REMINDERS:
DONUT FRIDAY
FIELD TRIP TO MARINE QUEST IN ST. PETE - APRIL 16, 2010
FIELD TRIP TO FINANCE PARK IN LARGO- MARCH 11, 2010
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MARINE QUEST
 $1 dress for Wed. March 17 - you must wear green, white, or orange to share 'The Luck of the Irish!'
MATH:
Daily homework is posted daily on the homework board in the classroom.
We are currently working on Finance Park, this is a program intended to teach
the students about budgeting, taxes.....
SCIENCE:
Daily homework is posted daily on the homework board in the classroom.
AMERICAN HISTORY: All daily homework is on the homework board. Students are to read section, review notes, and do key terms in the back of the social studies notebook in preparation for daily section quizzes. Special assignments will have a handout sheet.
This week Chapter 15....Quizzes and test end of chapter.
LITERATURE: All daily homeowork is on the homework board. Daily homework is checked/collected daily. Students are assigned a small group novel to read. Groups meet every Wednesday for book discussion. Discussion sheet is to be completed prior to discussion. Sometimes the novel is an individual "free choice" novel from the books in the library. A novel review form must be completed on any novel read. All students must have a novel to read in school at all times. There are many novels to choose from in the classroom.
ST 3/9 "Gentleman of Rio en Medio"
ST 3/11 "Sancho"
ENGLISH: Eighth grade students ALWAYS have homework in English. The Vocabulary Workshop Unit Test will be Monday, Feb. 8 over Unit 12. The major writing projects are found on www.criterion.ets.org This website helps the student learn about organization, grammar, spelling, sentence structure as well as the various genre covered in this course. A biography was just completed by the class. The majority of them showed much improvement over the biography written last year. |
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