Thursday, February 10 is Buck-A-Shoes and Socks for Holy Childhood.  Thank you to all the students who participate.  If you would like more information on Holy Childhood please look at the Holy Childhood website: http://www.hcakids.org.

             -- In literature, the students will be reading “The All American Slurp” in the literature        books.  We will celebrate Chinese New Year on Friday, February 11.  The 6^th grade           students  will have a Chinese lunch. 

             -- In language arts the 6^th grade students will be writing their autobiographies.  We are starting with the paragraph “A Favorite Childhood Memory”.  Students will be writing using the past tense of verbs.

             -- The 7^th grade is completing Chapter 5 on interpreting graphs.

             --The 8^th grade is completing section 5, Factoring.  The students will be practicing all types of factoring this week.  Please continue to search the internet for lessons on factoring polynomials.  The test on section 5 will be next week.

 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade math classes – an excellent website to review topics is: www.onlinemathlearning.com

6^th grade: fractions:  http://www.gamequarium.com/fractions.html

               graphs:     http://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

 7^th grade:  http://www.gamequarium.com/data.html

 8^th grade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EviL0_ZWe_o&feature=player_detailpage

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH4YVa6PeWs&feature=player_detailpage

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAqEIpx8fSQ&feature=player_detailpage

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMUrMPsukM&feature=player_detailpage

These are YouTube videos.  You can also search for factoring polynomials.