8th Grade

Teacher: Miss Genovesi

Miss Genovesi also teaches 5th - 8th Math.

January Highlights 

8^th Science: The students are completing their units on anatomy and will begin dissection this month. All the science fair projects are complete and the students will begin peer review and presentations shortly before the actual Science Fair. 

8^th English: The students will be reviewing their prepositions. Also, they will be learning poetry concerning oceans the last week of January into February and constructing concrete poems on the oceans.

8th Social Studies: the students will learn about the Jazz Age and the end of the 1920’s.

8^th Math: The students will be continuing to work with the real number system.  Then it’s time to dive into the ocean and explore scales, areas, perimeters, surface area, volume, number systems, squaring/square rooting, and percents.  (Algebra: The students will be finishing up working on solving and applying proportions before also diving into the ocean to explore the same topics as above.)

8^th Religion: The students will be starting to prepare for Confirmation.  Don’t forget about the Rite of Enrollment 5pm Mass this month!  J

8^th Reading: The students will be continuing to read, analyze, and discuss their first novel Animal Farm by George Orwell before moving on to oceanic poetry. 

Spanish: This year the students will be working on many topics including greetings, the alphabet, colors, numbers, animals, shapes, jobs, and places.

 *Thank you to those who supported our Pancake Breakfast with Santa!*