May 01, 2009

Literacy/April 27 - May 1

Monday - Basic skills sheet on finding sales tax.

Tuesday - Finished Monday's assignment.
Wednesday - DEAR reading/passed back work/"catch up" on unfinished work
Thursday - Did DEAR reading.
Friday - Did Accelerated Math

Enriched Math and Math 7/April 27 - May 1

Monday - Students finished viewing "October Sky" and answered corresponding questions.

Tuesday - Students started part I of the review for the final.
Wednesday - Students continued part I of the review for the final.
Thursday - Students went over the answers to part 1 of the review for the final.
Friday - Students took a quiz over the part 1 review and began the part 2 review.

THE MATH FINAL WILL BE NEXT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

April 24, 2009

Literacy/April 20-24

Literacy classes are only 30 minutes this week due to CRCT testing.


Monday - Students tried some math logic by doing Sudoku puzzles.
Tuesday - Students did DEAR reading.
Wednesday - Students did a review on long division.
Thursday - Students did DEAR reading.
Friday - Students finished Sudoku puzzles or finished "outstanding" work.

April 22, 2009

Enriched Math and Math 7/April 20-24

All classes reviewed on Monday for the CRCT. Classes played the "Snake Game" reviewing problems involving proportions and variation. Tuesday - Periods 1 & 4 Students worked on three performance tasks related the the Numbers and Operations domain of the CRCT. Students worked on finding the ending time for an alarm clock when the big dial represented 1/2 turn, and the small dial represented -1/3 turn. Students also made a timeline of historical events using his/her birthdate as the starting point (relates to absolute value). Finally, students found ending prices of fictional stocks and then ordered the companies from highest to lowest value. Wednesday - Periods 2 & 5 Same as above entry. Thursday/Friday - We hope to show a mathematical based movie and have a corresponding activity. We want to give the students a "lighter" day after a week's worth of testing.

April 15, 2009

Literacy/April 13 - 17

Monday - Students did a character education lesson on norms and attitudes toward alcohol and drugs.

Tuesday - DEAR reading/AM Math
Wednesday - Math mystery
Thursday - Basic Skills Review
Friday - "Catch-up"/Project Day

Enriched Math 7 and Math 7/April 13-17

Welcome back!  I hope all of you had a wonderful Spring Break!  Only 5 weeks and 2 days to go in the school year.


This week will be spent reviewing for the CRCT test which students begin next Tuesday.  Students will review integer operations, equations, rational numbers, transformations, and direct/indirect variation.
What work is not finished in class is homework this week.

March 30, 2009

Literacy/March 30th - April 3rd

Monday - Character ed. on Norms and Attitudes

Tuesday - Continued review on fraction operations
Wednesday - Problem solving/Carlotta's Coins
Thursday - AM Math
Friday - "Catch up"

Enriched Math 7 and Math 7/March 30th-April 3rd

Enriched Math 7 - 

Monday - Students reviewed solids.  Students did a review for Unit 2 on Patterns and Relationships.
Tuesday - Unit 2 Review is due.  A short quiz will be given on naming solids, cross-sections, translating 2-D figures through space, and rotating 2-D figures through space.
Wednesday - Friday
Students will work on the Performance Task review for Unit 1, Dealing with Data.

Math 7 - See above entry.

March 25, 2009

Literacy/March 23-27

Monday - Students did a character education lesson on substance abuse involving alcohol and inhalents.

Tuesday - Students did a basic skills review on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.
Wednesday - Students will do problem solving for the week entitled, "Head for Numbers."  This case involves the concept of mental math.
Thursday - Students will do DEAR reading/AM math.
Friday - "Catch up" for work not finished during the week.

Enriched Math 7 & Math 7/March 23-27

Enriched:


Most of this week will be spent reviewing for the CRCT by doing performance tasks that correlate with each unit we have studied this year.  Students are working on a task entitled, "Girls Versus Boys," where students formulate a question, collect data, create graphs, and use measures of central tendency/variation to statistically show the difference between boys/girls on the questions the students are testing.  Students also did a review worksheet on Tuesday involving function tables and one-step equations (with integers and all four operations).  We will close the week on Friday with DEAR reading/AM math.

Math 7:
On Monday, students did a reteaching worksheet on mean, median, mode, and box-and-whisker plots.  On Tuesday, students did a review worksheet covering one-step equations with integers and all four operations.  Wednesday through Friday, students will review for the CRCT by doing a performance task that correlates with our first unit covered this school year involving data analysis.  We will close the week on Friday with DEAR reading/AM math.