Everybody's Planking!

Between taking a midterm and jumping into our Islam unit, the 8th graders have started to go a little loopy.  I guess it is that time of year.

More Pictures of Creating and Sharing our Books in 7th Grade

Our week of book sharing is drawing to a close, but here are a few more pictures of my awesome 7th graders sharing their creations with lower school students.

Sharing our Luke Books with the Lower School

Today was the first day that our 7th grade class got to share some of their freshly "printed" books.  To give you some idea of what we wrote about, the students had to pick a story from the Gospel of Luke and come up with a modern spin to put on it.  Maybe one of them will appear on our blog some time soon!  Thank you to a special 4th grade class for letting us come visit!

Visit Beth El

Friday night, a few of my 8th Grade World Religion students got to sit in on a Bat Mitzvah at Beth El, a synagogue in Fort Worth. We had a wonderful tour guide named Alex who showed us around the temple and let us know what to expect in the upcoming ceremony. He also let us have an up close and personal look at the Torah and debriefed us after the service!

8th Grade Mid Term Reviews

We are working on collaborative Mid Term reviews in 8th grade.  They are creating the reviews together as a group.  We uploaded them to google docs so that students could look at them and edit them individually.

Period 3:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17vGM389m8POY3IkqIzx3Ve6qHBGMzAUu8NXkuovZBYs/edit?hl=en_US

Period 1:
https://docs.google.com/a/allsaintsftw.net/document/d/17vGM389m8POY3IkqIzx3Ve6qHBGMzAUu8NXkuovZBYs/edit?hl=en_US

Period 2:
https://docs.google.com/a/allsaintsftw.net/document/d/1jyagdDdCOQOie9RYZa5o7VHUKayQtEidNyLBSaxfpns/edit?hl=en_US

Where did the time go!

Yikes!  Last week flew by so fast that I didn't have time to post.  Fortunately, that means we've got lots of good stuff to talk about.  Our seventh graders are writing books that we are going to share with a few lower school classes next week.  They are putting a  modern spin on stories we've read from the Gospel of Luke.  Meanwhile, our eighth graders are getting ready for a trip to a synagogue on Friday.  Beth El was nice enough to allow us to come and sit in on a Shabbat service on Friday night.  All of that, AND the end of the quarter is coming up this Friday.  Everyone is working hard!  I'll keep you posted with pictures and updates.