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Weekly Update - October 18th-24th
Hello all. Not too many updates for the week! Thank you to all those who came to conferences. It was nice to check in with you all.
AUCTION: Saturday. Have a great time! Thank you for all your donations.
Homework Envelopes: PLEASE make sure you see these when sent home, sign them, and send them back to get in the drawer. They are coming home Monday the 19th.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- October 17 - St. Paul Auction
- October 19 - Homework Envelopes Home
- October 28 - LJHA Induction
- October 30 - No School
- November 6 - Father/Daughter Dance
- November 14 - Country Fair
- November 16-30 - Butter Braid Sale
- November 20 - End of Trimester 1
- Friday, April 30 – 10 Community Service Hours Due
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Writing
- Patterns of Power: We’ll be assessing our study on the Subjunctive Mood this week and beginning our next unit, using the Active and Passive Voices to create fluency.
- Writing: We’re beginning our formal writing piece, a literary analysis. We’ll be building the elements of the essay and drafting and revising before submitting the final. I’m planning two - three weeks for this unit.
Health
Math A
We are going to continue moving towards how to solve for multiple variables and how to graph those relationships. After that, we focus in on linear and nonlinear relationships with our graphs.
Math B
As we continue on with two step equations, we find that we can write and solve our own. We also discover that some equations can have more than one solutions, while other have no solution. By the end of the week we'll be finished with this unit and we'll be reviewing for a test early next week.
PE
Please have your inside shoes, pe uniform shirt, and athletic shorts ready to go. Also, be sure to review grading for Mr. Fischer's pe class which is available on my webpage links.
Reading
We finished Okay for Now and four project options were discussed on Friday. The document is posted in Literature Google Classroom as well as here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfu87V6SdTFQ-Pr7qrWIqXso286wNbz0McuiYbki3Uk/edit?usp=sharing
We’re planning for a Thursday, October 22nd, due date. After we present them, we’ll begin our next novel, The Giver.
Religion
October 19th- Worksheet on 3rd Article of the Creed due
October 22nd- Test on the Apostles' Creed
Science
8th Science
This week in 8th science we are learning about Kinetic, Potential and Other Energy Forms of Energy. No major tests or assignments this week.
Social Studies
8th grade will still be in Unit 2 this week but will not make it to any tests.
Vocab
Unit 3
- Set A - due Thursday, 10/22; Set B - due Thursday, 10/29; Unit Review - due TUESDAY, 11/3
- Review Activities to follow; Definition Test - Thursday, 11/5; Spelling Test - Friday, 11/6
Quarter Class
Computers May 4-8: Monday and Tuesday we will finish your second chapter working on creating multi-page reports with endnotes. The quiz on this second chapter will be Thursday of this week. Looking for extra credit? Email me by 10 pm Sunday night at michael.yurk@splgrafton.org and tell me the two formatting techniques that you need to do to the title of a paper.
Music
School-Wide Notes… Details on Ms Bremer's music page
- Gr. K-8 Class Singing Schedule for the year!
- Sun, April 19 - 8am Gr. K-8 students L-Z; 10:30am Gr. K-8 students A-K
- JiVE (Gr. 5-8) - Wed rehearsals - next worship Sun, April 19. Then Sat, May 16
- JuBellate (Gr. 5-8) - Mon rehearsals- next worship Sun, April 19. Then Sat, May 16 SPRING CONCERT - Thursday, May 21 at 9am and 6:45pm