8 Red News and Updates

October 4, 2021


 

Important Dates

  • Tuesday, October 5 - Early Release Day - Dismissal at 11:35
  • Monday, October 11 - No School
  • Friday, October 15 - Last Day of Cycle 1 Allied Arts Rotations

Contact:

8Red@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us

The above email will reach all of the Team Teachers at once.

Dear Red Families,

It was so nice to meet so many of you last week.  Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to join us.

We kick off our Advisory program with an introductory assembly today and our first session tomorrow.  Advisory will use the Character Strong curriculum to help build a sense of community belonging.  Students will connect with a faculty member in small groups of 8 Red  (12-14 students) once a cycle (every six days).  It is our hope that this program will help students connect to an adult and other peers on our team.  

Just a reminder, please encourage your child to pack an extra face mask in their bag.  Recently there have been many lost or broken masks requiring students to go to the nurse.  Thank you in advance for packing a back-up!

Tomorrow is an early release day with dismissal beginning at 11:35

Sincerely,
8 Red Teachers

Class Updates

Civics/Social Studies: Mr. Kewriga

We are wrapping up our study of Greek/Athenian Democracy this week and discussing how the United States government adopted many of the same ideas.  We jump over to Rome mid-week to learn about how the Roman Republic impacted our current government.  

*grades for the Intro to Civics visual have been returned.


Science: Mr. DeNolf

  

We will continue to practice measuring with some volume activities.  Mid week we will discuss the relationship between mass and weight.  We will also look at the particles of the three states of matter.


Essential ELA: Ms.  Orlando

This week we are working through chapters 3 and 4 of our novel, Look Both Ways. Students will have a comprehension quiz on Wednesday on chapters 1-3, addressing literal questions that are taken straight from the text.This week we are working through chapters 3 and 4 of our novel, Look Both Ways. Students will have a comprehension quiz on Wednesday on chapters 1-3, addressing literal questions that are taken straight from the text.

Math: Ms. Mulcahy

Your child is taking home a quiz today that they took on Friday; ask them about it!

This week we will use precision to identify congruent figures as well as explore angle relationships in a set of parallel lines and within triangles.  

Aiming to take our first unit assessment on Wednesday, October 13th.


ELA: Ms. LaValley

We are working in chapter 5 of Look Both Ways this week. That will bring us to the halfway point, so we will have an assessment on Thursday for the reading comprehension and analysis standards in T1. On Friday, our grammar practice will focus on parts of speech.


Essential Math: Ms. Orlando

We will focus on rotations this week and practice rotating quadrilaterals around fixed points on a coordinate grid.

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