'TIS THE SEASON...

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Participaction Sign-up  7 am – 9s – Nov. 24^th

                                               - 8s – Nov. 25^th

                                               - 7s – Nov 26^th

Dec 1^st – 8-8 + HOPE members - volunteering at Christmas Cheer Board

Dec 4th - Report Card Writing Day - no classes

Dec 7^th – 8-6 + HOPE members – volunteering at Christmas Cheer Board

Dec 14th-18th - Spirit Week

Dec 17th - Report cards go live - on-line access

Dec 18th - Last day of school - am - Grade 8 movie @ Grant Park

                                                  - pm - Talent Show @ Acadia

Dec 19th - Jan 3rd - Winter Break

Jan 4th - Classes resume

Jan 11th-15th - Grade 8 Provincial Reading/Writing Assessment - please don't make

                         appointments for this week.

Feb 5th - Metro Common Day - no classes

Feb 11th - Valentine's Day Dance - 7:00-9:30pm

Feb 15th - Louis Riel Day - no school

Feb 19th - Participaction – school-wide fieldtrips/activities

Welcome to Room 310!

 

 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions/concerns.  kfuerst@pembinatrails.ca or through REMIND.

Kelly Fuerst

 

GRADE 8 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

 

Expectations

• Students are expected to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every day (at home)
• Students and parents are expected to sign up for the Remind app. It's free and is a safe way for two way communication using cell phones/iPads in which phone numbers remain private.
            8-5@mason321
            8-6@cena310
            8-8@ponyboy88
            HOPE@hopeforall

• Students are expected to have an 8”x11” coil ring notebook for ELA. We will be using them for our interactive notebooks. These are overdue and should have been at school by the end of October.
   
  Students are in the middle of their Mystery/Suspense unit. They have done a variety of in-class activities to prepare them for writing their own original pieces. Students have the choice of writing a mystery or horror story. Please check on your child's progress on a regular basis. There are 6 stages for our writing piece. Deadlines TBA. There are homework checks for each of these stages.
  1) Pre-drafting
  2) Draft#1
  3) Peer edit
  4) Draft #2
  5) Conference with Mrs. Fuerst
  6) Revision
  7) Publishing - completion of third and final draft
   
  We are now finished our Outsiders unit. All questions have been marked in class and students were given time to make corrections. They should be using those corrections to study for their final assessment on November 26th (unit test).
   
  We are starting our Random Acts of Kindness unit. Please ask your child about the expectations for this unit. There will be homework over the break. Students are expected to do a minimum of 10 RAKs and document the details in their logs.
   
  8-8 will be volunteering at the Christmas Cheer Board on Tues, Dec. 1^st as part of this initiative.
  8-6 will be volunteering at the Christmas Cheer Board on Mon, Dec 7^th as part of this initiative.
   
  Have you signed and returned your student’s permission form yet?
   
  GRADE 8 SOCIAL STUDIES
   
  We have winding down our Early Peoples unit. Students should be reviewing their unit vocabulary (flashcards) on a regular basis and reading through the chapter in their textbooks.
  Vocabulary Quiz - Tues. Nov 10^th –
  Tools and Technology Research Project - due Mon. Nov 16^th – now over due
  Vocab/Big Ideas Quiz – Tues. Nov 24^th
  Unit Test – Wed. Dec 8^th
  
  
  
  
  HOPE - Helping Other People Everywhere
   
  HOPE is Acadia's student-run social advocacy club. Students are responsible for choosing causes/issues to raise awareness on, volunteering in the community, and fundraising for targeted charities/organizations. HOPE members are also responsible for planning and implementing the school dances
  
  
  Activities to Date

•  Bake sale
• Volunteering at the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy and Children's Hospital Book Market
•  Phone interview with a reporter from Free the Children
•  Halloween Dance
• “We Scare Hunger” campaign in support of Winnipeg Harvest
•  WE DAY (did you see the article in the Free Press?)
• 
  
• Upcoming Events 
• Volunteering at the Christmas Cheer Board (Dec 1^st and 7^th)

• Volunteering at MDAC's Christmas Party
•  Christmas Ornament workshop
• Operation Shovel Out - members choose someone in their neighborhood who could
                                    use assistance with shoveling the driveway/sidewalk and HOPE
                                    swoops in and surprises them.
• Hot Chocolate Sale
•  January Bake Sale

Settled In Nicely...

IMPORTANT DATES


Nov 2nd - Photo Retakes
Nov 9th - Parent Teacher Interviews - 6:00-8:30pm - Sign up using Pembina Trails Scheduler
Nov 11th - REMEMBRANCE DAY - no school
Nov 12th - Parent Teacher Interviews - 5:00-7:30pm - by appointment only
Nov 13th - Admin Day - no classes - Parent Teacher Interviews - 12:45-3:30pm - by appt. only
Nov 16th - WE DAY
Nov 23rd - Divisional Common Day - no classes
Dec 4th - Report Card Writing Day - no classes
Dec 14th-18th - Spirit Week
Dec 17th - Report cards go live - on-line access
Dec 18th - Last day of school - am - Grade 8 movie @ Grant Park
                                                  - pm - Talent Show @ Acadia
Dec 19th - Jan 3rd - Winter Break
Jan 4th - Classes resume
Jan 11th-15th - Grade 8 Provincial Reading/Writing Assessment - please don't make appts. for 
                            this week.
Feb 5th - Metro Common Day - no classes
Feb 11th - Valentine's Day Dance - 7:00-9:30pm
Feb 15th - Louis Riel Day - no school
Feb 19th - Participaction - school wide fieldtrips/activities


Welcome to Room 310!


Our room is a very busy place. It's the headquarters for HOPE, Game Club, and Wind Chill Club. Most of the students are settled in nicely by this point in the year. We spent all of Sept. and much of Oct. focusing on the positive learning behaviors necessary for success. Unfortunately several per class are still struggling to use positive learning behaviors or personal management skills. These include arriving on time, bringing all necessary supplies, using class time productively, participating during class, completing assignments on time and with required detail, and
working independently. Our other two areas of focus are using the reading comprehension strategies, taught in class, to improve comprehension and to use their critical thinking skills independently.


Please feel free to contact me with any questions/concerns.  kfuerst@pembinatrails.ca or through REMIND


Kelly Fuerst




GRADE 8 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS


Expectations

• Students are expected to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every day (at home)
• Students and parents are expected to sign up for the Remind app. It's free and is a safe way for two way communication using cell phones/iPads in which phone numbers remain private.

          8-5@mason321
          8-6@cena310
          8-8@ponyboy88
          HOPE@hopeforall

• Students are expected to be on time for class with the necessary supplies, use their class time efficiently, and do their best work. Please check with your child to ensure they have a blue pen, a red pen, some form of homework agenda, index cards for vocabulary work, loose leaf paper, and an coil ring (8x11) notebook for interactive notebook tasks.

Students are in the middle of their Mystery/Suspense unit. They have done a variety of in-class activities to prepare them for writing their own original pieces. Students have the choice of writing a mystery or horror story. Please check on your child's progress on a regular basis. There are 6 stages for our writing piece. Deadlines TBA. There are homework checks for each of these stages.
1) Pre-drafting
2) Draft#1
3) Peer edit
4) Draft #2
5) Conference with Mrs. Fuerst
6) Revision
7) Publishing - completion of third and final draft


We're in the middle of our novel study on The Outsiders. Students should have completed the chapter questions for Ch#1-7 by Thursday, Nov 5th


Chapter #8 &#9 - due Mon. Nov 9th
Chapter #10 - due Wed. Nov 11th
Chapter #11&#12 - due Mon. Nov 16th


GRADE 8 SOCIAL STUDIES


We have started our Early Peoples unit. Students should be reviewing their unit vocabulary (flashcards) on a regular basis and reading through the chapter in their textbooks.


Vocabulary Quiz - Tues. Nov 10th
Tools and Technology Research Project -  due Mon. Nov 16th
                                                                 - 8-5 has an extension until Nov 19th due to scheduling 
                                                                    challenges


HOPE - Helping Other People Everywhere


HOPE is Acadia's student-run social advocacy club. Students are responsible for choosing causes/issues to raise awareness on, volunteering in the community, and fundraising for targeted charities/organizations. HOPE members are also responsible for planning and implementing the school dances.


Activities to Date

•  Bake sale
• Volunteering at the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy and Children's Hospital Book Market
• Phone interview with a reporter from Free the Children
• Halloween Dance
• We Scare Hunger in support of Winnipeg Harvest

Upcoming Events

• WE DAY
• Volunteering at MDAC's Christmas Party
• One Big Day for Christmas
• Christmas Ornament workshop
• Operation Shovel Out - members choose someone in their neighborhood who could use                                          assistance with shoveling the driveway/sidewalk and HOPE swoops
•                                        in and surprises them.
• Hot Chocolate Sale

CRUNCH TIME...

IMPORTANT DATES


May 11th - Life Week Meeting - period 8 - Activity Fee now overdue
May 13th - Gauss Math Test
May 14th - Bus Ridership - am
May 15th - Grade 8 Band Pull-out
May 18th - Victoria Day - no school
May 19th-June 11th - Room 310 is open at lunch for Exam Prep
May 20th - Grade 8 Band Pull-out
May 21st - Human Rights Fieldtrip - school wide - pm
May 25th - Mrs. Fuerst begins in-class review for her classes
June 1st-5th - Grade 8 In-Class Exam Essay
June 15-18th - Exam Week
June 22-26th - Life Week




GRADE 8 ELA


All Grade 8 students will be writing an in-class exam on essay writing. This is a timed exercise (5 classes are allowed for the writing process). If a student is absent for any of the following scheduled classes, it is his/her responsibility to come make up that time during lunch hour. No other class time will be given.
8-5
Mon, June 1st - periods 6&7
Tues, June 2nd - period 2
Wed, June 3rd - period 4
Thurs, June 4th - period 5


8-6
Mon, June 1st - periods 2&4
Tues, June 2nd - period 1
Wed, June 3rd - period 3
Thurs, June 4th - period 3


Students are currently working on our Lit Circle unit. They are responsible for reading the novel, holding their thinking with post-its, expanding on that thinking on their journaling sheets, completing an evaluation sheet after each meeting, and various assignments (pink character web worksheet, blue character sketch sheet/white character sketch graphic organizer, white plot line assignment). Post-its are completed during reading. At the end of each chapter, students expand on the post-its and explain their thinking fully on the journaling sheets. The journaling sheets MUST be finished before their group meetings.


All Lit Circle assignments are due May 21st.


GRADE 8 SOCIAL


We are currently working on our Ancient Egypt unit.
Assignment Due Dates
May 4th - Art Assignment
May 12/13 - Cartouche Assignment
May 15th - Mapping Assignment
May 19th - Chapter Questions
June 5th - Independent Research Project (no class time given)


Ancient Egypt Unit Test - Tues, May 26th


Exam Review Booklets were handed out on May 12th.


GRADE 9 SOCIAL


May 8th - Bill C-51 Assignment
May 11th - Questions #1&2
May 25th - Residential Schools Presentation - periods 7&8