Social Studies

In Social Studies, we are learning about Egyptians and how their lifestyle was. What they did in the daily basis, what food they eat, how they managed their time, what technology they had back then, and many other cool things. We also got talked about mummifying and embalming the bodies of the dead, and what they had to go through before they could go to their afterlife.  We talked about how Osiris, the God of the underworld who determined who goes to the afterlife. What he does is he weight the heart vs. the soul using a scale, and if the heart is lighter than the soul, that means you had a good life, but if the soul is heavier that means you didn’t have a good life. 

There were a lot of things that we learned that it got me interesting, such as:

·   -      How they build the pyramid

·        - Scribes

·     -   Papyrus

·     -    Solar boats

·   -      Hieroglyphs 

But there was one thing that I really liked, that is the Zenet (S). Zenet was basically their kind of like our chess, a game board for the rich Egyptians. They used Zenet when they have spare times so they have something to do. We got to try and we actually played the game with a partner one time and my partner was Amrit, and it was really fun. I think Zenet is very interesting because it’s a game where you really have to think, just like the game, chess

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Hello 8A!
Today, I will be talking about the rock climbing wall in the gym.
Recently, the school has purchased a rock climbing wall, it was instaled yesterday and we already got to use it! The wall is ten feet tall with different colour holds. Some clours represent different things like for example: The reds are the hardest to climb, some colours may all be foot holds while others would be hand holds. I am not to sure what many others think of this but I think there are pros and cons to this.
Pros:
-Mrs.Langstaff said this could
be in our fitness test.
-Also, if this could be interpreted into our
warm-up I think it could be lots of fun.
Cons:
-I think this could take away from other fun
activities, an example would be personally,
I would rather rally in badminton then climb
the wall for half of class.
-I also think that the money used for a wall could
have of been spent for different types of
equipment.

Overall, I think this is one of those things that will turn out to be what you make of it. Even though it is small and seems a bit childish you can still have fun on it! I am sure that all the younger kids enjoy it a lot more then anyone else and hat is probably the primary target to the gym teachers. I hope that in the future maybe they could add it either longer or higher but for now its a great start to something new at St. Maurice school.

                     THANK YOU FOR WATCHING/LISTINING

ELA comic

ELA comic

In ELA we are to do a comic on The Hobbit. It is due on Wednesday April 9th. The comic strip is to be between chapters 10-13 and just one scene within the chapters. The comic could be a parody, or you could change point of view of character. The comic has to include the following,

• 6 panels
• printed or drawn pictures
• if needed a sentence or two about the picture to clarify for others

The comic could be in point of view of an enemy, or could be in the point of view of another character, for example in point of view of the Goblin King. 
The marking break down is

• the story line /3                         
• neatness /3
• clarity /3
• length /3
• total /12

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SMS Pep-Rally

          On March 28^th, 2014 we had a pep-rally for our competitive boys and girls teams. Grades 5-8, I think, came to watch teachers give speeches about how well they did this season and how proud they were. We also saw the team come up and lift their newly received banners into the air with confidence and joy just to show it. After all the speeches were made, all the pictures were taken, and the lifting up of the banners was done, the teams decided to play a short and fun game. The audience for this game was only the 7’s and 8’s because it was the end of the day for the grades in elementary watching.

            

          This was actually a fun game to watch because they mixed up both teams. Both teams did play well and could tell they were also having a blast playing with their friends while more friends were cheering. One thing I’ll remember from the match though was Patrick screaming really high-pitched for the ball and him LeBroning. Just for people who don’t know what it is, it’s where to lightly touch another player and then fall to the ground either acting angry or acting like you’re injured. Sadly I don’t remember who won so I also don’t remember the score either. Overall though, it was an awesome first prep-rally for me and we got to skip 8^th period that day.   

  

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Helen Unit Math Test April 10

Math Unit Test

         The math unit test will be on ratios, rates, and proportional reasoning. The test will be on April 7, 2014. For ratios you will need to know that there will be two-term ratio, three term ratios, part to whole ratios, and part-to-part ratios on the test. For rates you will also need to know a rate is a comparison of 2 qualities measured in different units. A rate cannot be expressed as a percent because a percent is a ratio that compares qualities expressed in the same unit. A rate cannot be expressed as a percent because a percent is a ratio that compares qualities.

A unit rate is a rate in which the second term is 1.Porportional reasoning is when two qualities always have the same relative size. On the test there will be short answer, long answer, multiple choice, and matching. For the short answers there will be rate problems. You will also need to bring a pencil, loose leaf, a calculator, and an eraser. Good Luck!!!

                                                                                                                                 

 

ReliGion

         In religion this year we are learning to be good people and not be a disappointment and aslo learning how to spell things in class correctly. I am skipping this because I treat it as the storage you don't get. we are learning about THE Saints and the or some of the sacraments. And (I think ) we have a test for the last few chapters also we are is having project in science.
I did my home work yesterday and it was for religion (yeah i can use that)

         We had home work it was about the church of the last 1000 years and for this one I had my textbook and I did during french. So I did all or most of my homework and I lost my USB . And in the homework there was saints. Also I am still looking for it.

SS Project - Egypt Poems

  Our class was assigned a new project in Social Studies yesterday (on April 7th, 2014). We must invent a cinquain and title poem. Ms. Costanzo has done this project before, but this time around we have to build a 3-D scene on what our poems are about. In previous years, the students simply had to draw a picture of their poem. The due date is on April 29th, and the outline and marking rubric has not been created. It would be a good idea to begin working on finishing this project early, as we have another project coming up in Health.

  The poems we write must both be on one topic about Egypt. The topic must be a noun. The first type of poem, cinquain, must have five lines. The first being the topic, the second with two adjectives describing it, the third including three verbs ending with the suffix -ing, the fourth having a sentence that describes your chosen topic, and, lastly, the fifth a synonym for your subject. Your second poem, the title poem, consists of the same number of lines as the amount of letters your topic consists of. In order to spell your topic, each line should begin with the next letter of your subject. Once you have finished your poems, it would be a good idea to get it checked by Ms. Costanzo. 

"Pyramids." Photograph. Teach in Egypt. TeachAwayInc. April 4, 2014.
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