Math with Milne December Issue

Hello everyone,

Please ask your child to show you the Math with Milne December Issue that has been posted to the Grade 8 Google Group your child is a part of.

Thanks in advance!

Mr. Milne

Calling All Writing Enthusiasts!! A&E Writing Contest!!

For all of my writing enthusiasts: Please check out this writing contest brought to you by A&E.  It is free to enter and there are some sweet cash prizes - spread the word. 

Visit www.livesthatmakeadifference.com to check out rules, info and previous years’ entries.  

Deadline is December 11. No need to panic because the entries cannot be more than 300 words. Good luck!

Our Ever-Evolving English Language!

Words are constantly entering the English Language.  In fact, the English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. Bedroom, bump, fashionable, moonbeam, generous, mimic, bet, advertising, gloomy, majestic, radiance and noiseless are a few examples.

Shakespeare wasn’t the only source of new words entering the English language. In fact, we've adopted words from other languages, such as robot, which was originally a Czech word. Additionally, as we continue to make advances in technology, we create and use new words. Internet, email, and google are popular examples. In 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary added twelve new words. Two of these entries include clunker and geekery.

CHALLENGE: make up a word you think can enter the English language.

(hint: you can use some of the strategies Shakespeare used). 

Give your word a definition and use it a sentence.

You never know, your word could possibly enter the OED one day!