Parent Conference Week - a time to help our students see ways to achieve and become the best they can be!

8th Graders:
Thank you for your wonderful birthday wishes, kind comments, and some amazing art work!  You helped make it a special day!  May God bless you!!

Calendar:
ALL WEEK: Parent Conferences which 8th Graders ATTEND, 12:30 Dismissal, and BOOK FAIR - "Snow Much to Read"
Monday, October 21:  Drug Free wear Free Red Dress; Volleyball/Soccer Sports Banquet
Tuesday, October 22:  Let's Taco - bout Being Drug Free
Wednesday, October 23: Bee Kind, Bee Smart, Bee Drug Free; Girls Soccer/Boys Volleyball at OLM
Thursday, October 24: Too Cool for Drugs: wear Sunglasses and Neon ACCESSORIES WITH UNIFORM; Girls Soccer/Boys Volleyball at OLM
Friday, October 25: Team up AGAINST Drugs: wear sports team free dress; 6 - 8:30 Junior High Halloween Dance

Saturday, October 26: 5-8 Halloween Carnival - come ENJOY!!

 ? of the Day:  
10/21-25: Please have your parents read this information TONIGHT!! 
8th grade Parents ~ 
At conferences please write your child's "diploma name" and sign up to help with Halloween Carnival! You will see "Saint Boards" on display outside room 14.  These are to give you and your child ideas for the saint boards that they should be and have been working on for the past week.  They are due Monday, October 28.  The poster should be at least a 20 x ~30 tag or foam board.  It needs to indicate the saint without saying their name and give the factual details of their early life, adult life, why they are considered a saint: how they affected the world, and their legacy: patronages, shrines, devotions, symbols, etc.  The board should include visuals that indicate the saint and at least 1 picture of the saint.  Past visuals are on display outside room 14 when you come to conferences. These boards will be on display at the museum along with any artifacts the student has found or created to help depict their saint.  The "Saint Wax museum" is the culmination of the 1 1/2 month long project about saints.  Your student should have turned in a biographical report on a saint of their choice this past Tuesday, and a " connection to their saint" essay today.   This too will be on display at the Wax Museum.  Reminder from previous BLOGS: The Saint Wax Museum is in our, OLM, auditorium from 10-12 next Friday, November 1st.  This is following the All Saints' Day mass that morning at 8:15.  The students will come to school in costume as they will participate in the mass - in costume.  We then take down mass, set up the museum, and open the doors at 10:00.  This is also a 12:30 dismissal day as it is the 1st Friday of the month. Please visit our museum if you can and encourage others to join you -it is a special experience.

8th Grade Homework
Religion:
10/24: Sunday Readings Bible search and Connections due Monday;   Saint Boards due Mon. Oct. 28; Saint Costumes and Artifacts due Tues. Oct 29th.  You will be in costume for mass and the wax museum on Friday, Nov. 1 All Saints' Day, 12:30 Dismissal. 
10/21-24: Saint Connection Essay due Wed. 23rd; Sorrowful Mystery story filled out in Faith Journal [if don't know check website: theholyrosary.org/sorrowfulmysteries] due Thurs. 24th;  Saint Boards due Mon. Oct. 28; Saint Costumes and Artifacts due Tues. Oct 29th.  You will be in costume for mass and the wax museum on Friday, Nov. 1 All Saints' Day, 12:30 Dismissal. 
 
U.S. History:
10/21: Cornell Notes for Ch1 S5 were due on Monday - please complete as these could have been completed last week.

Physical Science: 
10/21: Read and Cornell Note Ch1 S4

Algebra:

7th Grade Homework:
Life Science:
10/23: Write facts about the Affects of Drugs on the Human Brain as seen/heard in science today. 
10/21: complete today's class assignment: Cornell Note Mammals p. 392-403 - due Wed.

World History:
10/24:  Study for Friday: quiz on 25 European countries: Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom: Scotland, England, Wales, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
10/21: Write locations of 7 new European countries due Wed.: Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic; Study for Thursday: quiz on 25 European countries: Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom: Scotland, England, Wales, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.