St. Gerard School - Grade 8

It is October and school is back into full swing. The grade eight class is busy learning and studying.

We have begun our investigations into our early human ancestors in social studies. We will be examining the way of life of our earliest human ancestors, while we learn about the factors and events which led to the development of agriculture and civilization.

We are about to begin our weekly T.U.S.C. presentations in ELA.  Feel free to ask you child about what they are researching and presenting each week. We are almost finished our first novel. Students are listening and keeping a journal with images and written response to each chapter. The class seems to be enjoying the novel, Silverwing by Kenneth Opel.

We are conducting some investigations while learning some new vocab and verb conjugation in French with our second unit “Chasse aux Indices.”

Our annual Halloween party is coming up on October, 19^th. Tickets must be purchased in advance, and each student must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

A Reminder to everyone, we need to sell 30 copies of the yearbook before the second week of December. Without enough yearbooks ordered in advance we will unfortunately be unable to create a yearbook again this year.