Field Research Findings

The class had the opportunity to share the data and conclusions from their human trials in a large variety of experiments. Well done, scientists!

Libros Infantiles

Eighth grade students learned the uses of both the future and conditional tenses. After mastering both tenses, students wrote and illustrated children's books similar to those written by Laura Numeroff. Students shared their books with some of the elementary grades. The stories were creative, humorous and demonstrated their knowledge of the future and conditional tenses.

Field Research Experiment Day

Eighth graders and all their participants had great fun putting these well-designed experiments into action. Tests ranged from tasting 3 different-colored mystery liquids and determining their flavor, to listening to and reading a sentence and answering questions about it, to taking a multiplication test while listening to music! All ages participated in the name of science. Now on to analyzing data!!

Storytelling and Storywriting

Eighth graders were put to the challenge to come up with their own story using only the preterite and imperfect tenses. Students included at least three grammatical structures, vocabulary, and a storyboard illustrating their story. Later, students involved their classmates in the storytelling teaching them the grammatical structures and vocabulary. All of the stories were well-written and creative. It was neat to see them lead their classmates in the lessons. As you can tell by the pictures, they really enjoyed this project.

Need help with your EDF?

Watch this! Independent, dependent, constants and controls explained to review at your own pace. 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAtW5yUYGA

Blood Moon

Hope you're all having a great spring break! Since you don't have to get up for school tomorrow it should be worth staying up to see this very cool lunar eclipse... Starts after 11pm!

http://www.cbs8.com/story/25243711/full-lunar-eclipse-visible-across-sd-county-tonight

Perú

Eighth graders finished reading the book, Los Baker van a Perú, which tells the story of a family who won a trip to Perú. Students embarked on the family's adventures through Perú visiting cities like Lima and Cuzco as well as Machu Picchu. Being that one of our eighth graders has family from Perú, DW was able to share some of his photos from his visit to Lima, Cuzco and Machu Picchu. DW shared some indigenous clothing with his classmates. Students were intrigued by the Inca ruins and the brightly colored indigenous clothing. Thanks DW for a wonderful presentation!