Eighth Grade and Social Studies

Alan Wellna • 1-262-377-4659 x134 • alan.wellna@splgrafton.org

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Wellna Class Update - October 4th-10th

So proud of the 8th grade for how they did in chapel Wednesday!  Thank you to so many of you who were able to make it.  They did awesome on their last chapel ever.

AUCTION: Please be on the lookout for an email from our room parent, Misty Peto, about the auction basket.  Our auction basket is combined with the other 8th grade and has the theme of "Coffee and Cocktails".  These are 2 great things that I feel many people would be interested in.  She will reach out with more specifics, but generally any donations can either go right to the room parent OR to the homeroom teacher and I can get them to Misty.

CALENDAR NOTE: Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up on October 8th-9th in the gym.  Please stop by and see me and any other teachers you'd like!

Homework Envelopes: PLEASE make sure you see these when sent home, sign them, and send them back to get in the drawer.

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • October 8-9 - Parent-Teacher Conferences
  • October 9 - Half Day
  • October 17 - St. Paul Auction
  • October 28 - LJHA Induction
  • October 30 - No School
  • Friday, April 30 – 10 Community Service Hours Due 

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Writing

  • Patterns of Power: Our next unit focuses on the subjunctive mood.  The subjunctive mood verbs express a condition that is fantasy or not factual.  It is most often found in a clause beginning with the word if and ends up expressing something untrue.  Example:  If only carrot cake had more carrots in it, I’d count it as a vegetable, or at the very least, a healthy dessert.  
  • Writing: We’ll finish our mini-unit on God’s Truth in Motion and begin both nonfiction and fiction summaries early next week. 

Health

Math A

Properties and learning how to express algebra in written form, as well as combining like terms were big things this week.  We'll spend a few more days reviewing this and one more topic before the end of the unit.  We'll test this week and move on to something new!

Math B

We practiced everything we could this week on irrational and rational numbers along with figuring out how to identify and give each number a category.  Now we're ready to test.  We'll review on Monday and test on Tuesday.  After that we're on to a new unit.

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’ll be finishing Okay for Now this week and culminating the unit with a project.  Details will be given on Google Classroom.

Religion

The 8th graders will be having a quiz/test on Tuesday, September 29th. There is NO MEMORY this week.  Don't be sad.

Science

8th Science This week in 8th science we are learning about Gas Behavior.
The earliest the test on Topic 2 (Solids, Liquids, and Gases) will be is Friday, Oct. 9th.

Social Studies

Wellna Class - Test on Unit 1 will probably be on Wednesday (They are behind the other class because of chapel) Yurk Class - We will be starting Unit 2 and will not have any tests or quizzes.

Vocab

Unit 2
  • Set B - due Thursday, 10/8; Unit Review - due Monday, 10/12
  • Review Activities to follow; Definition Test - Thursday, 10/15; Spelling Test - Friday, 10/17

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 Classes singing in Worship… (keep watch for changes) 
  • Sun, April 19 - 8am Gr. K-8 students L-Z; 10:30am Gr. K-8 students A-K
Choir/JuBellate Notes… * Groups & Schedules  ** Extracurricular Handbook
  1. JiVE (Gr. 5-8) - Wed rehearsals - next worship Sun, April 19. Then Sat, May 16
  2. 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
Eligibility checked every 2 weeks (Gr. 5-8) for students in extracurricular Music Groups.