It's already December!
All this week we are investigating the importance of healthy eating. Lisa and Nav are registered dietitians helping us through not just the Canadian Food Guide, but the reasons behind it. Lisa and Nav are the experts in the classroom!
Dinner with the Junior Girls
Tuesday night, all of the elementary teachers were invited to the Junior Girls' residence for supper. We made homemade lasagna using my secret sauce recipe. Although the oven took forever to bake dinner, and we had a lock down practice, dinner turned out to be fantastic!
Around the table from left to right: Helen, Mr. Di Donato,Jessica, Rebecca, Emma, Maggie, Abbie, Molly D., Sarah, Mrs. LeSage, Bella (pink shirt by couch)
Sagonaska Works Out at Belleville Crossfit
Our class (minus Maggie who went with the grade 8's) on the way! Don't worry, we were parked when I snapped this one!
Students working hard through their workout!
Students learning the proper form of the burpee!
While at the Crossfit gym, Coach Bowman warmed the students up, taught them proper form and technique, then put them through a workout. The work out consisted of 15 squats, 15 burpees, 15 sit ups and 15 push ups. Most students did at least three rounds! We have some seriously fit kids!
Goals
I am almost through reading diagnostic assessments with the students. That means, our reading goals are changing! We have made a system where students can see their progress because we have kept the achieved goals behind the current goals.
We have new writing goals too! We are currently writing scripts to perform for the Holiday Extravaganza on December 17! Students are learning about the importance of descriptive writing with lots of organization, focus, descriptive details all in order to produce a clear mental image for our audience.
This is the descriptive writing matrix that allows students to self assess their writing. They also use this success criteria to help each other bump up their work.
We are working through the math problem solving framework which was created right here at Sagonaksa by our very own Mr. Richardson and Mr. Brown!
So far the students in grade 7 have investigated the first 4 sections. Next week we will be working though the last two parts! This framework allows students to plan exactly how they will solve problems in math!
