What's Happening This Week:

Important Dates:

1/13 - Watch Dogs Dads and Donuts

1/17 - 8th Grade Bingo @ Legion

1/22 - Bookmobile @ CCA

1/27-1/30 - National School Choice Week

1/27 - School Choice Week AM Assembly

This week:

Students needed more practice/review with Multiplying Decimals after break. We will be taking the Chapter 5 assessment on Tuesday.

Chapter 6 - Long Division comes next. My goal is to work in small groups with Mrs. Minne and Mrs. Herman to work on coordinate plane as well as volume. Concepts worked on in small group will *NOT* be homework, unless students cannot stay on task.

We will continue Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. We read the play version so students will be able to act it out and have fun with it. The activities/assignments can be tricky so students may need additional help at home to help with understanding. At the end of the unit, we will watch the recorded version of the play that WC Drama performed a few years ago.

In addition to MSND, we will also begin reading Little Women as part of our Literature content. This book is quite long, so we will be reading it for many weeks. I plan to try to watch the movie at the end if we have time.

I am requesting that parents help their student with their reading and reading comprehension. Our content is challenging and the more repeated exposure to it, the better they will understand.

We will continue exploring Earth's systems. Students should be able to tell you which two systems they have learned about so far. (Hydrosphere - water, Geosphere - land)

Following Earth's systems we will explore Westward Expansion before the Civil War. My goal with this will be a group project/presentation. More info to come.

We are going to start the week with a dictionary relay game in groups. I will also introduce new lists this week with the tests for them beginning Tuesday.

New lists are current content based across subjects. Lists will only have 3 words. Students will be required to write each word with markings 4 times each, look up each word in the dictionary (writing down part of speech, page number and proper definition), and writing a sentence using each word correctly.

New lists will be posted to Parent Square.

Students will continue writing a personal narrative about their Christmas Break. The narrative will be DUE Friday, January 16th. This is a writing activity that CAN be worked on at home if more time is needed. Students will be allowed peer and adult conferencing as well.

Towards the end of the month, we will begin our next informational research essay based on Westward Expansion before the Civil War. *More info to come.*

January 13th - Watch Dogs Dads and Donuts

January 17th - 8th Grade BINGO Concessions

1/22 - Bookmobile @ CCA

1/27-1/30 - National School Choice Week

1/27 - School Choice Week AM Assembly