Big Sister/ Little Sister 2017-2018
Making Friends with Mr. Maslanka's Eighth Grade Homeroom
The girls enjoyed our first Little Sister/Big Sister event. Some were excited to finally have a "sister." Lots of brothers in Room M02! Our next event is in early November and we will travel to the Middle School for that.
We've been reading about "fake news" in Newsela. The girls read about the benefit of eating ice cream first thing in the morning and later learned it was just more fake news. The writing lab continued the fake news theme. The girls were so creative and reported on their own fake news. Faux newspapers were generated and added to a collaborative slideshow. The girls practiced writing positive and thoughtful comments about each other's fake news stories. We discussed the power of words and the girls understand that words written on the Internet never go away. Here are their clever articles:
Collaborative writing continued with some "un-photoshopped" horses sporting mustaches. The girls wrote funny stories about these cute creatures and worked math terms into the tales. I love how they jump into all assignments with eager creativity.
I've asked the girls to Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Your daughter can explain the acronym. We've been working with order of operations and solving for variables in math. We will spend much of next week reviewing Unit One and the girls will be ready to tackle the unit test the following week.
History4Fourthies has us at the turn of the 20th century. We began this decade reading about everyday women who did incredible things. We looked at one of Thomas Edison's first silent movie and discussed how our idea of entertainment changes throughout history. We will spend next week exploring more key events of the 1900's.
One more thing before I wrap up this post. I mentioned our class chapel at "Parents' Night." Our October chapel had to be changed and we will now do our class chapel in April.
Class Leadership Week of 10/2
Ambassadors- Caelan and Ceci
Reporters- McKenzie and Lailah
Photographer- AnneClare
Nuts and Bolts:
Information needed a parent response is highlighted.
Lend a Helping Paw- Florida * Bring in a dollar on Monday and wear jeans to support this project.
Blessing of the Animals- Monday morning @8:15 Details here.
Swimming begins 10/3 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday) Swim letter with details. Click here.
*Sign-up for Parents' Technology Night 10/5 @ 7:00 Please click here to sign-up
*Fall Conference Sign-up (Please let me know if you need a different time/day. I will work around your schedule)
Homework- Homework is posted each Friday for family planning.
Special Week Girl- Grace
Carpool Helpers- Grace will represent our class next week
Girls-
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