Lundi, apres la neige, le soleil.

Today, Monsieur Wanie's classes worked on their "Geographie, Chapitre 8". Students engaged in a paragraph by paragraph reading/note-taking exercise.

Hopefully students have been checking the blog and following the links related to the chapter.

Students in 87 also worked on their Superhero assignment. 86 will get more time tomorrow...

Samedi, un peu de neige!

So, students are probably out tobogganing today, or at least they should be! It's nice and snowy out!

Anyway, here's a great youtube explaining the history of 200 countries over 200 years of development. It shows the effect of wars, the industrial revolution, AIDS, and more! Students, watch this video if you can. Pay attention to the axes (pronounced ax-ees) of life expectancy and income.

Copy and paste this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&feature=player_embedded

Or this one:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/best-four-minutes-human-development-ever-watch-20101217-144340-739.html

And have a great (and safe) weekend!

Vendredi d'une longue semaine.

So, today is finally Friday. Did it feel like a long week back or what!?

The day didn't start well for 87. Many students were late to class after swimming. Strange that it takes students more than 15 minutes to get changed! It's not like you're picking which outfit to wear to the dance!!! Get to class!

Anyway, class 86 continued working on their superhero art assignment and handed-in their "A l'aeroport" folders. Then in the afternoon, the worked on a short "Geographie" reading assignment. This particular unit talks about poverty in the world, so here's an interesting news bit for those who missed the new-found fame of Ted Williams...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110107/ts_yblog_thelookout/beyond-ted-williams-a-community-with-few-second-chances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPFvLUWkzs

Jeudi, le ciel bleu mais la neige arrive.

Today, students in 86 and 87 had a period to work on their superhero posters.

As well, Monsieur Wanie led a class discussion on the possible reasons poverty exists and the quality of life discrepancy between North America and Africa.

And Marci came in to talk to students about their high school choices, their applications etc.

Not a very eventful day, but one full of work and responsibilities.

Mercredi, le froid mais le ciel bleu.

Today, 86 and 87 handed-in their "Geographie, Chapitre 7" units... well most students did!

Anyway, both classes also started on their superhero art assignment, one class went to the library to use the computers to research their hero, the other class had the research to do for homework, due tomorrow.

As well today, students in 86 and 87 worked on a bristol board assignment for Mr Erlich. It was based on some questions and a discussion about students' needs in development as 13-year-olds and what an ideal middle school consists of... some really smart and some very interesting answers! What a fun assignment!

Mardi, deux centimetres de neige.

This morning, 87 began reading the second of two French novels.

Both classes had their "Geographie, Chapitre 6" handed back as "Chapitre 7" is due tomorrow!

As well, Monsieur Wanie held a class discussion on "Chapitre 8" about world patterns of rich and poor, Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index, explaining poverty by looking at the past. In this chapter, students will be looking further into weak economies and exploding populations as well as a case study on Sub-Saharan Africa...

Lundi, une nouvelle annee!

Hey, it's a new year... Hopefully, everyone had a great two weeks of time away from Winona. And now it's back to work! The school year is almost half done and reports come out in a little less than a month!

So today, students worked on their French folders, due on Friday; the "Geographie, Chapitre 7", due on Wednesday; and the reading novels!

This week, students start on "Histoire"! Yay!

Well, that's it for the first post of the New Year, welcome back everyone!

PS, we need this guy to come in and build us a proper doorway bridge!
He's cool and he really knows his stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYCDz2a7XI