8th Grade Monday Letter
September 13th, 2009
The PTL Open House is tomorrow at 6:30 pm. We usually begin in the church and then we are able to move to the classrooms. PTL also has refreshments. I will have brochures and pictures out from the Chicago trip. I have several female chaperones signed up already. We will need a minimum of 4 male chaperones on the trip. Please check your schedules and consider going. It is a very packed but fun trip. It’s a lot of fun to be around the 8th grade at that time of year.
Please remember to continue selling tickets for the Giggles comedy show! The ticket prices will be $10 each. Please remind the people that there is a 2 drink minimum, soda is included in the options. Let them know that the drinks do not count until the show actually starts. If you are able to sell all 12 of your tickets and have more names please send those names to other classmates. If you need names, please let me know as soon as possible so that I can get that information out to people. We will need the money turned in by this Friday, September 18th. Some students have already turned in some orders. I will need it by then so that I can turn it in and get the tickets and order forms back to people for distribution. We are hoping to sell them at Open House on Tuesday as well.
We sing in church for the first time on Sunday, October 11th at the 10:45 am service. Please meet in the balcony after the 9:30 service lets out in order to warm up our voices. Check your open house packet for our four other singing times and please mark them on your calendars.
Continue bringing in pictures for the Graduation CD. We need baby pictures first, about 10-15 pictures age birth to five years old. After that, we will need any school pictures from earlier grades especially field trips and class parties. The students will start to scan them right away in computer classes. I would recommend using some of the time over the weekend to look through some of your pictures. I just briefly touched on this in the Open House Packet so if you have any questions please email or call.
This week we will study:
Religion: We will study the four Gospels and how God used the writers and their experience to tell Jesus’ Story and the plan of salvation God had for us.
Confirmation: Memory work #2 Commandment #1(p.55), Memory Question #2(19), John 3:16(#34), Deuteronomy 6:4(345)
Literature: We will continue our unit on Mythology and start reading in class the novel The Trojan War.
History: We will continue note taking starting with Chapter 18.
English: We will continue to look at types of sentences, subjects and predicates. We will most likely finish this week and have our first English test one week from Wednesday.
Geography: We will do an overview of a United States map and US Geography. We will study the United States in sections. We will begin with the west coast.
Spelling: We will have a pretest on Lesson 3 today. We will have the test on Thursday and their spelling contract will be due on that day. Below are the Lesson 3 spelling words.
Yours in Christ,
Ms. Corn
Lesson 3
1. recommend
2. different
3. graffiti
4. successfully
5. embarrass
6. necessary
7. parallel
8. Halloween
9. Connecticut
10. approximately
11. commitment
12. accommodate
13. accomplishment
14. possession
15. harass
16. confetti
17. abbreviation
18. interruption
19. cinnamon
20. mayonnaise