February 11th - February 15th

YEARBOOK
As we collect memories of the school year for the yearbook, we like to focus on celebrating our 8th grade students who will graduate and move on to high school. As part of that celebration, we like to include a baby picture of each 8th grade student. In addition to the images you submit from the graduation slideshow, select ONE baby picture to be included in the yearbook. Please email this to yearbook@hancockdayschool.org by Friday, February 21st.

8TH GRADE GRADUATION SLIDESHOW
The Hancock Day School 8th grade graduation will be on Thursday, May 23rd.  Per HDS tradition, we will have a slideshow presentation of our 8th grade students during reception.  Please submit FIVE pictures of your choice to Mrs. Mannarino (mmannarino@hancockdayschool.org) by Friday, March 8th.

8th GRADE PARENTS - WASHINGTON, D.C.
On Tuesday, February 12th we will hold a Washington, D.C. Parent Meeting at 6pm in Hancock Hall. We will present the final itinerary and miscellaneous details for the trip.  If the government shutdown is not resolved at that point, we will review our options. Please plan to attend! The trip balance of $575.00 was due by February 1st.

Each middle school student is required to complete ten hours of community service over the course of the school year.  Please remember to list hours worked on a daily basis, do not log total sum of hours worked over an extended period of time.  See below for a few upcoming service opportunities.

The Old Savannah City Mission needs volunteers for various positions.  The mission provides food, shelter, and clothing to the homeless.  For more information, contact Connell Stiles at 912-232-1979 or stiles@oscm.org.

America’s Second Harvest needs volunteers to help prepare monthly bags of food for senior citizens in our community.  Volunteers should arrive by 7:45 and must wear closed-toe shoes. Contact Bryce Seuntjens at bryce@helpendhunger.org for more information.

This month we are exploring acceptance as our virtue of the month. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Ms. Pedrick at apedrick@hancockdayschool.org

Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week in Algebra, we will begin our Olympics Review game in preparation for the 2nd trimester exam. 8th grade Algebra exam will take place at 8:30 on Friday, February 15. Students received an exam outline on Friday, February 8 that must be completed by the exam date for 10 points towards their exam grade.

Advanced Algebra - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will begin our exam review.  Students will be given a list of topics that may appear on the exam.  The 8th grade exam will take place at 8:30 on Friday, 2/15.

Geometry - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will begin our exam review.  Students will be given a list of topics that may appear on the exam.  The 8th grade exam will take place at 8:30 on Friday, 2/15.

Physical Science - Ms. Hoffman

The eighth graders have finished up learning about the three Laws of Motion first described by Sir Isaac Newton.  They learned to calculate force and momentum and also participated in balloon races (see photos below) to help identify all of these laws and variables that will affect them in an actual situation.  We then finished up the week with a Unit Test on Force and Motion.

After looking at the scores from our Hancock science fair judging on the evening of Thursday 1/31, student science fair project grades and completed regional science fair paperwork, four students were chosen to represent Hancock at the Regional Science Fair competition held at Savannah State University on Wednesday, 2/6/19.This next step included an interview with regional judges as they critique projects from the entire coastal region of Georgia.   These students were Harper Nelsen, Joseph Stoever, Valerie Kapitan and Hannah Kitchens.  Congratulations to all of them!

Next week, the students will participate in an Egg Drop Lab to finish up our information and study of force and motion.  Our second trimester grade for physical science will be the grade received on the science fair formal report. We will begin our third trimester learning about the Electromagnetic Spectrum.

    

English Language Arts - Mrs. Boyer
Literature: Students should be reading the FINAL PAGES of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. We will be interacting with this text from January 8th until Spring Break in March (however, we will be discussing the Holocaust and their T3 novel, Night, in order for the students to connect to the text while they are in Washington, DC).

February 8th-13th

Act V

39 pgs

Final Reading is due on February 13th

Exams February 14th-15th

February 18th-March 1st (Projects/Writing)

March 4th-March 8th (Holocaust Intro)

Exams: There will be an Exam for my class. It will cover Romeo & Juliet in its entirety. I will be handing out a study guide next week, as well as a Shakespeare Vocabulary Packet. Please feel free to begin reviewing the content with them. I would also suggest rereading the modern text.

Projects: During the two weeks after the exam, the 8th grade class will be engaging in projects regarding Romeo and Juliet. Each project will have a rubric. There will be a few mini-projects that will be counted as a class grade, and some larger projects that will be counted as project grades.  

History & Gov’t II - Mrs. English

This week we will continue to work on exam review materials. 8th grade has their history exam on Friday @ 10:30. The exam will cover Chapter 18.2→ 22.3. We will use class to work on study guides and play review games.

Spanish - Ms. Hughes
Next week in Spanish the 8th grade will continue to work on their trimester project. Students were given the task to create a “Spanish CSI” episode using the grammar and vocabulary from the second trimester. We will view the episodes during their activity period on February, 14th.

Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week in Algebra, students will be working on their 2nd trimester activity for Algebra.  They will be creating a parallel and perpendicular city called Mathtopia on a 16x16 piece of poster board.  They will use their knowledge of Chapter 5 to create this city. The activity will be done completely in class and will be due on Thursday, February 14.

Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will continue our trimester summative assessment.  The project will be due at 12:00 on Thursday, 2/14 during the activity period.

History & Gov’t I - Mrs. English

This week we will continue to work on exam review materials. 8th grade has their history exam on Thursday. The exam will cover Chapter 4.3→ 6.4. We will use class to work on study guides and play review games.

Spanish - Ms. Hughes

Next week in Spanish  the 7th grade will continue to work with the grammar and vocabulary from Chapter 8B. We will also explore ways to help others and the environment. Students will learn about indirect object pronouns and work with irregular preterite conjugation.

ELA - Mrs. Boyer
Literature: Students should be close to finishing their Book Club novels. Their final due date is 2/12.

Exam: Students have received their study guides, and I have gone over what my plan is for review (which they should have written down on their study guides). Please send students to me if they feel they need help with any of the content.

Projects: Book Trailers (After exams.) A chosen few will be shown in the HDS Film Festival.

Upcoming Unit of Study: We will be venturing into irregular verbs, intransitive and transitive verbs, and who vs whom, and which vs that. The students will also be engaging in a mini unit regarding Black History Month.

** Please have your students check RenWeb for any missing work from absences.**

Life Science - Ms. Hoffman

The seventh graders have been learning about our largest body organ, the skin, including the different layers and features it contains.  We discussed how adaptations such as skin color, sebaceous glands and hair contribute to the differences found within a species and among different species.  The students also participated in a fingerprint lab looking at arches, loops and whorls found on on individual fingerprints. We then calculated the percent of each feature found in each of our different classes.  (See photos below.) We also had a brief discussion of terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems. Next week, we will review genetics and evolution to prepare for our second trimester exam on Friday, 2/15.

Accelerated Math 7 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week in Accelerated Math 7, we will begin our Olympics Review game in preparation for the 2nd trimester exam. 6th grade math exam will take place at 10:30 on Friday, February 15. Students received an exam outline on Friday, February 8 that must be completed by the exam date for 10 points towards their exam grade.

Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear Next week, we will begin our exam review.  Students will be given a list of topics that may appear on the exam.  The 6th grade exam will take place at 10:30 on Friday, 2/15.

ELA - Mrs. Guggenheim

LITERATURE: We will review for exams. An ELA review outline was posted on GC.

VOCABULARY: Know the 9 Greek/Latin Roots from Lists 6-8 for exam.

GRAMMAR: We will continue an exam review of sentences and nouns. IXL is a very helpful review tool.

Earth Science - Mrs. Taylor

Students will finish up working on their T2 Exam/Volcano project Monday and presenting Tuesday and Wednesday. They do not have written exam in science this trimester.

Ancient Civ -  Mr. O’Hayer

Last week saw us wrap up our Chapter on Ancient India. Our focus for this chapter was how Buddhism and Hinduism impacted Ancient India and shaped its development. The new week brings us closer to Trimester Exams. Our Ancient Civ Exam is Friday the 15th at 8:30. The Exam will cover Chapters 4, 6, 7, and 10. We will spend M-W reviewing. A study guide will be posted to Google Classroom by the end of the week.

Spanish - Ms. Dubick

The 6th graders did great work on their travel projects!  This used a lot of the concepts and vocabulary we have worked with this semester, so they already have a head start on reviewing for the exam, which we will continue to do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Their exam is Thursday February 14th (Valentine’s Day!) from 10:30am-12pm.

Art - Mrs. Cookson

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” - Salvador Dalí

8th: Stop motion set building, lighting setup, and filming

7th: Concert posters finish digital or analog, or switch it up

6th: Introduction to wet felting...finally.

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Craft Club

Over the last two weeks students have been creating pet rocks.  Here are some photos of their creations.