There are a total of six students from Room 52 who are taking Band class, twice a week. I am very happy to see that they took the initiative, and risk, to audition for the program. Congratulations go out to Jennifer, Stavroula, George, Mathew, Steven and Nick.
This morning the students watched the speeches from the candidates running for Student Council. Here are some photos:
All students who were present in class voted today. The results will be announced on Monday.
The class has been preparing for today's Math test. Most members of the class prepared a Study Sheet which, I hope, they studied from. I graded all the Study Sheets and provided detail feedback of where they went wrong. They were -- as an accommodation -- allowed to use it during the test to make reference to it.
If students had difficulty on the test, they will have an opportunity to make corrections to their tests to receive partial marks. I have referred to this process as a Rewrite.
Here is an image of one of the students working on a group study sheet. They worked in groups to assist one another in consolidating what they know about the three methods we have learned so far this term.
We had Learning/Reading Buddies yesterday. It is interesting to watch the two groups work together. We assisted them with mapping out the life cycle of a pumpkin:
Some groups had a lot of fun:
I am very pleased with the ideas the class is generating for their Ideal Society/Community project. I am taking it very slow and explaining what "Success Criteria" I am looking for in the assignment. Each student was given a list of what they should have in his or her project. I have had each student hand in a rough copy and provided them with feedback of what they should do next. I planned to share an example I created, but I decided to hold off on that for this week; that would have amounted to too much information.
We started to watch the 1954 version of Animal Farm as an example of a utopia gone horribly wrong. We talked a little bit about dis as a prefix and how it shows up in words like: disintegrate, dislocate, and discontinue. Here is the link to the film on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047834/
Have a great weekend.
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