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Eighth Grade

St. Francis of Assisi School

Newsletter - Notes for the Week - Spelling Words - Websites - Edline

Middle School Expectations Sheet

Welcome to Eighth Grade
Teaching the Eighth Grade Class:
Louise Mistry,
Susie Nelson,
Erin Nennig,
Cindy Streff, and
Jennifer Wallace

Service Log Form

Pre-Approval Service Form

Weekly Newsletter
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Week 1: August 22-31	Week 2: September 1-15
Week 3: September 16-28	Week 4: September 29- October 12
Week 5: October 13-26	Week 6: October 29-November 20
Week 7: November 27-December 7

Subject	Important Notes for the week:
Religion
Reading	Week 14 vocab words: (due Wednesday) tangible pg 199, refute pg 200, illiteracy pg 202, obscure pg 204, syndromes pg 204, introspective pg 205, dynamic character pg 181, static character pg 181
Language Arts	Work on your picture books. They must be 15-25 pages in length. Click to see rubric!
Math
Science
Social Studies
Other

Other Notes

Spelling Words

Week One: 8/27-8/31	Week Two: 9/4-9/7
Week Three: 9/10-9/14	Week 4
Week 5	Week 6
Week 7	Week 8
Week 9: 10/29-11/2	Week 10: 11/12-11/16
Week 11: 11/26-11/30	Week 12: 12/3-12/9
Week 13: 12/10-12/14	Week 14: 1/7-1/11

Websites

Language Arts

Math

Science

Social Studies

Religion

Language Arts

Midsummer Night's Dream Links:
PinkMonkey.com (summaries, characters, etc)
SparkNotes.com read "No Fear Shakespeare"
and
Read the play on Project Gutenberg

Click here for Citation Machine

Two great online dictionaries!
http://dictionary.reference.com/ and http://www.webster.com

Common Grammar Errors in English
A fun cite that explains the correct usage of commonly mistaken words and phrases in the English language. Listed alphabetically.

Literature.org
Free Literature available for online viewing

Project Gutenberg
Also contains free Literature for online viewing--mostly classic works.

Des Moines Register

http://infoweb.newsbank.com

Math Websites

All math topics:
stock activity
This site is the site we
are using for our virtual stock game

aaamath.com
Contains subtopic categories
examples would be decimals, measurement

aplusmath.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.superkids.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.homeschoolmath.net
Creates worksheets for various concepts and online practice

Virtual Manipulatives
This site contains virtual manipulatives for most concepts
It also contains logic activities such as MasterMind, Tangrams, Number Puzzles, etc

http://www.flashcardmath.com/
Creates worksheets

Word Problems and Brain Teasers:

Education Place-Brain Teasers
Contains word problems of the week,
along with a archive of problems

Scholastic Math Word Problems/Mysteries
Word problems that are listed by skill and
difficulty level

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mhm/
Houghton Mifflin Website-our math textbook

Daily SuDoku
Logic puzzle

Science Websites:
Internet Safety:
www.netsmartz.org

Science Websites:

chemicool.com

webelements.com

volcanoworld.com

Internet Safety:
www.netsmartz.org

http://www.PHSchool.com

This website corresponds to our science textbooks and has links, self-tests and lots of great material which ties into our curriculum.

www.SciLinks.org.

Throughout your child's texbook there are "web-codes" listed in the margins of the text. When you get on this website and enter the codes it will take you to the applicable links.

More to come!

Social Studies Websites

Caribbean Islands

http://www.geographic.org/maps/caribbean_maps.html

http://maps.caribseek.com/

South America

http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/southamerica.html

All countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/sa.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org

http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcindex.htm