Monday, October 10

MEAP starts tomorrow! 8th graders will be taking the Reading MEAP Tuesday & Wednesday this week. 8th grade will also be selling granola bars and fruit leather in the morning before school for 50 cents.

Geometry: Take-home quizzes were turned in and we went over 2.6 (two column proofs). 2.6 worksheet is homework. Chapter 2 test is Monday, October 17.

Science: Began collecting data for "How Fast Am I?" lab. We will complete data collection tomorrow, except for 3rd hour which doesn't meet due to MEAP. Any students in 3rd hour who did not complete their data collection should come at lunch Tuesday or Wednesday to complete collecting data (lunch was provided for them today in hopes that they would complete their data collection).

Humanities: Students corrected Atlas work, read and discussed 1.1 in text and began work on 1.1 section assessment. Homework is to complete 1.1. Current events due Wednesday.

Spanish I Chap 1.1 test tomorrow for hours 4-7. 2nd hour have their test this Thursday. Don't forget to remind your parents about the Chicago information trip tomorrow at Norup at 6 PM in the media center. Parents who cannot make it can email me to get the info packet.

Pre-Algebra: Students took a chapter one test. No homework.

Phys. Ed. Question for October: Now that school has started, how has your physical activity level changed? How are you fitting in daily exercise? What are some of the activities you are doing and how often? What activities influence you to be inactive? Essays should be informative, neat and completed on time. Papers are due on or before Thursday, October 20, 2011.

Language Arts: Students received the vocabulary words for the week. These words are in chapters 6-10 of The Giver, students should be writing down the page # they find each vocabulary word as they encounter it in the text. We finished up our class discussion from last week and took notes.  Due to the confusion on Subjects and Predicates, I made up a packet for students to be completing at home. This packet is due on Thursday, please review these packets with your students and reinforce the difference between a subject and predicate. MEAP is tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday... be sure your student comes to school with an AR book to read when they are done with each section of MEAP they can catch up on their AR reading.

Art 7/8: Students have completed the tooling portion of their aluminum. I have demonstrated the cutting of the frame with e-xacto knives and "boo-boo" boards. Next step is carrying the initial design onto the frame and adding layers of colored pencil.



Algebra (Graham) Finished up Unit 1/2 test. We started the new section today. We will take 2 days to cover it. No homework tonight.Advanced Art grade 8: Students have decided to take their third still life drawing for 2 weeks. "Flower Puns" drawings are due by the end of the week.