Daily Archives: January 25, 2016

Student Blogs

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All year 8 and 9 students will have their work and comments displayed on the Class Blog as part of their learning. A few year 9 students have also been given the opportunity to create their own Student Blog which will form part of our Class Blog. While these students are allowed to be creative in their thinking and posting, all work and comments will require to be approved by me before they are published.

If you would like to access these blogs you will require a password, available from me at any time. Please remember the students are starting with a blank page and it will take time to become an actual blog.

Please support our Class Blog and our students by visiting the blog regularly and commenting on the students’ work and other posts. However, please read the Blogging Guidelines first.

Geraldton Young Writers’ Program – Year 8

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This is an excellent program for students who enjoy writing.  I believe there is a cost involved and this information will be sent out by the school, along with permission slips, prior to the first workshop.

2016 Dates for interested Year 8 students are as follows –

Term 1 – Thursday, 17 March – Author: Phillip Gwynne

Term 2 – Thursday, 2 June – Author: Barry Jonsberg

Term 3 – Thursday, 4 August – Author: AJ Betts

Term 4 – Thursday, 13 October – Author: Catherine Bateson

To be held at John Willcock College.

A Word About Reading

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Reading as a teenager leads to success in school and in life. It expands vocabulary, writing skills, general knowledge, comprehension skills and often helps students understand complex ideas.  Teenagers are able to escape their own life and problems for a while and reading can often give them the skills to solve their own problems as well as opening up a world outside of their own while they learn about other countries and people from different cultures.  And, for many teenagers when they find authors they enjoy, reading is fun.

I encourage all students to read at home as much as possible – whether it be the newspaper, an online blog like this one, a novel, a biography or another non-fiction book about something that interests them.  Some students don’t know what to read because they don’t know what is out there and so don’t know what they like.

Term 1: Year 8 Spelling List

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The following is a list of words students must learn for the week’s spelling test and class competition. Included is the “Word Attack” task they must complete which will help them learn how to spell the words.  Students will be tested on spelling and meanings of the words and the Word Attack tasks will be collected for marking.

All students have a copy of this sheet.  If they lose it they will need to ask me for another or work from this page.

 

Learn for Week 2 – Word Attack Sheet : Synonymsachieve

definition

malignant

quintuplets

aghast

dependable

manageable

raspberry

banquet

discussion

Learn for Week 3 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Groups

megastructure

receipt

believe

disease

microphone

recognition

cautious

disgraceful

monitor

reindeer

Learn for Week 4 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Poster

addiction

doubt

monolith

relief

bevel

electrician

monopoly

restaurant

bicycle

embarrassed

Learn for Week 5 –

 Word Attack Sheet : Sentences

moral

reusable

bilateral

endurance

morality

rigorousness

bisect

enlighten

mortgage

saucer

Learn for Week 6 –

Word Attack Sheet :Dictionary Definitions

brutal

enough

muscular

sign

brutality

excrete

noticeable

signature

cereal

excretion

Learn for Week 7 –

Word Attack Sheet: Small Words

organisation

similar

character

excusable

participation

similarity

chlorine

familiar

pentagon

skeletal

Learn for Week 8 –

Word Attack Sheet: Anagrams

chrome

familiarity

pentathlon

spaghetti

column

feasible

pharmacy

sprightly

comedian

flawless

Learn for Week 9 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Steps

plausible

subtle

comedy

flawlessness

pleasure

succession

compose

fury

political

suggestion

Learn for Week 10 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Value

constellation

future

politicise

supersonic

construction

haughty

posterior

symphony

consumable

historian