Week of November 15th

Last week we created and presented a Remembrance Day reading of Col. John McCrae's In Flanders Field. Here's the video:

Music Credit: Sofdu Unga Astin Min (Iceland) - On a Starry Night - Lullabies from Around the World
Image Sources:
Canadian Press

Flandersfieldsmusic.com

Ottawacitizen.com

Somersetbirder.co.uk

Theguardian.com

Anyimages.info

Army.gov.au

Math
We will end our math unit with a measurement test on Monday.
Beginning Tuesday, Mr. Thai will be teaching the next unit on Geometry

Language
We read this article last week. Please remember to:
1. Underline any challenging or unknown words/phrases
2. Write a summary of the article
3. Write an opinion paragraph about the issue. Use evidence from the text and your own ideas to support your point of view.

On Monday, bring your writing to work on in the afternoon.
Opinion and summary will be due on Tuesday

Science
We had fun with those Jeopardy questions last week. Hope you remember the functions of the cell.
We'll look at unicelluar organisms and begin preparing our next lab report

Geography
Same as last week -- since we used Geography time for our Remembrance Day presentation last week

Important Dates:
Grade 8 PCI IB Presentation - November 20th
Grade 8 visit to PCI - November 27th - AM
Progress Reports Home - December 10th