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.

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

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,

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.

today in humanities we had a geography test. For thos who didnt finish you have to go on monday before or after school and i think you need to make an appointment

.....Chase

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