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Friday November 8

Voices of the students from room 7:

This week at school we continued to design the new arena. We had a guest speaker and we were talking about the process of designing the blue prints (GA). We reviewed the requirements to build this building. For example our arena must have chairs, washrooms, food, water, entrances and exits (SM). We learned that the new event center needs 20 washrooms (KC). We did a bunch of bubbles and we started to plan out specific locations for our features (TD). With grid paper, we were able to figure out where the bathroom went (SW). The grid paper helps us measure how bing the rink would be and made it easier to place where everything was to go (AF).

In gym we finished our basketball unit and we are strating volleyball (CS). Vollying the ball really hurts (DS). When you volley the ball it doesn't just hurt, but makes your arms really really red (ST). We learned different ways to control the ball, bump and set (AH).

We are doing pamphlets and also learning how to make our sentences longer and better (AH). How we are making our sentences longer is to add the name of the building, use descriptive words and avoid using too many ands (DD, YT).

Reminders
The Saddledome field study is on Monday November 25. If you are interested me contact me. If I have too many volunteers, I will have to do a draw with the students.

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