Saturday, October 5, 2019

8th Grade News: October 7-11, 2019


General News
Community Health Night 2019 @ the Hilsman Healthcare Center
The doctor is in at Hilsman and Gaines! All students and staff at Gaines Elementary will soon have easy access to sick visits, well visits, immunizations, dental services, counseling services, and more.

The Hilsman Healthcare Center, located behind the gym, will have its grand opening on October 8th, and will coincide with CCSD's Community Health Night! The overall goal of Community Health Night is to connect families with local health resources. Last year, we had a variety of health and wellness related vendors including asthma & diabetes educators, vision & dental resources, the Clarke County Health Department, National EMS, behavioral health providers, exercise and nutrition resources, and many more. We had over 75 vendors and 500+ attendees!

Fall Picture Day
Fall Picture Day at Hilsman will be this Friday, October 11th. Students must dress in uniforms. Flyers will be coming home soon with more information!

Band Concert - October 14th
The first band concert of the year will take place on Monday, October 14th at 6:30pm in the Hilsman gym. Band students are required to attend and need to arrive by 6:10 in their concert uniform (khaki pants and the black band polo or a plain black polo). The concert will last for approximately 45 minutes and students are expected to stay for the entire concert. Come see our students perform!

Parent Conferences
There is a new schedule for conferences this year! On Wednesday, October 16th, students will be dismissed early and teachers will hold conferences until 8pm. On Thursday, October 17th, students are off all day and teachers will hold conferences from 8:00am - 8:00pm. There is no school for students or teachers on Friday, October 18th.

You will be receiving more information from your student's homeroom teacher soon as they begin to schedule conferences for each student.

Important Upcoming Dates
Please be aware of the following upcoming dates and events:
  • 10/8- Grand Opening of Hilsman Healthcare Center
  • 10/11- Fall Picture Day
  • 10/11- Basketball tryouts begin (must have a physical)
  • 10/14- Band Concert in Hilsman Gym @ 6:30pm
  • 10/16 & 10/17- Parent Conferences
  • 10/18- Fall Break (No school)
  • 11/1, 11/4, 11/5- Fall Holiday (No school)
  • 11/13- Orchestra Fall Concert
  • 11/25-11/29- Thanksgiving Break
  • 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: Using the Pythagorean Theorem to find distances
Tuesday: Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem
Wednesday: Quiz over Pythagorean Theorem
Thursday: Pythagorean Theorem with 3D shapes
Friday: Creating the Wheel of Theodorus

Accelerated Math
Monday: Representations of functions
Tuesday: Representations of functions
Wednesday: Unit 3 Review
Thursday: Unit 3 Test
Friday: Dimensional analysis

**More specific information on assignments, upcoming dates, etc. will be specified via group email.

ELA News:
Monday: Unit 1 UPA Part 1
Tuesday: Unit 1 UPA Part 2 / Media Center visit
Wednesday: Introduction to Unit 2: Investigative Journalism / Media Center visit
Thursday: Writing on Demand- The Narrative / Media Center visit
Friday: Freedom Reading

Science News:
8th Grade
Monday: Build an Atom PhET simulation
Tuesday: Atoms reading and graphic organizer
Wednesday: Bohr Models
Thursday: Element ID activity
Friday: DSP Quiz

**Monday Binder Check

High School Science
Monday: Physical/Chemical properties; Build an Atom PhET simulation
Tuesday: Atoms reading and graphic organizer
Wednesday: Bohr Models
Thursday: Element ID activity
Friday: DSP Quiz, Bohr model practice

**Monday Binder Check

Social Studies News:
Monday: Intro to Unit 3
Tuesday: American Natives in Georgia Before Exploration
Wednesday: Mississippian Indians Reading
Thursday: European Exploration
Friday: European Exploration

Connections News
All 9-Week Connections Classes will change this week. Make sure your grade is where it needs to be! Students will receive new schedules and begin their new Connections Classes on Monday.

Spanish:
This will be a very important week in Spanish I! We will be learning how to use the verb "ser," which means "to be," a few food items, and we will begin learning how to use subject pronouns with verb.

Family & Consumer Science:
We will spend the first week together learning procedures and routines, figuring out what Family and Consumer Science is all about, and learning how we can demonstrate employability skills at school and in our daily lives.

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:
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:
Diarra Mosley, mosleyd@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:
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


                                                      Enjoy the weekend, and go Panthers!

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