Hello parents, students, administrators and fellow students!
Room 114 has been a busy place to start the school year, as both teacher and students try to learn about each other! Grade 8 Social Studies and English Language Arts are in full swing within the walls of this classroom.
Currently ELA 8K is reading the novel Mystery at Latham House. This novel has 1-2 page chapters and is about two best friends, Toby and Ali, that explore a mansion that has long been abandoned. Supposedly, a young girl and a man died in this house. Stay tuned to see what the students discover about this mysterious house!
ELA 8J is working through a unit that will introduce them to good writing skills. Parts of speech and weekly sentence writing are the focus of this unit. At the end of the unit students will have the opporunity to make a video about a specific part of speech and this will be posted on their blogs so check back!
The social studies class started off learning about culture and how culture is taught to youth. They formed groups and created their own cultures that had their own beliefs, norms, institutions and activities that were vital to their new culture. They created a visual for their culture (map, flag, song, etc.) and then presented it to the rest of the class. The students will soon be posting these to their blogs so check those out!
I want to congratulate Laycen, Ronald, Joshua, and Troy for winning the noun/pronoun matching game that we played in ELA 8J. Enjoy your breakfast on Monday!
Check back often for more updates on the Happenings of Room 114!
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