Eighth Grade and Language Arts

Joy Yurk • 1-262-377-4659 x132 • joy.yurk@splgrafton.org

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Auction News:  Thank you to our room parents for organizing and collecting donations for our auction basket:  coffee and cocktails.  Items can be brought to my classroom as needed, and thank you also to those who have already contributed! 🙂  The auction itself is a lot of fun, so if you’re able to attend, please do! 🙂  Be looking for more information about items in the auction, too.

 

Parent-Teacher Conferences are being held next week, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet with the middle school teachers as we all will be in the gym.  There are no sign-ups at this level for this first conference, and I realize there is a time commitment involved on your part.  I will do my best to keep the line to a minimum!! 🙂  Seriously, I know I speak for all of us:  we are grateful for the opportunity to support one another as we work together for your kids.  

 

Calendar

October

  • 8  Parent-Teacher Conferences, 3:30 - 7
  • 9  11:40 dismissal; Parent-Teacher Conferences, 12 - 2
  • 29 Quarter Class 1 ends
  • 30  No School

 

November

  • 11  Veterans’ Day Chapel
  • 20  Trimester 1 ends
  • 23 - 27  No School for Thanksgiving break

 

December

  • 2  Grades 5 - 8 Advent Service

 

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.  We can find a time to meet.  Blessings on your week!

 

Mrs. Yurk

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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

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!

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.

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

Communications: This class focuses on Interpersonal Communications, Group Dynamics, Public Speaking, and Digital Citizenship.  I have 2 more class periods with this group.  In these final days, we will wrap up our discussion on digital citizenship and communications.  Students will then have their final rotation class in Art.