Wednesday November 27, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4.  Today students were working with scatter plots and correlations between data sets.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned the explorations in the practice workbook, pages 114-115, to be due on Monday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned the explorations in the practice workbook, pages 114-115, to be due on Monday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms and using the distributive property before simplifying.  Today, students were learning about prime numbers and the sieve of Eratosthenes.  

 

Assignments:  None.

Science:  Students in the Taku House celebrated cultural holidays with each homeroom this afternoon.  

Assignments: None. 

Tuesday November 26, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4.  Today students reviewed about how to find if two or more lines are parallel or perpendicular.   After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned the explorations in the practice workbook, pages 111-113, to be due on Wednesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned the explorations in the practice workbook, pages 111-113, to be due on Wednesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms and using the distributive property before simplifying.  Today, students were learning about prime numbers and the sieve of Eratosthenes.  

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #21 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students took a walk outside on the trail during science today, practicing mindfulness throughout the walk.

Assignments: None. 

Monday November 25, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4 as we were reviewed our knowledge of point-slope form, and how to use the point-slope formula to write a linear function in slope intercept form.  Today students reviewed about how to find if two or more lines are parallel, before being introduced to finding how to lines may be perpendicular.   After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned the section 4.3 Practice A worksheet, to be due on Tuesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned the section 4.3 Practice A worksheet, to be due on Tuesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms and using the distributive property before simplifying.  Today, students were continuing to add and subtract linear expressions. After some teacher led instruction and a few examples, students completed a in-class worksheet on adding and subtracting linear expressions. 

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #21 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students were introduced to the idea of mindfulness and how to begin to control their brains through meditation and/or finding strategies to help them cope with anxiety that may come with public speaking.  Student groups will be sharing their Periods of the Earth research beginning next Monday in class, so today's class period was dedicated to help students find ways to feel comfortable when public speaking.

Assignments: None. 

Thursday November 21, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4 as we were reviewed our knowledge of point-slope form, and how to use the point-slope formula to write a linear function in slope intercept form.  Today students were learning about how to find if two or more lines are parallel or perpendicular.   After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 191 #1-12, to be due on Friday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 191 #1-12, to be due on Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms and using the distributive property before simplifying.  Today, students were learning how to add and subtract linear expressions.  

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #20 is due on Friday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued working with their assigned partner on creating a presentation on an assigned time PERIOD of the planet Earth.  Students are researching and developing a poster product that they can use to present their research to their classmates early next week.  Student groups should have finished up their research today in class and began printing and matting their information.  Friday will be the final work day for this poster project.

Assignments: None. 

Wednesday November 20, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4 as we were reviewed our knowledge of the slope formula and writing equations of functions presented in various ways into slope intercept form.  Today students were continuing to work with point-slope form, and how to use the point-slope formula to write a linear function in slope intercept form.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned the section 4.2 Practice B worksheet, to be due on Thursday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned the section 4.2 Practice B worksheet, to be due on Thursday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms.  Today, students continued working with the distributive property and continuing to simplify expressions by completing a review worksheet in class.

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #20 is due on Friday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued working with their assigned partner on creating a presentation on an assigned time PERIOD of the planet Earth.  Students are researching and developing a poster product that they can use to present their research to their classmates early next week.  Student groups should have finished up their research today in class and we will begin putting final products together Thursday in class.

Assignments: None. 

Tuesday November 19, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4 as we were reviewed our knowledge of the slope formula and writing equations of functions presented in various ways into slope intercept form.  Today students were introduced to point-slope form, deduced from the slope formula by rearranging that formula into point-slope.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned some homework from the text book, page 185 #1; 8-14, to be due on Wednesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the text book, page 185 #1; 8-14, to be due on Wednesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions by identifying the terms of an expression before combining like terms.  Today, students were working with the distributive property and continuing to simplify expressions by completing a review worksheet in class.

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #19 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued working with their assigned partner on creating a presentation on an assigned time PERIOD of the planet Earth.  Students are researching and developing a poster product that they can use to present their research to their classmates early next week.  

Assignments: None.  

Monday November 18, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students jumped into chapter 4 and we were reviewing our knowledge of the slope formula and writing equations of functions presented in various ways into slope intercept form.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, pages 99-100, to be due on Tuesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, pages 99-100, to be due on Tuesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions.  Students reviewed the vocabulary introduced last week and then we practiced identifying the terms, the like terms, the constants, and the coefficients of a given expression, before simplifying that expression. 

Today, students were working with the distributive property and continuing to simplify expressions by completing a review worksheet in class.

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #19 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students were introduced to our next in class project on creating a presentation on an assigned time PERIOD of the planet Earth.  Students were assigned a partner and a time period to research, and groups will spend the week researching and developing a poster product that they can use to present their research to their classmates early next week.  

Assignments: None.  

Thursday November 14, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Next, students were continuing to learn about how to transform absolute value functions.  After a lot of teacher led instruction and several example problems, students took a quiz on absolute value functions. Students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 95, to be due on Friday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 95, to be due on Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions.  Students reviewed the vocabulary introduced last week and then we practiced identifying the terms, the like terms, the constants, and the coefficients of a given expression, before simplifying that expression. 

Today, students were continuing to 

 

Assignments:  None.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued learning about timelines, and today they began working on an online geologic timeline activity.  Students were introduced to the activity through a google classroom assignment, and then were given the rest of class to begin working on the timeline assignment.  We will continue working with this assignment on Friday in class.

Assignments: None.  

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Today students got their graded chapter 3 tests back and were given opportunities to ask clarifying questions.  Next, students began learning about how to transform absolute value functions.  After a lot of teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 94, to be due on Wednesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 94, to be due on Wednesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions.  Students reviewed the vocabulary introduced last week and then we practiced identifying the terms, the like terms, the constants, and the coefficients of a given expression, before simplifying that expression. 

Today, students were working on completing workbook page 43 in class.  Students were filling in tables in which they were substituting values in for the variable and writing the outcome into the table. 

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #18 is due on Thursday in class.  Workbook page 43 is due on Thursday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued learning about timelines, and were working with a partner to complete their Personal Timeline.  

Assignments: None.  

Tuesday November 12, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Today students got their graded chapter 3 tests back and were given opportunities to ask clarifying questions.  Next, students began learning about how to transform absolute value functions.  After a lot of teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 94, to be due on Wednesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the practice workbook, page 94, to be due on Wednesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were continuing to work with simplifying expressions.  Students reviewed the new vocabulary introduced last week and then we practiced identifying the terms, the like terms, the constants, and the coefficients of a given expression, before simplifying that expression.  

 

Assignments:  Review Homework #18 is due on Thursday in class.  

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued learning about timelines, and were working with a partner to create a Personal Timeline.  

Assignments: Students should be coming into class on Wednesday with at least ten (10) events from their lives so far to add to their personal timelines.

Tuesday November 5, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Today students were reviewing for the chapter 3 test.  The test is scheduled for Wednesday in class.

Assignments:  Students can expect the chapter 3 test on Wednesday.  

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students were introduced to chapter 3 and simplifying expressions.  Students copied a table of vocabulary into their math notebooks that they can reference when writing algebraic expressions from a given sentence.  After some teacher led instruction and a few practice problems, students were given class time to complete practice workbook page 42. 

 

Assignments:  Students were handed a Halloween-themed EXTRA CREDIT packet that will be due by Wednesday November 6th.   Review Homework #17 is due on Wednesday in class.  Practice workbook page 42 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued learning about the history of the Earth and how the atmosphere formed.  

Assignments: None.

Monday November 4, 2019

Algebra I:  Students began math class with the Do Now and the Problem of the Day.  Today students were reviewing translating and reflecting, and stretching and shrinking linear functions.  Students then jumped back into section 6 on identifying functions with multiple transformations.  We reviewed the format and presentation of the functions and how to identify the type of transformation.  After some teacher led instruction and a few examples, students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 152 #41-46, to be due on Tuesday in class. 

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 152 #41-46, to be due on Tuesday in class. 

7th Grade Math: Students began math class with the Do Now and a problem of the day.  Next, students used class time to catch up on missing work and/or complete the extra credit halloween packet handed out last week.  

Assignments:  Students were handed a Halloween-themed EXTRA CREDIT packet that will be due by Wednesday November 6th.   Review Homework #17 is due on Wednesday in class.

Science:  Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued learning about the history of the Earth and how the atmosphere formed.  

Assignments: None.