Upcoming Events:
Student Led Conferences are next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. If you have not signed up or forgot your time, click on the link here. Remember this time is for your child to share his/her strengths and weaknesses, academic goals, social goals and personal goals as well as show their learning in our class. So please bring your student and be prompt as there is a limited amount of time for each student.
Minimum days next week are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Dismissal time is 12:00pm. There will be no Rubios lunch on Friday.
Week in Review:
We kicked off our Art Math and Architecture Project this week (AMA) We began by asking the question, "How has art and math influenced architecture?" Our first step in answering this question is collecting information. We started by gathering information about bridges and buildings such as what are the elements of buildings and what types of bridges are there? We will take a look at buildings from our past and compare them to those that are around us now. We will learn how geometry and algebra plays an important role in the planning and building of structures. We plan on taking a field trip in November to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as well as a local field trip to Balboa Park to investigate elements of art in the architecture of the buildings there. We may also take a day for a San Diego bridge tour.
During math skills, students practiced working on integers. There will be a skills test Friday October 21. Our language arts class finished the first draft of their creative writing piece. Students were given a deadline to have their story completed by Thursday Oct 14. They will begin peer editing by 3 students on Tuesday Oct 18. Their final draft will be due Friday October 21.
We began our Cross Class Connection with the 1st grade. All classes are connected to another class on campus to have an opportunity to share their work, to read together and to be in a mentorship type roll. The first graders met in the eighth grade classroom for a get to know you activity. We had so much fun and look forward to working together this year.
Rubios Friday was changed to Thursday since school was out Friday. We made $68.09. Besides the fact that a whole class was on a field trip, we decided the drop in lunches could have been because many students did not realize Rubios day was changed this week. We decided it might be a good idea to advertise more instead of just relying on the Sunday IA calls to remind parents about Friday lunches.
A special thank you to Jennifer for picking up donated carpet for our science lab. And those eighth graders who stayed after school to move furniture and roll out the carpet... you rock!
We had some changes in our 8th grade staff and are doing the best we can to make the transition for the kids as seamless as possible. As expected, the class is taking to the changes in stride. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. lisa@innovationsacademy.org
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