Tuesday, December 18th
Math
Both 7&8 are doing work to try and solidify concepts as we approach the holiday.  Students are being asked to have their notebooks organized so they can find the material when we return in January 2013.
8th grade
*new tasks: page 41-43 #44-55 These deal with slope as a fraction, decimal or percent, stories paired with graphs, and similarity
*Every one should have page 32 A&B with a graph for Get Reel and Big Fun
page 37#19 about allowances, and page 38#25 with Transcontinental and Innercity.
7th grade
*new tasks; pages 28-29 #1-3, students make characters and determine if they are similar, one of them they create and another is work with a parallelogram.
* Students should have all 5 members of the wump family in their
 "Current Work" section from page 22
*Vocabulary includes; ratio, proportion along with similar and corresponding angles and sides from this booklet "Stretching and Shrinking"