Red Ribbon Week
This is the time each year when schools across the nation plan activities that promote alcohol and drug awareness and prevention. For more information, visit redribbon.org. The theme this year is "Life Is Your Journey. Travel Drug Free." One way students can participate is by dressing up each day this week:
Monday: Crazy Sock Day - Sock it to drugs and wear crazy socks!
Tuesday: Crazy Hair Day - Show us your uniqueness by wearing a crazy hairdo!
Wednesday: Sports Jersey Day - Team up against drugs and wear a sports jersey!
Thursday: Red Out - Wear a red shirt in support of Red Ribbon Week!
Hilsman Health Center is Now Open!
The Hilsman Health Center is now officially open! In order for students to be served, they need to have a parent/guardian fill out a consent form and return it to Nurse Caitlyn. Once the form is returned, we can schedule an appointment. If students have their consent form signed (and on file) and we get verbal permission, our nurses can walk students to the Health Center while they're at school if it's for urgent care (fever, asthma visit, etc.). Otherwise, it operates like a regular doctor's office! They currently do not have a phone number (they're working on it!), but appointments can still be made through the Athens Neighborhood Health Center. They are also taking walk-in visits for the time being!
Have any questions? Send Nurse Caitlyn an email at kurishc@clarke.k12.ga.us.
Fall Holiday Break This Weekend
Students do not have school on Friday 11/1, Monday, 11/4, and Tuesday 11/5. Teachers have a workday on Tuesday 11/5, which is also election day here in Athens. Need more information about election day, like where you are registered to vote or a sample ballot? Go to https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do for this information and more about the election.
Important Upcoming Dates
Please be aware of the following upcoming dates and events:
Content News
Math News:
8th Grade
Monday: Volume of Spheres
Tuesday: Volume Review (cylinders, cones, & spheres)
Wednesday: Unit 2 Review
Thursday: Unit 2 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Our Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday. This will be the first major grade of Quarter 2 and will have a big impact on overall grades, so it is important that students do their best and show what they know! Students should be studying each night from their Unit 2 Study Guide, as well as this list of Unit 2 Study Resources.
Accelerated Math
Monday: Solving Inequalities
Tuesday: Solving Inequalities
Wednesday: Reasoning with and Solving Inequalities / Unit 4 Review
Thursday: Unit 4 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**More specific information on assignments, upcoming dates, etc. will be specified via group email.
ELA News:
Monday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Tuesday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Wednesday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Thursday: Terrific Thursday - Silent Sustained Reading
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
Science News:
8th Grade
Monday: Drawing Models
Tuesday: Reading Posters
Wednesday: Reading Posters
Thursday: Model Project
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Monday Binder Check
High School Science
Monday: Isotope
Tuesday: Radioactivity
Wednesday: Radioactivity
Thursday: Fusion and Fission
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Monday Binder Check
Social Studies News:
Monday: Becoming a Royal Colony: New Policies and Advances
Tuesday: Georgia's 3 Royal Governors
Wednesday: Unit 3 Review Part 1 Review
Thursday: Unit 3 Part 1 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
Enjoy the weekend, and go Panthers!
This is the time each year when schools across the nation plan activities that promote alcohol and drug awareness and prevention. For more information, visit redribbon.org. The theme this year is "Life Is Your Journey. Travel Drug Free." One way students can participate is by dressing up each day this week:
Monday: Crazy Sock Day - Sock it to drugs and wear crazy socks!
Tuesday: Crazy Hair Day - Show us your uniqueness by wearing a crazy hairdo!
Wednesday: Sports Jersey Day - Team up against drugs and wear a sports jersey!
Thursday: Red Out - Wear a red shirt in support of Red Ribbon Week!
Hilsman Health Center is Now Open!
The Hilsman Health Center is now officially open! In order for students to be served, they need to have a parent/guardian fill out a consent form and return it to Nurse Caitlyn. Once the form is returned, we can schedule an appointment. If students have their consent form signed (and on file) and we get verbal permission, our nurses can walk students to the Health Center while they're at school if it's for urgent care (fever, asthma visit, etc.). Otherwise, it operates like a regular doctor's office! They currently do not have a phone number (they're working on it!), but appointments can still be made through the Athens Neighborhood Health Center. They are also taking walk-in visits for the time being!
Have any questions? Send Nurse Caitlyn an email at kurishc@clarke.k12.ga.us.
Fall Holiday Break This Weekend
Students do not have school on Friday 11/1, Monday, 11/4, and Tuesday 11/5. Teachers have a workday on Tuesday 11/5, which is also election day here in Athens. Need more information about election day, like where you are registered to vote or a sample ballot? Go to https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do for this information and more about the election.
Important Upcoming Dates
Please be aware of the following upcoming dates and events:
- 10/28-10/31- Red Ribbon Week at Hilsman
- 11/1, 11/4, 11/5- Fall Holiday (No school)
- 11/13- Orchestra Fall Concert
- 11/25-11/29- Thanksgiving Break
- 12/13- Lunch-A-Palooza
- 12/20- Last day of first term
- 2/11- 8th Grade Field Trip to Cedar Shoals High School
Content News
Math News:
8th Grade
Monday: Volume of Spheres
Tuesday: Volume Review (cylinders, cones, & spheres)
Wednesday: Unit 2 Review
Thursday: Unit 2 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Our Unit 2 Test will be on Thursday. This will be the first major grade of Quarter 2 and will have a big impact on overall grades, so it is important that students do their best and show what they know! Students should be studying each night from their Unit 2 Study Guide, as well as this list of Unit 2 Study Resources.
Accelerated Math
Monday: Solving Inequalities
Tuesday: Solving Inequalities
Wednesday: Reasoning with and Solving Inequalities / Unit 4 Review
Thursday: Unit 4 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**More specific information on assignments, upcoming dates, etc. will be specified via group email.
ELA News:
Monday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Tuesday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Wednesday: Researching the Reporting Experience
Thursday: Terrific Thursday - Silent Sustained Reading
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
Science News:
8th Grade
Monday: Drawing Models
Tuesday: Reading Posters
Wednesday: Reading Posters
Thursday: Model Project
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Monday Binder Check
High School Science
Monday: Isotope
Tuesday: Radioactivity
Wednesday: Radioactivity
Thursday: Fusion and Fission
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
**Monday Binder Check
Social Studies News:
Monday: Becoming a Royal Colony: New Policies and Advances
Tuesday: Georgia's 3 Royal Governors
Wednesday: Unit 3 Review Part 1 Review
Thursday: Unit 3 Part 1 Test
Friday: NO SCHOOL!
Connections News
Orchestra Concert Wednesday 11/13 at 6:30pm
Our Fall Concert in almost here! Orchestra students in all grades will perform. Students should report to the orchestra room at 6:00pm t tune. The concert will begin at 6:30pm and last approximately 35 minutes. Concert attire is a black collared shirt, and khaki or black long pants (please no shorts or jeans). Concerts are summative grades in orchestra class and attendance is required. Please let Ms. Floyd know if you have any questions. We can't wait to show off our hard work!
Art:
This week, 8th grade art will be making clay monster pinch pots and Caladera self-portraits!
Family & Consumer Science:
This week, we will be learning about soft skills and why they are important in the workplace, filling out practice job applications and deciding on some references we could use when applying for a job, and investigating different types of post-secondary education options necessary for careers of interest to us.
Spanish:
This week, we will be learning about describing classroom objects, places in school, saying where things are located, and Gramatica - the verbs "estar" and "ir."
8th Grade Faculty
Math:
Orchestra Concert Wednesday 11/13 at 6:30pm
Our Fall Concert in almost here! Orchestra students in all grades will perform. Students should report to the orchestra room at 6:00pm t tune. The concert will begin at 6:30pm and last approximately 35 minutes. Concert attire is a black collared shirt, and khaki or black long pants (please no shorts or jeans). Concerts are summative grades in orchestra class and attendance is required. Please let Ms. Floyd know if you have any questions. We can't wait to show off our hard work!
Art:
This week, 8th grade art will be making clay monster pinch pots and Caladera self-portraits!
Family & Consumer Science:
This week, we will be learning about soft skills and why they are important in the workplace, filling out practice job applications and deciding on some references we could use when applying for a job, and investigating different types of post-secondary education options necessary for careers of interest to us.
Spanish:
This week, we will be learning about describing classroom objects, places in school, saying where things are located, and Gramatica - the verbs "estar" and "ir."
8th Grade Faculty
Math:
Tonya Ward, wardt@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mark Martin, martinm@clarke.k12.ga.us
Conor Naughton, naughtonc@clarke.k12.ga.us
Jason Pratt, prattj@clarke.k12.ga.us
ELA:
ELA:
Eric Blake, blakee@clarke.k12.ga.us
Cindy Blair, blairc2@clarke.k12.ga.us
Tangernika Winston, winstont@clarke.k12.ga.us
Linda Allen, allenl3@clarke.12.ga.us
Science:
Science:
Diarra Mosley, mosleyd@clarke.k12.ga.us
Lara Zwald, zwaldl@clarke.k12.ga.us
Lara Zwald, zwaldl@clarke.k12.ga.us
Brandi Holcomb, holcombb@clarke.k12.ga.us
Karen Myers, myersk@clarke.k12.ga.us
Social Studies:
Karen Myers, myersk@clarke.k12.ga.us
Social Studies:
Nyla Bell, belln@clarke.k12.ga.us
Morgan Archer, archerm@clarke.k12.ga.us
Brandi Holcomb, holcombb@clarke.k12.ga.us
Angela Bright, brighta@clarke.k12.ga.us
Brandi Holcomb, holcombb@clarke.k12.ga.us
Angela Bright, brighta@clarke.k12.ga.us
Enjoy the weekend, and go Panthers!
