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Welcome to 8th Grade
Welcome to a year full of excitement, personal growth and academic achievement. The 8th Grade Team of teachers looks forward to all the individual participation and collaborative projects that you will be doing. As an 8th grade student at Da Vinci Academy, you will be contributing and presenting in your museum, sharing information in Socratic circles and actively participating in classroom simulations and projects.
8th Grade Expectations
STUDY SKILLS
Students are expected to use and update an agenda daily. This will help students stay current on their daily and long term assignments.
Students are expected to take notes in class and complete any “in-class” work during regular class time.
Students are expected to review notes at night and complete any homework assigned
CANVAS EXPECTATIONS
Teachers will post all assignments in CANVAS
Any graded assignment will have a due date attached to it.
Check CANVAS and Infinite Campus regularly for updates on assignments and student grades
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught”
Winston Churchill
8th Grade Family Curriculum Night
Tuesday August 19, 2025
5:00 pm
Learning Commons
Parents, students and families are all welcome!
We will start in the Learning Commons to discuss 8th Grade Curriculum, 8th Grade Museum, Field Trips, volunteering, unit celebrations, Carnegie Courses and other important information. We encourage all to attend.
This is a great time for parents to meet other parents from their gallery to discuss supplies and museum build days for their exhibits!
“Learning never exhausts the mind” – Leonardo da Vinci
Infinite Campus Help
This is where parents and students can check for their official grades in each class. You can also find parent forms, information about any fees (ex: library late fine), student schedules, and other useful resources
Make sure your information is up-to-date in IC. We will communicate via Remind - and it pulls contact information from IC.
Canvas Help
This is the program students will use to access any digital parts of their assignments. It is also where students should check for make-up work if they are absent. Work that is graded on Canvas may or may not appear in the official gradebook - please check Infinite Campus for official grades.
General Announcements
If students are absent and feeling well enough to do school work, all instructions can be found on Canvas announcements or modules for all classes - and students can email teachers with any questions. It is very important to stay on top of school work during absences whenever possible.
You can use the link to go directly to the Da Vinci Academy Homepage. You will find a lot of information there, including the newsletter updated monthly.
Volunteers are needed to help in the DVA Café during Homeroom (7:30 - 8:30) and Lunch (11:00 - 1:00) and afternoon (2:30-3:15). The help is greatly appreciated. You can sign up for a single day, a day each week, or a time slot every day if you are available! Click here to volunteer and enter in your hours!
Sign up for Museum Build Days!
Students have an option of how to handle their scientific calculator (TI-30) needs for the year - this is the calculator they will use in math and science class. They can 1) buy a TI-30 (it was previously on school supply lists, so you may already own one), 2) check one out from the learning commons this week, 3) use one from Coach Greene and Mr. Ray's class set while in class, and then use an alternative calculator for homework at home.
Students must have a signed AUA in order to check out a Chromebook! All Chromebooks must be brought to class charged each day - leave chargers at home. If a students forgets their Chromebook or it isn't charged, they will have to borrow a Chromebook from the teachers in each class period. Each teacher only has THREE classroom Chromebooks! Please let this be emergency only.
There are several forms coming home to be signed this week. Please read through these forms and then returned signed. Museum contract goes back to their museum gallery teacher, Flinn Safety contract goes back to Coach Greene in science, and the DVA contract goes back to their homeroom teacher.
Our first Unit Kickoff is Friday 8/15.
More details about Friday's Q1 Unit Kickoff: Journey into the Unknown:
1) Here is the sign up genius if you want to contribute: signupgenius.com/go/8050849A8AD2BA5F58-57853249-q1unit (You can log your hours/money as volunteer hours!)
2) If your child wants pizza that day, bring $3/2 slices - they can buy as many slices as they want. Cheese or pepperoni. Give money to Coach Greene in homeroom or beginning of class the next few days. Must have money in by Thursday so we can place the order!
3) If the students want to dress up as their "favorite hero" they can - but it must be school appropriate (not too short/tight) and no masks/capes when going to connections. Their teachers will likely be wearing their favorite hero garb as well... :-)
Meet the 8th grade teachers! Click on the link below to read more about them on the Hall Co. Teacher Sites
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