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Eighth Grade

St. Francis of Assisi School

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

 

 

 Serviam! Packet

 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

 Week 8: January 3-11

Week 8:  January 14-25 Week 9:  January 28-February 8
Week 10:  February 11-March 7 Week 11:  March 10-April 11
Week 12: April 14-25 Week 13:  May 5-9

 

Class Info

Subject

Info

Religion

YouTube - Love Song - Third Day

Reading

Elie Wiesel and Oprah visit to Auschwitz

Language Arts

 

Math

 

Science

 

Social Studies

 

Other

 

 

 

Important Notes

 

 

 

 Spelling Lists

Week 13:  12/10-12/14 Week 14:  1/7-1/11
Week 15:  1/14-1/18  

Websites
 

Language Arts

Math

Science

Social Studies

Religion
 

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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

 

Corresponds to our Grammar Text
Current code is eck-8002
http://www.PHSchool.com

 

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Click here for Citation Machine

 

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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.

 

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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

Reconstruction Links

#1 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/program_clips.html

#2 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/program_clips.html

 

 


 


www.unitedstreaming.com
(username and password needed from school,
email any teacher if you would like this information)
 

 

Religion

 

 
 

WEBSITES

Language Arts

Math

Science
Social Studies

Religion
 

  

 

 

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