Welcome Grade 8 Students!!!
Miss Weiss
Seven Chinese Brothers - Individual Talents
Fun with Limericks :)
By: Miss Weiss
A limerick is often humorous or nonsensical, but they can also be serious. They are most often written about a person or character. The purpose is to tell a short story. The characteristics of a limerick are as follows:
- must have 5 lines
- has an AABBA rhyming pattern (the A's rhyme and the B's rhyme)
- has an AABBA syllable pattern
- the B lines contain less syllables then A lines
Assignment: Take the Disney card given out in class and write your own 2 verse limerick about that character. Be sure to follow all the rules of a limerick. Be creative and have fun!!
Boy's Senior Volleyball Team
Why Choose the Graphic Novel?
- a publishing format
- books written and illustrated in the style of a comic book
- can be lengthy with a complex storyline
- aimed at a variety of audiences
- has been used for centuries in the forms of cave drawings, hieroglyphics and medieval tapestries
- can develop critical thinking and reading ability
- can include; literary devices, narrative structure, metaphor and symbolism, point of view, alliteration, puns, inference
- most importantly can be FUN!!!!
Graphic Novels tell a story through both pictures and words, for an assignment the students must pick a significant figure in history and use the principles of a graphic novel to tell the story of their lives. In order to assist with this task the students can go to http://www.readwritethink.org/MATERIALS/COMIC/. The graphic novels will be presented to the class in order to allow all students to attain the information researched by their peers.
Active + Healthy Children = Enhanced Academic Performance
Ontario Ministry of EducationPolicy/Program Memorandum No. 138: DPA in Elementary Schools 1-8
Overall, Daily Physical Activity in your school must:
- Include all students from grades 1 - 8.
- Occur during instructional time every school day in a variety of locations such as:
Outdoors.
In your school gymnasium.
In multipurpose rooms.
In your classroom. - Involve at least 20 minutes of continuous moderate to vigorous physical activity every school day.
- Include a warm-up and cool-down period.
- Be planned and modified to ensure that students with special needs can participate.
- Follow safety guidelines as outlined in the DPA Ministry Resource Guidelines
- Represent just one of many components of health and physical education at your school. DPA does NOT replace your school's health and physical education curriculum.
- DPA is also required to be sustained, every student must be working at a moderate or vigorous effort level the whole time.
Participating in sports and doing daily physical activity is an important part of growing up healthy and doing well in school. Research shows that students who engage in daily physical activity demonstrate improved academic performance. Our schools need to be in the business of helping students reach their full intellectual, emotional and physical potential. With the Ministry of Educations overall Healthy Schools Program the children will be allowed to achieve a healthy lifestyle and will in turn be able to be more focused and productive during class and achieve their academic goals.
The Wonderful World of Poetry
As you're student teacher four the next for weeks, I will bee introducing you two the exciting and creative world of poetry. We will be examining many forms of poetry the diamante, limerick, haiku, found poetry, concrete poetry and the riddle poem. Sum of you may have never heard of these forms before butt buy the end of this class you all will bee experts in the field of poetry and can transfer the righting skills learned in poetry to you're everyday writing and recognize them in the stories that you read.
Some of you may have noticed the many errors in word use in the above paragraph this is because before we start looking at poetry it is useful to know that words that are similar can have different meanings; these words are called homonyms.
There are three types:
- homophones - words that sound alike but are spelled differently (write/right) Can you identify the matching homophones in the picture?
- homographs - words that are spelled alike but are pronounced differently (lead, close, wind)
3. homographic homophones - words that are both spelled and pronounced alike (bark, bat, match)