This week in Advisory students worked hard to get work into their Magazine Portfolio Projects. This is a cumulative project where they put together all their work from this year into a magazine format. Their work will be on display for Open House!
Pop Up Toasts!
8th grade students will be writing a toast, reflecting on their Kindergarten through 8th grade experience. It is one of the ways they think back to pivotal moments while also looking to the future: high school. For these pop up toasts, we like to provide students with soda so they can raise their cup and cheers at the end of each! If you are able to donate soda, it would be greatly appreciated! CLICK HERE to sign up!
WCS Website Update Complete!
We’re excited to share that our recent website update was successfully completed! Thank you for your patience during the brief downtime as we worked to enhance your experience.
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2025-2026 K-8 Yearbook:
The 2025-26 Westlake Charter School yearbooks are available to order! Orders are due April 27th to be guaranteed to be delivered by the last week of school, so don’t delay in placing your order. CLICK HERE to order your K-8 yearbook directly through TreeRing and get two pages to personalize with your own pictures! Use code 101667583471473 or see the email with the link to purchase. Need help? Contact: Ms. Chapman achapman@westlakecharter.com.
Jibe Position Available:
North Natomas Jibe is seeking a Program Coordinator to manage the Walk and Bike to School Program at Westlake Charter School (K-8 campus). A Program Coordinator is a paid, part-time position for a parent/guardian of a student attending Westlake Charter School. They greet students as they arrive on campus, lead walking school buses, and help organize special events. This is a great way to meet new families, work with students, and make a difference in our community! CLICK HERE for more information and to apply.
ELA
- Magazine portfolios
- CAASPP Practice
Social Studies
Multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
SL 8.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL 8.1c Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas.
SL 8.1d Acknowledge new information expressed by others, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views in light of the evidence presented.
Read informational articles: Newsela
Reading skills: Lexia
Writing skills: Quill
(These resources will be linked as soon as they are introduced to students.)
Math: Unit 7: Exponents and Scientific Notation
Science: Unit 6: Evolution
Science Unit 5 Benchmark: Week of 4/6
Math Unit 7 Benchmark: Week of 4/6
CAASPP Testing: 4/27-5/8
Khan Academy Unit 2 Extra Practice
Imagine Math Aligned Practice (login with Clever)
Additional practice and activities posted in Google Classroom (login with Clever)
- Team Game Strategy - Offense and Defense
- Fitness Unit - Personal Fitness Level Test (PFT)
Physical Fitness Testing - Make-ups
Because of inaccurate timing, this week 8th grade will have more time to either start or finish their butterfly suncatchers.
This week we will use colored pencils or watercolor paint to color in the animals we traced last week. We will focus on 3 things to make our artwork the best it can be: 1.Using shading (VALUE) 2. Adding a shadow using a shading technique. 3.Coloring the whole paper
Unit 6 Using ""was/were + ing"" (past progressive)
This week, students will learn how to describe actions they were doing in the past and compare them to actions they are doing now. They will build on prior knowledge by reviewing and practicing the use of “-ing” verbs while forming sentences with “was” and “were.
Gimkit & Blooket
These interactive activities will be used to practice vocabulary.
Complete your "About Me" presentation as a Benchmark. Present your slides.
Duolingo, Blookit, Gimkit, or other language-learning apps.
Unit 6 Using ""was/were + ing"" (past progressive)
This week, students will learn how to describe actions they were doing in the past and compare them to actions they are doing now. They will build on prior knowledge by reviewing and practicing the use of “-ing” verbs while forming sentences with “was” and “were.
Gimkit & Blooket
These interactive activities will be used to practice vocabulary.
Google Classroom, Duolingo, or other language learning apps.