Monday Note Grades 6 - 8

Thank you for your participation in the 25th Anniversary celebration we enjoyed yesterday. It was fun to see our Redeemer family gathered and focused on our reason for being: to glorify God and to teach children about His grace and mercy.

6th Grade:

Cheerleaders—please bring in your knit skort (the one you wore at the Christmas parade) to Mrs. Grubb. I’d previously forgotten about this—unfortunately, it is not yours to keep.

We have been working very hard in the 6th Grade. We have been taking class notes, reading books, taking quizzes, and taking tests. Today and tomorrow we are preparing for the chapel presentation about China on Wednesday. (Students should be researching their topics on the internet or other source.)

I have been trying to get papers back quickly so students will know where they stand in terms of grades. To inform you of all the grades, I will send home current grade sheets for social studies, reading, religion, and English this week. . A big test we will be having on Wednesday is the test on China (Chapter 24 of the geography text). Any questions you have, please write a note.

This week we are starting our last book for the year, Across Five Aprils. I have distributed a few pages of “Quiz Time” for each of the book’s five sections. Students will take notes based on the questions asked on the Quiz Time sheets. While I plan to read this to the class while they take notes, they may need to do some reading on their own from time to time. I have a classroom set of these books for student use. As usual, we will have an objective test, an essay test, and the AR test on this book by May 14th.

For religion, I plan to finish most of Unit 6, Lessons 58-76. We have a video of the Book of Matthew, which will help us move quickly through this section. The last religion test will be adapted to cover whichever lessons we can get to before May 14th.

We have a couple of weeks left to encourage our students to reach the AR goal for the year: sixty points. Fourteen of the nineteen students in our class have reached their goals. What a great thing it would be if everyone reached the goal! (Across Five Aprils is worth eleven points, so that will be a help.)

Computer: Students should have turned in their recipes by now. Even if they received a zero for this assignment it needs to be in by Wednesday. I will be gone next week as I am traveling with the 8th grade to Washington DC. Mrs. Norman will be the substitute in the Media Center. She will instruct students to create a menu using the recipes they have brought in. Students who still do not have their recipes brought in at this time will receive a zero for this classwork assignment.

7th Grade:

Cheerleaders—please bring in your knit skort (the one you wore at the Christmas parade) to Mrs. Grubb. I’d previously forgotten about this—unfortunately, it is not yours to keep.

Computer: Students have begun a project entitled “If the Dead Could Talk”. Go to the web site www.redeemerstuart.com/media.html and click on the links for this project. Students have been informed of the project deadlines and requirements. The project was assigned last Friday and the first portion of the project is due this Wednesday, May 5th. Students were also told last Friday that they must have their computer folders in class each day for a homework grade. The first portion, Focus question answers, may be done in class and at home. It may be turned in on a disk that contains nothing else but this assignment. I will be gone next week as I am traveling with the 8th grade to Washington DC. Mrs. Norman will be the substitute in the Media Center. She will allow the students to begin the second portion of the project that is the PowerPoint Presentation. This portion will be due May17th. On May 17th the diary is also due. Once again check out www.redeemerstuart.com/media.html if you have additional questions or concerns.

Algebra ½: We will cover Lessons 123, 124, 126, and 131 this week. Test 30 is Monday.

Language Arts: Spelling Unit 33 is this week. We will the English Chapter 22 Test on Tuesday or Wednesday. We will Start Chapter 26 next.

Science: The Chapter 15 test is Tuesday. We will start Chapter 16 Wednesday.

Religion: We will do Lessons 33 and 34 this week and have the Unit 3 test (Lessons27-34) on Friday.

Reading: Test Thursday on pp. 524 and ff. and on “Checkouts” vocabulary.



8th Grade:

MANDATORY DC MEETING TONIGHT—7 P.M. IN THE 8TH GRADE CLASSROOM.

Cheerleaders—please bring in your knit skort (the one you wore at the Christmas parade) to Mrs. Grubb. I’d previously forgotten about this—unfortunately, it is not yours to keep.

AR Points: So many of the students are close to that 80-point goal—keep reading as Mr. Careccia has promised a Haagen-Dazs coupon if you reach that goal!

Computer: Students will begin a review of Type to Learn this week. This will take us through until the end of the year. I am honored and excited to be traveling with your students to DC next week and am praying for a fun a safe trip. Additionally, I pray that as your child graduates he/she is blessed by knowing that our Savior will guide them as they journey into this new phase of their education. They have been a joy to teach and they will be missed! Mrs. Hascup

Science: Chapter 15 test is on Tuesday.

Algebra ½: See the 7th grade note.

Social Studies: We will begin a simulation of the Oregon Trail after tomorrow’s Lewis and Clark test. Students will receive daily grades on their participation in the simulation.