math tasks, Wednesday January 15th

Grade 8
Labsheet 2.1 from page 19
make squares on dot paper o: 1,2,4,5 8,9 10,16 (units squared) be sure to label the pieces and how you get the area.  Use teh A = side squared and take the square root of the area to find the side length (leave them as radicals or whole numbers.  Find the slope of the sides of the squares.  The slopes of lines that create right angles have slopes which are negative reciprocals.

Grade 7
We took our assessment today.  Collecting:
Page 85&86 #6 - 22, Chapter 11 Ratios and Proportions (story of the house and the tree), Additonal Practice Inv 4, Additional Practice Inv 5, Skill: Similarity and Ratios

Grade 6
page 12-13 9-23

math tasks, Monday January 13th

Grade 8
corrections TwMM on a separate sheet of paper and attached to the original
page 19, Labsheet 2.1 make squares of : 1,2,4,5,8,9,10,16 (units squared)
then find the side lengths

Grade 7
The Local Common Assessment for Stretching & Shrinking will be Wednesday.
Collecting:
page 85 &86 # 6-22
Chapter 11  Ratios & Proportions
                   cutting tree & protecting the house
Additional Practice Investigation 4
Additional Practice Investigation 5
Skill:  Similarity & Ratios

Grade 6
page 12&13 #9-12

math tasks, Friday January 10th

Half way through the year!!!
Grade 8
page 11 Labsheet 1.3  A-C (find  the area of the parks on Labsheet 1.2)

Grade 7
Additional Practice Inv 4  (packet)

Grade 6
new task:
page 15#32 a-d

Humanities Homework 1/9

Students should be using the check list in their planners to revisit the formal writing piece on cell phones.  There should be cause/effect or problem/ solution language, formal wording, complex sentences and reason/ evidence.

math tasks, Thursday January 9th

Grade 8
page 10 in Looking for Pythagorus with Labsheet 1.2
(especially at least 2 squares with the the given points as vertices)

Grade 7
page 85#5 tent & cliff
Additional Practice Inv 4 packet

Grade 6
new tasks: page 15#28,30,31 connections (skills we will need for the unit)

Science

Students are designing their experiments for the February 12th Science Fair.  Today, students should have handed in a typed-up copy of their:

1) Testable Question
2) Hypothesis
3) Procedure-outlining a step-by-step process describing how they will conduct their experiment.
4) Diagram-that illustrates what the final set-up should look like.
5) Materials and Equipment Form

In their packet, this is step 6.  If students were unable to hand this in today, they should complete it for homework.  Many students may need to meet with me during enrichment or after-school.

Humanities Homework 1/8-1/10

Students received a vocabulary assignment on Tuesday night that they were asked to finish for homework.  This assignment was completed by very few students, partially due to the time in which the assingment which was in the last minutes of the class and, students were anxious to depart.  Part of the responsibilty falls on students who have begun to use enrichment as a time to socialize rather than complete homework.  Students have written the vocabulary assignment, (to put defiitions in their own words and use the words in sentences in their planners), and those that completed the assignment have writtten "no homework". 
Students also received back 3 assignments that they are welcome to revise/ rework.  These are:
Is Columbus Day justified? (Super paragraph)
Author's purpose readings (and accompanying graphic organizer)
3 Pigs/ Wolf perspectives (claim and evidence and reasoned judgement)