Tuesday, April 30th
Math
Grade 8
*no new tasks  former assignments should be complete
Grade 7
*new task: page 7 all, tables, graphs, equations
**** test corrections on a separate sheet of paper and attached to the original*****

Science 7/8

Welcome back!  There are only so many days left! 

7th and 8th grade students should complete the KWL that was started today in class around Force and Motion, our next unit of study.  We will discuss it tomorrow in class

April 29th
Math
Grade 8
*2.2 page 25 Are the relationships linear?  Why or why not? (Collected tomorrow- Tuesday April 30th)
*3.2 page 39 intersection
*page 29#6-8
*page 32#18
These are all assignments we are reviewing and were assigned the week before vacation.
We will be having a check-up Thursday
Grade 7
*Accentuate the Negative assessments were returned and corrections are to be done a separate sheet of paper and put in the tray as soon as possible.
*page 6 rate in meters per second for walking
*page 7 A1&2: 3 tables and 3graphs on the same co-ordinate plane

Friday, April 19th
Math
Have a wonderful break and come back refreshed and ready to finish up the school year strong.
Grade 8
There were not new tasks.  We organized our notebooks and reviewed the work we have been doing.
Grade 7
We organized our notebooks putting Skill: Order of Operations and the work we are doing with Mug in the "Currect Work" section of our notebooks.  We also did a Frayer model for the vocabulary word- linear relationship.  Students timed their walk for ten meters in seconds and some have calculated the rate in meters per second.

Thursday, April 18th
Grade 8
* new task: page 39 3.2 A&B Comparing Linear Equations
Please encourage students to have corrections in and 2.2 and page 29#6-8 done prior to vacation.
Grade 7
*Mug on page 25 along with 2 labsheets
Power School was updated please check and review it with your student if there are any error please have them see me with their notebook.

Wednesday, April 17th
Math
Grade 8
page 24&25 and page 29#6-8
The story is about an amusement park, the number of visitors, and the probability of rain.
** Power School has been upgraded for the 8th grade please take a look.  Their corrections are due asap and then I will enter the scores on the standards.
Grade 7
Skill: Operations with Integers
*page 54 #25 with 2 labsheets Mug (coordinate plane & integers)

Monday, April 15th
Math
Grade 8
continue with page 24&25 Predicting Profits
substitution and use of multiple equations to represent a the number of visitor, profit, and probability of rain
*page 29 #6-8
Grade 7
There is a LCA tomorrow on Accentuate the Negative
Collecting:
*Note on "Combining Signed Numbers"
back Multiplying Signed Numbers
*Warm-Up 4/15/13  two ways to write a number sentence for the number line which starts at -3 goes in the positive direction 2 to end up at -1  (addition & subtraction sentence)
*page 69#3&4 rectangles for the Distributive Property
*page 70  #8-25 practice with integer operations and PEMDAS
*page 66&67 D&E especially

English Update 4/15-4/19

In English, we continue our study of food consumption and production. We finished investigating Industrial food production, and now we move on to Organic industrial production, and local sustainable. We are also looking at energy and resource production and consumption.
Two paragraphs were due last week. Please check powerschool to see if your student handed the assignment in.
As always, please call or email with any questions, comments, or concerns.
Have a great week.

update:
Drawing rectangles to develop the Distributive Property and its relationship to area was practiced on page 69 #3&4 and assigned last Wednesday, April 10th. The task was inadvertently left off the blog.

Friday, April 12th
Math
Grade 8
*new task: pages 24&25 Predicting Profit  problem solving, equations, values, (negatives involved)
Grade 7
*new tasks:

• Distributive Property - Frayer model
• page 66&67 Distributive Property especially D&E for problem solving
• page 70#8-25, practice with evaluating expressions and the use of PEMDAS
• page 70#7, page 71#27  These are challenges in the form of word problems.  There will be word problems on the assessment next Tuesday

Thursday, April 11th
Math
Grade 8
Check-up tomorrow
Collecting: Practice: Say It with Symbols, page 28&29 expression plus
**corrections for the last assessment should be in
Grade 7
"Notes" page 62 on PEMDAS
page 69#1&2
*LCA on Accentuate the Negative next Tuesday, April 16th

Student release forms

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Please ask your son or daughter about the student release forms.  In order for their picture to appear in the yearbook, the student release form must be signed by a parent/guardian and returned to school no later than Friday, April 12.  Students who haven't returned their forms received an extra copy today.  Yearbooks can be bought for $8 (extremely inexpensive!)

Wednesday, April 10th
Math
Grade 8
*new task: Practice:Say It With Symbols
*corrections are due
*Check-up on Friday
Grade 7
*new task: page 64&65
Drawing rectangles to represent the area model and the Distributive Property
*corrections are due

English 4/8-4/12

Assignment Due: Two paragraphs, typed or pen written. 4-6 sentences each. 1st paragraph: What role does your food consumption play in your human footprint?  2nd paragraph: What can you do to minimize your human footprint.  Both of these should be edited/revised to be error free. Claim sentences (topic), evidence to support claim, and concluding sentences must be used.  This was begun last week and is now due. It will be entered in Powerschool today and tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 9th
Math
Grade 8
*no new tasks
-completing page 28 & 29 #2-5 Bike tour expressions and equivalence
-corrections for assessment from last Thursday, (equivalence through algebra and geometry)
We will be having another assessment later this week.
Grade 7
*new task: page 64&65 all  Area model for equivalence and the Distributive Property
*new task:  correction for assessment given last Thursday (Integers, and combining operations)
We are aiming to conclude the Accentuate the Negative booklet and have the Local Common Assessment next Tuesday, April 16th.

Parent help with social media

Tuesday, April 9th at 6:00 pm in the MMS Cafeteria.  Presenter Karen Archer is presenting a workshop to parents discussing how to best support students use of social media

Monday,April 8th
Math
Grade 8
*new task:
page 28 & 29 # 2 - 5, #2 is about the bike tour and is the most important part of this task
*assessments were returned and corrections are assigned Please submit as soon as possible on a separated sheet of paper attached to the original
*page 31#14-16 should be complete along with other back assignments
- There is another assessment later this week
Grade 7
*Notes on IntegerOperations were passed out and students should complete the examples and definitions and then keep them in their "Notes" section for reference
*page 38#4 is work with Mug and the coordinate plane.  It is a challenge problem
*page 31 with a Transparency 2.5 and Labsheet 2.5 shouls be complete and submitted

new tasks for Friday, April 5th
Grade 8
*Practice with the Distributive Property
-page 31&32 #13-18
-hand out from Additional Practice Inv1 #9, 13,15
Grade 7
*Transparency 2.5  Notes about the coordinate plane
reverse side of that paper is Labsheet 2.5 and it goes withpage 31 A-E

Thursday, April 4th
Math
Grade 8
*page 23 & top of page 24  A-D
Making equations for a story, writing equivalent forms, and deciding if the relationship is linear
Grade7
*take a look at page 28 & 29 explore looking at subtraction as the addition of a negative

English/Language Arts Update

Students are in a humanities unit called Ecological and Human Footprint. They are currently reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Through this book, instruction, and activities, students are learning about the human footprint and the ecological footprint. They are investigating how their choices as consumers impact their human footprint. We are using online activities that calculate people's lifetime consumption of various goods, services, and natural resources. Students are reading How Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos in Social Studies, and will read excerpts from Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and Cod: A Biography of the fish that changed the World by Mark Kurlansky.

Wednesday, April 3rd
Math
Grade 8
*new task page 23 & top of 24 read and find important information as you prepare for tomorrow.
Grade7
*new task: hand out integer operations, Make number line, indicate change, write number sentence
*Hiker handout goes in Notes

What is my Human Footprint

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/pt/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/

Click the link above for the activity. Enjoy!

Tuesday, April 2nd
Math
Grade8
*check-up tomorrow
*collecting: Tile Walkways,
handouts: Skill:Writing Equivalent Expression & Skill:Writing Expressions in Expanded Form
page 16#25-32 distributive property and rectangles
page 15#7&8
Grade 7
page 27 Group 2 number lines (Subtracting integers)
Attempt the other questions on page 27

Human Footprint activity link

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/human-footprint-interactive/?ar_a=1

Click the above link to take you to the activity.

Science 7/8

7th and 8th grade students should complete a learning log on the "Convection Lab" that they did in class today.  This assignment is due tomorrow (4/2) at the beginning of class.

Monday, April 1st
Math
Grade 8
*complete a proposal for the outdoor portion of the swimming pool on page 8
*page 15#7+8 (7-17except #9,  was announced in class but students were struggling
so please an attempt on 7&8)
Grade7
*new task: page 32 #1-3 adding integers
* papers were returned for last week and those who did not submit Skill: Integers were asked to do so.