St. Rose Dance Crew

Good luck to our Dance Crew as they compete this weekend!

It's time to celebrate all of your hard work!

Snow Day ... or NOT!

Thanks to Rich from CTV for coming back to feature our class on February 5, 2014.

CTV News Feature - Grade 8 Chromebook Pilot

I could not be more proud of all that this class has accomplished this year. It's exciting to think about the possibilities that lay ahead for us in Term 2!

6 Word Memoirs

This past term we transitioned from writing Personal Memoirs to Memoir Poetry to a 6-Word Memoir.  In the end, choosing just six words to represent an event is difficult.  I hope that you will take some time to enjoy our memoirs:

Health Magazine

The New Year is a time filled with resolutions and new beginnings.  In an effort to promote awaremess of healthy ways, you will create a Health Magazine of your own.  Your magazine is to include the following:

THREE articles on healthy living (topics might include: healthy eating, restaurant highlights, forms of exercise, etc)

• must follow rules for article writing - (catchy headline, facts, quotes from people, etc)
• article must be at least 250 words
• proper punctuation, grammar and appropriate use of capitals A MUST
• at least TWO of your articles must also include an image with a caption

ONE Letter to the Editor based on an article that you find in the Windsor Star (or some other newspaper)... must be health related

ONE full page advertisements for a healthy product of your choice

ONE suggested workout which will include instructions and images of you doing the workout

Amazing Artist Assignment

AMAZING ARTISTS

 In this fast paced society, we often don't take time to appreciate the value in art.  YOU are going to begin this New Year making sure that the rest of the class appreciates YOUR talent.

Your job is to do the following:

• select an artist of your choice
• once you have made the selection you will begin preparing your oral presentation (which will last 4-7 minutes)
• you will find a compete list of what you will need in your presentaiton below:

1. YOU will become the artist and present the information in first person
2. Your presentation will be created using Google Presentations - but there is ONE catch... your presentation cannot include any words.  You can use the notes section though to place point form reminders of what that page contains... but DO NOT READ directly from these notes PLEASE!
3. Your presentation must include: your life story (at lesat the highlights), 5-7 pieces of your work (where you will share the title, inspiraiton and any other interesting facts about the piece), a description of the art style you are famous for
4. Finally, you will create your OWN piece of art by this artist (**I will be assessing effort here as I realize you are not in fact a famous artist ;)

** Each artist can only be selected by one person.  I will createa  google form in our shared drive called AMAZING ARTISTS so that you will know who has already been taken.  The artists will be assigned on a first come first serve basis.

Some suggestions you might consider studying:

1. Renoir
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Michelangelo
4. Rembrandt
5. Toulouse-Lautrec
6. Vincent Van Gogh
7. James Abbott McNeil Whistler
8. Mary Cassatt
9. Eduard Manet
10. Henri Matisse
11. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez
12. Edgar Degas
13. Katsushika Hokusai
14. Claude Monet
15. Jan or Johannes Vermeer
16. Georgia O’Keefe
17. Gauguin, Paul
18. Frida Kahlo
19. Henry Moore
20. Pablo Picasso
21. Marc Chagall

Resources you might wish to check out:

RESOURCES:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htm

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882839.html

http://www.artquotes.net/masters.htm

http://www.k12.hi.us/~kapunaha/student_projects/famous_artists/famous_artists.htm

http://gardenofpraise.com/art.htm

http://www.artpromote.com/famousartist.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/velazque/index.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0850601.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNeill_Whistler

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/

Chloe Book Talk

WE Give

Our WE Give campaign was an overwhelming success!  The generosity of our St. Rose families is truly amazing.  As a school we TWO cars full of new toys and socks to donate to Divine Mercy and their Christmas giving program.  

Special thanks to our WE Act club for your announcements, posters, and enthusiasm as the gifts piled up in our classroom!  I am so proud of all of you!

Grade 8's Take A Stand Against Bullying

Why You Gotta Be So Mean?

Be an UPstander!

I love this song!  One of my favourite lines is "In God's Eye's We're All the Same,"  We all need to see the world with the same love and respect God does!  

Paracord Bracelets

Of all the videos I have watched, this one seems to clearly explain the process.

Steps to note:
1. Make middle section first - measure your wrist and make sure to add enough for the knot
2. For a 7-1.2 inch wrist, you will want about 3 feet of each colour

** Attaching the colours using a candle is a job for AN ADULT!

My Favourite Remembrance Day Video

We have spent a lot of time discussing and being thankful for those that have served for us.  Below you will find A Pittance In Time (my favourite Remembrance Day Video) as well as a presentation that we have created within our class.  Each student created a slide to share.

Click this link to see our class presentation:

Remembrance Day Clement

WE Act

Be sure to visit our WE Act page for frequent updates of our WE Act club.  

Sharing Documents

When sharing with me, please use laurieclement@mytools2go.ca ONLY and PLEASE uncheck the email box.

I am looking for:
1. Timeline
2. 1 page assignment (Population Density OR Pressing Problems)
3. Hand Poem
4. Geography Paragraph

Please Help!

Please help one of our groups currently participating in the 5 Most Pressing Problems by filling out this short survey.

Thank you!

Busy Week! Please mark your calendars.

Tuesday @ 2:00 - WE Create Change assembly

• introducing the organizations we will be supporting with our walk on Thursday 
• learn more about Free the Children and the Terry Fox Foundation by watching the videos posted earlier in the week

Wednesday - Meet the Teacher

• friendly reminder I will be in book fair.  If you would like to meet with me, just drop in there and I will be happy to chat

Wednesday - Friday - Book Fair @ St. Rose

• Wednesday is also picture day (bring your best smile)
• this is not for grad photos though, they will be taken later in the year

Thursday - WE Walk for Change

• we will be collecting loose change for the organizations mentioned above and will be walking as a school to Kiwanis Park and back

Friday - Student of the Month Assembly

• please join us for our first student of the month assembly @ 12:30
• grade 8's will take their place leading the DPA (daily physical activity) at the end of the assembly

WE Create Change

This week we kick off our Falcon Leadership Program with our We Create Change Walk.  This walk will support two charities that are very important to us.  We will be collecting loose change for Free the Children's Water Campaign as well as the Terry Fox Foundation.  I have included a few videos so that you can see how important each of these organizations are to the lives of others.

Keeping It Real...

2013 - 2014 Student Council Representatives

Congratulations to our 2013 - 2014 Student Council

Prime Minister: Kennedy
Deputy Prime Minister: Amelia
Minister of Finance: Samantha