Not Far Now!!

Hello 8O:

Not far now 8O, I now you have been working hard lately, well done! Let's make sure we keep it going for one more week! Putting in the hard work now will make year end, and transition to Grade 9 at VCI much easier - I promise!!

Finish Strong!
Mr. Keown

Back To School

Hi everyone, I will be at school tomorrow. I had a really good day at school on Thursday and thanks to everyone who helped me around the school ( Candace ) and thanks Mr. Oldcorn for visiting me ! and Kacee for my bunny and card. Nicole, the fruit basket is all gone and thanks for staying 1 night with me. It was really boring in the hospital I was there for about 7 days, I fainted 2 times, I had 3 IV's, I had antibiotics that took 2 hours to go through every 8 hours. I had blood taken 3 times but it was all worth it because I missed 2 days of school !! it's also worth it because now I'm all better and my foot is back to it's normal size ! Thanks to the nurses. I can't wait to see everyone.

Writing Prompts

Number one:
My legs were beginning to cramp as I sat motionless in my hiding place. I tried to slow my breathing, but I could hear my heartbeat drumming in my ears. I wondered if it could be heard in the deafening silence. I felt my calf muscle tighten painfully and as a reaction, I shifted my weight. The sound echoed and it was my fatal mistake…

Number two:
Sam felt the sun shining down on his shoulders while he sat happily by the stream. It was a perfect sunny day and luckily he was spending it with Sarah. Then, all at once Sarah pointed at the water. “Look Sam!” Sarah exclaimed. “It is a…”

Number three:
Write a story in which the main character accidentally sends a text message that was meant for another person.

Number four:
I thought I’d never see him/her again, but here he/she was….


…and you thought dragons didn’t exist

These prompts are borrowed from

http://mrsthackerenglish.blogspot.com/

Mathletics by Alex

Hi Mr. O I am number 31 on the top 100 students in Canada. It is kinda cool I have 1598 points.

Dividing Mixed Numbers

Poetry Slam 2011

My job for the 2011 poetry slam was music. My job required for me to be ready all the time to play music for the next speaker. I had to find music for the speakers that they would want to have played for them. The music I chose also had to be appropriate and be something that would keep the audience’s attention. It meant that I had to keep good tunes going the entire time and be prepared for the next speaker. It meant that people relied on me for their music. Being a music man felt like I ran the whole show! I was a DJ and I had freedom.

Poetry Slam

My job for the poetry slam was buying food and drinks, I thought I did a good job because everyone liked the selections that I bought. From what I saw the poetry slam went pretty good, everyone was having fun and enjoyed themselves. Everyone looked really good when they were all dressed up! and the music was pretty good. 

BY: MARISSA

Poetry Slam

To be an MC it took alot of brainstorming for nicknames and other things. To be a MC it meant that I would have to make nicknames at library class. To me being an MC felt okay because you had do it well or not do it at all.

ELA Slam

I thought the Poetry Slam was awesome, everyone got a chance to say their poem and have some fun. I think I pick the best job out of all if them. I was a Interviewer, who took the people out of the room and ask them questions. I thought this was the best job because you could really have fun with it. I thought the competitions in the intermissions was a great idea. Those competitions were probably the highlight of the Poetry Slam. I think the Poetry Slam was awesome and we should do it again.

Matt

ELA Slam!

Poetry Slam was a success in room 107 which combined with Mr.Wilson's class of 109. It twas the first and the only Poetry Slam of 2011.There were 4 M.C's (Carter Routledge, Wyatt Wilson, Kyle Braybrook, and Mackenzie Wooldridge). There was everything from dance compositions to cracker eating to singing. It was a slam!. The first person to say there poem was Colin Bender; who wrote a touching poem called the "Colin Bender Love Project", it cought the heart of veiwers. Ashley Blackshaw whent of the ordinary saying 3 poems instead 2, one which she wrote her very self which

Poetry Slam

In the Poetry Slam I was an evaluator. For this job you have to be fair and you can't just give your friends the high marks and the people you don't like a bad mark. Also when you are an evaluator it takes for you to be calm and take a couple minutes to think about their mark. To be an evaluator it is fun and you have a lot of pressure on you to give the mark.

Poetry Slam

My job was typing out a description of the poetry slam and the order of events. What it took to do this job was being able to be organized and being able to get it done on time to get it done on time. What it meant was coming up with a good description to get people excited and having the correct order so people know whats going on and when. To me it felt good because your giving people a way of knowing what's going on rather than leaving them clueless.

Being an M.C

It meant a lot to be an M.C because in T.U.S.C I never got to be the Chairperson. It made me feel like I was in charge of both of the classes. It felt pretty good, but I had to get up there first and talk so I was pretty nervous at the start, but I was not nervous after that. I think it took courage to get up in front of both of the class rooms.

Poetry Slam

My job was creating the outside of the Poetry Slam 2011 program. The outside had to include a colored hand drawn picture with a slogan. To do this job you definitely need to be creative. I felt proud of myself after making the program. I felt like the all the colors I used blended well, and the slogan was okay.

Poetry Slam

My job at Poetry Slam was to be a decorator/food bearer. My job was pretty easy to do. Marissa was kind enough to buy the food ahead of time, so I only had to help her set it out, and Room 109 was in charge of making the actual decorations. There were six different kinds of pop, and six different kinds of chips. Everyone was satisfied, as far as I could tell!

I feel like decorator was one of the really easy poetry slam jobs. I kind of wish I had been assigned a harder job! Maybe, just maybe, next time.

Poetry SLAM

My job a was to be a Music man for the slam. All it took was to get everyone's song, a Ipod, and speakers. It meant to me is that the Music Men had to bring the slam to life by playing good songs.
It felt good being the music man because I had fun playing the songs for everybody

poetry slam

I was the evaluator I liked the job that I did because I got to jug every body and it was a good way for people to hear your poems. every buddy did a good job for the poetry slam. we should do it or do some thing else like the poetry slam I was fun it is a LOT better then work.

Poetry Slam 2011!

I think the Poetry Slam went pretty good. Everyone did there part really well and everything did what they were told to do. Next year a suggestion would be to have the music people get music going faster and louder. To be an evaluator it took some effort because you had to be watching and listening very well so that you god judge everyone equally and positive. It felt pretty good to be and evaluator because you got to mark everyone and see what everyone got as a mark and how well everyone did! We also get to make the finally choice on who got which award for each category. Also I like being an evaluator because normally you don't get a chance to be one and i took the chance and I liked it!

Poetry Slam

I was an evaluator.

To be an evaluator I think that you have to pretend that your friends aren't your friends, because you might want to give them a better mark than they should really get.

I think that it meant that we had to pretend that you didn't know anyone in the room, and just give them the grade that they deserve.

I liked being an evaluator because I got to give the poets the marks that they deserved.

I think that the poetry slam went really well!

Highlights of the slam:
I think the highlights of the slam were probably when the boys ate the crackers and then tried to whistle!!
That was hilarious!!
I also liked Mackenzie's poems!
I thought that she did really well.

I enjoyed it a lot!

The whole slam was really great!!!

peotry slam

after having the poetry slam I had fun being the camera man because i found out how to work the camra.

Math Questions

I didn't have my book at school on Friday so I didn't know what questions to do so I did number 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 13.

i couldn't find a readers theatre script , so we will just use our one we have because we are already working on it if that is alright.

Blog Challenge #2:

First person 10 people to find a video helping you find the Volume of a Rectangular or Triangular right prism, and post it to their own blog, win a reward.

Once you have finished posting to your blog (the video, not the link to the video), you must leave a comment on the bottom of this post letting me know that you have successfully completed your challenge!

Make sure you put an appropriate title on you post and also label your post:  volume, video, how to



Remember: You are to post this video on YOUR blog, and leave a comment on this very post!! 

If you are unsure of how to post a youtube video to your blog, see the instructions on the post below titled "Volume of a Cylinder" - not Meaghan's post, but mine a little farther down.

Volume of A Cylinder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bON3X7UpFRE

How to Find the Volume of a Cylinder

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Volume of a Cylinder

Challenge: 

Can any of you 8O'ers find a good video on youtube and post it on this blog?  First person to post a good video on this site gets a reward tomorrow!

Steps:

1. Go to www.youtube.com (Right click on the link above - in a new tab - if you want)
2. Search youtube for a really good video which explains how to find the Volume of a Cylinder
3. Watch the video to make sure
4. Click on the "Embed" link below the video
5. Right click and copy the code which appears below
6. Click back on the tab with this blog
7. Go to New Post
8. In the new post, type in an appropriate title, then click on the Edit HTML button (beside the Compose button - top right of body of post), and paste the code in
9. Lastly, add labels - "Math, volume, video" (type in the first few letters of each and the labels should pop up below, click on the correct word)

As an extra added bonus, add a few sentences in to the post about why you thought this video helped.

TUSC #3

1)  What did you think of this week's TUSC meeting? Why?

2)  What can we do better as a class?  Suggestions?  Improvements?  Why?

3)  What are you doing well?  What do you need to do to improve?

math test?

what to study? is it just surface area of trianglular based prisims, regtangular based prisims, and clyinders?

How to Find the Surface Area of a Cylinder

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