Gym            In gym class we are doing badminton. At the beginning of class we have to jog around the gym for 5 minutes and then we grab a racket and a partner and practice our shots and serves like the short serve or backhand serve and the long serve. We also learned how to hold our racket when we do certain shots like if you need to hit the birdie far, put your thumb on the back to give it more power to go farther. Near the end of class we do games like doubles kings court or singles, or we just try to rally.            A climbing wall was also added to the gym the other day. We haven’t climbed it yet but we will get to climb it during our next gym class. It isn’t that tall but it is wide. We also finished our fitness testing a few classes ago too. We were tested on our vertical jump, how many sit ups you can do in a minute, how many pushups and pull ups you can do, we did the beep test, and we also did some more tests.

Science

Right now in science we are studying optics. We have learned about how light reflect off objects and some colours are absorbed and some aren’t. We have looked at the electromagnetic spectrum and the different levels of radiation, with radio waves being on the far left of the spectrum (lowest level) and gamma rays being at the far right of the spectrum (highest level). The levels of the light waves are measured in two ways. The wave length which is the distance between two crests, and the frequency which is how many waves pass a given point in a certain amount of time.

We have also looked at different sources of light. For example, bioluminescence. This is where living creatures naturally contain a source of light, somewhere on or in their body. We have also checked out different types of light bulbs, how they work and the pros and cons of them. Later in the unit we will learn about eyes and how they work.

Kaleab 8B

ELA BLOG

In ELA we are doing poster project with a partner which is due by the end of the month. We have to take 6 jobs (3 jobs each) from the cast of the movie The Hobbit and we have to explain their jobs and put it on a poster. We have also been working on Latin and Greek words and we learned how to figure out if a word is Latin or Greek. We have just recently done prefixes and suffix’s also, where we look at the beginning and ending of each word. We have also learned about the gold rush in a story in our textbook. We found out that The Hobbit and the Gold Rush are very similar.

We have been reading The Hobbit for a while and we are now done. It was an interesting story that I actually enjoyed. We also have to make a plot diagram and for every chapter and write a description of the chapter. We will be having a test soon which will bring an end to The Hobbit.

Social Studies

                In social studies we are rapping things up with the Egypt unit. With have a test next Wednesday and a big project due on the 29^th. For the project, we have to do a cinquain poem and a title poem that relates to Egypt.  A cinquain poem goes like this…

Line1: A noun

Line2: Two adjectives

Line 3: Three -ing words

Line 4: A phrase

Line 5: Another word for the noun

A title poem goes like this…

Powerful

Athletic

Tall

Rice is my best friend

Interesting

Cool…lol jk

Kind…Sike

After we have finished the poems, we have to make a mini structure thing that relates to the poems we done.  Ex: if you did a poem about a pyramid, then you make a pyramid out of lego blocks or something

Badminton! By: Kim

Badminton

            For badminton I am in girls doubles. My partner is Amy. We had our in-school tournament last week and Amy and I made the team! Only two doubles can make the team. The other team is Angelica and Sukhsagar. All the categories consist of Grade 7 girls doubles, girls’ singles, boys’ doubles, boys’ singles, and mixed doubles. For Grade 8 it is the same team categories.

            We have practices on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each practices we begin with five minutes of running, and stretches. Our coach is Ms. Lantin who is the guidance counselor. The tournaments start off with round robin and go on to the finals. The winners get a media and if you make it to the finals you get a certificate.

                                                             ELA Blog             

            In ELA, we are reading The Hobbit, written by J.R.R. Tolken. The Hobbit is about a dragon named Smaug who stole A LOT of treasure from the dwarves. Then the dwarves, a Hobbit named Bilbo, and a Wizard named Gandalf travel to Lonely Mountain to get the treasure back. Unfortunately, for the dwarves the wizard has to leave them because he had to take care of some business back Home. 

We had finished watching the first Hobbit movie, “An Unexpected Journey”.  We are almost done reading the book and we are now making a comic for a couple of chapters.  The comic is due on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. We will watch the last Hobbit movie after we have finished reading the book.

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On March 26, 2014 the girl’s competitive basketball team brought home the championship M.C.S.A.A banner and trophy. On March 21^st we played against Holy Ghost (semifinals). It was a very stressful game because they were only down by 2 points and there was a minute left. We had our top 3 players fouled out and crying on the bench because we didn’t know what was going to happen at the end but our players worked together and led us to the semis. We couldn’t have done it without the crowd, our top player (Alycia) and the big shot that lead us to the finals by Shayla.

 

Malory

Malory Alimario

ICT

In social studies we are learning about Ancient Egyptian culture. We had previously had a test and quiz on their landscape and how it helps to protect them. We also learned about some of the kings and queens. Hatshepsut is one of the queens who dressed as a man for tradition. And we also learnt about Narmer. He is known for bringing Upper and Lower Egypt together. He is called ‘the wearer of both crowns’ and other names.

 We began talking about our new term project. We are to make two poems, a title and cinquian poems about an Egyptian artifact or of well-known people of Egypt (Osiris, Isis, etc.) After writing our poems we are supposed to build whatever we made our poem about. For example, if you did a pyramid poem you are to build the pyramid with scenery that goes along with it with a lot of detail.