competition out of spelling is very smart because now we will have more people learning the english language properly. The movie First Knight had a lot of background history to it. The movie can be used to show the kinds of religon they had a long time ago, as well as what were the living conditions, and morals at that time. The movie also made me realized how much we have advance. We have electricity, and batteries, while they only have fire.
Homework
First Knight Questions
Upcoming events
Canspell on Monday
Pancake Breakfast on Friday
Justin will be posting on Monday and Tuesday.
What we did:
On Friday we did the verbal spelling bee. The whole class had to participate, and be the end of the third round we got our top five finalists. There was another two rounds to decide on the subsitute speller. These people will participate at the school spelling bee next Monday afterschool. After the class spelling bee, we watched the rest of the movie, First Knight. Where we left off, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere were put on a public trail for kissing in front of King Arthur. All of the sudden Malagant's army attacks Camelot. Malagant tries to make King Arthur bow to him, but after a long suspenseful pause he yells attack and Camelot fights Malagant's army. Arthur got shoot, Lancelot and Malagant have a long swordfight, and everyone was stabbing each other. Lancelot killed Malagant on the throne, and everyone from Malagant's army retreated or got killed. Then they show a scene where Arthur is about to die, Guinevere weeps, and Arthur says his last words to Lancelot and Guinevere. Arthur dies, and then set out to sea. He is then set on fire, in the sunset.
Why we did it
We did the spelling bee because the class had to participate. We watch First knight so we can answer the questions based on the movie.
Reflections and Connections
The spelling bee is a good way to get people excited over something that many people would consider boring. That way people won't have to always use spell check. Making a competition out of spelling is very smart because now we will have more people learning the english language properly. The movie First Knight had a lot of background history to it. The movie can be used to show the kinds of religon they had a long time ago, as well as what were the living conditions, and morals at that time. The movie also made me realized how much we have advance. We have electricity, and batteries, while they only have fire.
Homework
First Knight Questions
Upcoming events
Canspell on Monday
Pancake Breakfast on Friday
Justin will be posting on Monday and Tuesday.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Admin
I made Jessica admin, as you can see because I want to give more people a chance make changes to the blog. Justin and Chase do you guys want to be admin too? If I make you admin I expect you to go on the blog more often. The same goes for the other admin. It can be so depressing to go on the blog and find that hardly anyone replies to your post. Do you think I should revoke myself as admin?
Posting Orders
Congrat's Jessica I'm making you admin. Here are the posting orders.
Monday-Justin
Tuesday-Justin
Thursday-June
Friday-Jessica
Monday-Justin
Tuesday-Justin
Thursday-June
Friday-Jessica
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sorry for posting this so late.
What we did: Today, we watched a movie I think it was called " The First Night". It was a story about King Arthur but I don't know which one because there were several other King Arthurs. Anyways, it's about how somebody was jealous about King Arthur'a wiseness and richness, etc. And he wanted all that. So they start a war for it. We had to write a worksheet about it. You can write it notes first then write it in full paragraph for homework.
Learning Intentions: You can learn more about the middle Easterns and about their religion. It was also a good practice for taking notes in alot of differnt type of ways.
Connection or reflection: Middle Easterns: You might write an exam about Middle easterns so this would be a good practice study.
Notes: If you have a test coming up and your teacher`s explaining the test, you can learn to write notes about it so you can study really well.
Tips: PRACTICE FOR THE CLASS CANSPELL SPELLINGBEE...TOMORROW!
Homework: Canspell spellingbee tomorrow!!!
portfolios HAS GOT to be done!
Upcoming events: CANSPELL SPELLING BEE TOMORROW!!
Pancake breakfast is next Friday.
What we did: Today, we watched a movie I think it was called " The First Night". It was a story about King Arthur but I don't know which one because there were several other King Arthurs. Anyways, it's about how somebody was jealous about King Arthur'a wiseness and richness, etc. And he wanted all that. So they start a war for it. We had to write a worksheet about it. You can write it notes first then write it in full paragraph for homework.
Learning Intentions: You can learn more about the middle Easterns and about their religion. It was also a good practice for taking notes in alot of differnt type of ways.
Connection or reflection: Middle Easterns: You might write an exam about Middle easterns so this would be a good practice study.
Notes: If you have a test coming up and your teacher`s explaining the test, you can learn to write notes about it so you can study really well.
Tips: PRACTICE FOR THE CLASS CANSPELL SPELLINGBEE...TOMORROW!
Homework: Canspell spellingbee tomorrow!!!
portfolios HAS GOT to be done!
Upcoming events: CANSPELL SPELLING BEE TOMORROW!!
Pancake breakfast is next Friday.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
What we did today
At the beginning of class today, we practiced our spelling by doing a mini spelling bee. We used words from all age categories. The class also worked on our note taking by watching a short clip made to give us information and a basic idea about the middle ages. As the clip was playing the class also had to take notes in a t chart form. One side had "Main Ideas" and the other had "Details". We made the notes like this because the way we usually made our notes took too much time to make while watching the clip. We also learned how to make something such as "In the mall there were 100 teenagers." into point form like, "Mall had 100 teens inside."
Connections and Reflections
The mini spelling bee was good practice and in my opinion it was really fun. In addition it really helped but was some what tricky. I also thought that the note taking was useful because I believe that every student should know how to take notes in different forms to graduate. It is because note taking is extremely useful when you are in university and when you are studying for a test. Also the main idea and detail sheet was very useful because it was a fast and efficient way to take short quick notes. It also is short enough to give you a basic understanding of the whole idea of the topic.
Learning Intention
Later on in university we will need the skill to take notes. For instance when the professor is talking you can't write down everything he says but only the parts that will give you a good understanding of the topic. The note taking also helps us study for tests and quizzes. Furthermore, the mini spelling bee will help us with our spelling and give us a slight understanding of what a real spelling bee is like.
Tip/Reminder
IT IS MANDATORY FOR EVERY STUDENT TO HAVE 50 MINUTES OF FLEX TIME PER WEEK!
Homework
Friday-Spelling Bee. Practice! Practice! Practice!
Port Folios-Should have been done by now
QAR if not completed
Upcoming events
Spelling Bee-Friday
Pancake breakfast next Friday
Band Concert 12/13/2011
Flex time on Thursday
Monday, December 5, 2011
Blog makeover
I gave the blog a new makeover! I based the background on the poll results. (Only 2 peopled actually voted) If you don't like this background then leave a comment about what you want for the background or anything else you want to improve on this blog!
WHAT WE DID:
Today in humanities, we worked on our note taking for the pathways, and Ms Lees said that we will have time to work on it tommorow. We did outline, web and some people got to cornan note taking, And after that, we have to go to flex if we dont finish it.
WHY WE DID THIS:
WE did this because it is good to learn how to note take and will go with us all the way to grade 12 and higher. Its good because it will capture the main points when we read a story, and will help when we have a test, because it will prevent us from reading every single little detail.
CONNECTIONS:
We will use note taking all the way to grade 12 and past that. It will help us on tests.
HOMEWORK:
No homework other then the can spell spelling bee is this friday
CHASE,
Today in humanities, we worked on our note taking for the pathways, and Ms Lees said that we will have time to work on it tommorow. We did outline, web and some people got to cornan note taking, And after that, we have to go to flex if we dont finish it.
WHY WE DID THIS:
WE did this because it is good to learn how to note take and will go with us all the way to grade 12 and higher. Its good because it will capture the main points when we read a story, and will help when we have a test, because it will prevent us from reading every single little detail.
CONNECTIONS:
We will use note taking all the way to grade 12 and past that. It will help us on tests.
HOMEWORK:
No homework other then the can spell spelling bee is this friday
CHASE,
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Posting Orders
Since nobody seems to go on the blog that much I took the liberty of making this week's posting orders.
Monday Chase
Tuesday Justin
Thursday Jessica
Friday June
If you have problems with this schedule then comment on this post.
Monday Chase
Tuesday Justin
Thursday Jessica
Friday June
If you have problems with this schedule then comment on this post.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
What we did
Today in humanities It was a double block
BLOCK ONE: We worked on our note taking skills by working on the text book (we had to do an outline for page 9-20, a web for 21-29 ,) Then for the kids who didn't know how to do time zones Mrs.lees brought up a table and taught them until break
BLOCK TWO: The kids Mrs.Lees were teaching went back to finish the rest of the lesson for five minutes or so. Meanwhile the rest of us were still working on our note taking skills....still waiting for conformance's. For the last twenty minutes we practiced our can spell, Boys Vs Girls heated up in the competition my awesomeness got in the way so I didn't win....neither did the boys. So congrats girls!
Why we did it
The learning intention of Mrs.lees teaching the kids was so they would understand timezone's because you needed that skill for the test (that's coming up on well tomorrow.) The learning intention for the note taking was to improve our note taking skills.
Connections
(For note taking skills) If your in collage and your professor is explaining useful information your going to use you not taking skills to make good notes.
Homework
Study for tomorrows test
Tips
Study for tomorrows test
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