International Beaver Day, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Journal Response, Inference work in action, homework

After we move ahead in History, this news story will be an important item for understanding our Big Idea for this year.  I don't want to spoil the secret quite yet, but this fella plays an important role.

http://www.thestar.com/life/2015/04/07/april-7-is-official-day-for-pretty-much-everything.html

http://www.beaversww.org/about-us/international-beaver-day/

This is one of our new reads for this portion of the year:

Here is a list of the habits, along with an image from the book:

copied from http://fremdeng.ning.com/profiles/blogs/7-habits-of-highly-effective-teens

This book works well with a second part of a journal exercise we are working on from yesterday.  Here are our completed observations of the handout, along with a response I did for the class:

This response is now for homework and due tomorrow.

I took some shots of 7B working on an inferencing exercise.  It is the same one that 7A worked on, earlier in the week.

Image up on the screen

Sheet separating observations from inferences

Avery pointing at....

...the image, behind Cameron.

homework
- Diorama + cue card with sentences describing the scene
- Journal from "Some important thoughts to ensure success"