8th Grade | Week 4

  • Welcome, eighth grade families, to week four of our optional learning opportunities.  As a reminder, these are a non-graded set of resources for your family to use during our extended closure.  Resources will be updated each week. If you have difficulty accessing the resources please call 360-279-5040 or email us at
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Reading and Writing

  • Mindful Writing Monday

    Choose one prompt from below and write in your journal (full page) or create a blog entry (300 words minimum). 

    Prompt 1: List three songs and describe why you chose each one:  A song by a band you wish were still together; One of your favorite 80s songs; A song that reminds you of summertime. 

    Prompt 2:  What age do you consider to be old?  Do you think age is just a number? If you could be any age, what would you be and why?

    Terrific Reading Tuesday 

    Read a chapter from a book of your choosing and answer the following questions:  Is this book realistic? Explain your thinking.

    World News Wednesday

    Go to  https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-student-opinion and choose a “student opinion article” that interests you. (Or read the printed article chosen for you.) 

    Respond to the questions that follow in your journal (full page), create a blog entry (300 words minimum), or discuss your opinions with an adult.

    Thoughtful Reading Thursday

    Read a chapter from a book of your choosing- answer the following question:

    If you were making a movie of this book, who would you cast?  Explain your choices.

    Fantastic Friday

    Anagrams: Complete the anagrams below. Clue: ice cream flavors

    • ANVIL AL
    • COOL CHEAT
    • STARRY BREW
    • IT IS A CHOP

    Additional Resources

    Option 1

    Complete days 11-15 on Scholastic Learn at Home 

    username: Learning20 | password: Clifford

    Option 2

    Virtually visit the Sno-Isle Library

8th Grade Math

Algebra

Geometry

  • Monday through Friday -- Computer Work

    Check your teacher’s google classroom page

    Online access can be found on Google Classroom

    Class code: gmqlodh

    Link to Week 3 Packet

Social-Emotional Learning

Science

Social Studies

  • Check your Social Studies Google Classroom for more activities!  Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. Ricketts, and Mrs. Turcotte will be adding activities each week, so go check it out!  The Class Code is iuas4os.

    Option 1

    Learn some geography with a couple of map exercises.

    Geography of Africa

    Geography of Antarctica

Technology

Family & Consumer Science

  • Students in Family & Consumer Science should join Mrs. Thompson’s Google Classroom. The code is dxeq66t

    This week I want to revisit clothing and color schemes!  Take the challenge to dress each day this week with a different color scheme.

    Monday Monochromatic Day

    Monochromatic means wearing the same color head to toe! Try to create a look to wear today at home.

    Tuesday Complementary Colors

    Wear colors together that are opposite of each other on the color wheel.

    Wednesday Analogous Colors

    Wear colors next to each other on the color wheel.

    Thursday Accented Neutral

    Take a neutral color like black, white or even denim and add an accent color!  Bam, you have an accented neutral color scheme!

    Friday Accessorize

    Add one accessory to jazz up your outfit today!  Try a hat, earrings, necklace…

PE

  • Estimated Daily Time:  15-30 minutes

    Monday

    Pick 5 different muscles to stretch.  Hold each stretch for 20 seconds.

    Tuesday

    Play with a friend.

    Wednesday

    Do as many curl-ups as you can.

    Thursday

    March Madness: take 60 imaginary jump shots.

    Friday

    Say your math facts while doing reverse lunges.

    Other Resources

Art

  • Monday

    Create a silhouette of something that describes a place where you would like to be right now. A silhouette is the outer line drawing of an object, and the inner portion is colored in black. I drew a palm tree, because I would like to be on the beach in Hawaii right now! 

    Tuesday

    Practice applying value, or shading, using the side of your pencil point and adjusting pressure to achieve light or dark shading inside a simple shape, like a rectangle or a square. 

    Wednesday

    Draw a new silhouette, only this time, instead of coloring the inside area black, vary pressure with the side of your pencil point and shade the inside of your silhouette with varying tone, from light to dark to light again.

    Thursday

    Using the side of your pencil point, while looking at a tree, capture the likeness of the tree using only value in place of lines.

    Friday

    Today is an open-choice drawing. Challenge yourself to try something difficult. Write about your discovery.

Music & Drama

  • Band

    Practice your instrument 30 minutes each day -- keep your chops in shape!

    Choir

    Look for an email from Mrs. McLean for activities to keep your voice and ear in tune!

    Drama

    Try this Drama Activity and have fun with puppets.

Spanish

  • These enrichment activities will also be posted in Google Classroom. See Google classroom for copies of papers, links, etc.

    1. Study your verbos 3 flashcards 2-5 minutes a day. 
    2. Review your notebook, Index 2, numbers 9-17. Review 2-3 entries a day for 5 minutes. Look at and read each page, and review the flashcards. You are reviewing the cow and monkey story and family. Make sure you also have memorized the super siete verbos on the diciembre calendario. These are the 7 most important verbs in Spanish and it is critical that you know them! Make sure your notebook is complete. If you are missing an entry, print it out from the Classwork page in Google classroom and put it into your notebook.
    3. GO OUTSIDE or if you don’t have a yard, look out the window. Each day look at what you see outside and select 1-2 things that you don’t know how to say and either look them up in a Spanish dictionary or https://www.spanishdict.com/ Make a label and put it on the object so others in your home can also learn how to say the thing.
    4. Practice Spanish using your free account at www.duolingo.com 5 minutes a day.