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Reality U for 8th grade is on Tuesday, December 10th. 8th grade Band Combined concert @ the KMHS theatre on Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30 pm CLIMB on Wednesday 6th grade has remediation/enrichment, 7th grade House Cup, 8th grade advocacy. 6th and 7th grade Band Combined concert @ KMHS theatre on Wednesday, December 11th at 6:30 pm. 6th and 8th grade have RI testing on Thursday and Friday. Student Council Penny Wars will begin Friday morning. Students will deposit pennies in their homeroom bin. The homeroom that collects the most pennies will win a pajama, hot chocolate, movie celebration on Friday, December 20th. 6th grade Chorus: Christmas at Piedmont on Saturday, December 14th at 3:30 pm. Early Release on Thursday and Friday, December 19 and 20. This week in 6th grade ELA, we will continue working on the PENS sentence writing strategy. We will be practicing using the MARK strategy to check sentences for subjects, verbs, capitalization, punctuation and making sure the sentences make sense. We will also be working on writing sentences with action and linking verbs. Students must master each segment of the strategy before they move to the next level. Students will also be working on a USA Test Prep assignment on Friday. Homework this week will be working on assigned worksheet based on their performance on each segment of the strategy. This week in 8th grade ELA, we will be working on our Definition of a Hero Project. Students will be learning about the negation definition strategy. They will be selecting a Hero from either the real world, in literature or from their lives. They will create a project explaining their Hero, what they contribute to society and defining their Hero using the negation strategy. They will also be writing a letter to their Hero explaining why they chose them as their Hero. 8th grade students will be participating in the RealityU program on Tuesday.
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