Tuesday November 15, 2011

8th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the problem of the day.  Next, students were handed back their chapter 2 tests and given about 20 minutes of class time to begin working on their corrections.  Students will have until Thursday to complete their test corrections and will hand them back to Mr. Olsen at the beginning of class on Thursday.  We then transitioned back into the text book and began talking about chapter 3 and solving two step equations.  Mr. Olsen led students through several examples, while reminding them that they need to isolate the variable before solving the equation. 
 
Assignments:   The chapter 2 test corrections will be due Thursday.
 
7th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class by using their flashmasters.  Next, students were handed back their chapter 2 tests and given about 30 minutes of class time to begin working on their test corrections.   We then transitioned back into the text book and began talking about chapter 3 and finding the mean, median and mode of a data set.  Mr. Olsen introduced the vocabulary definitions of mean, median and mode, before leading students through a couple of examples.  

Assignments:   The chapter 2 test corrections will be due Thursday.

Science:  Today in science, students completed a self and group evaluation concerning the Salmon Unit Presentation Project.  We then transitioned into some chemistry vocabulary.  We began talking about prefixes and suffixes and root words, and how most all scientific words and derived from Greek or Latin roots and combined to create new words. 

Assignments:  Students should be completing the science vocabulary worksheet we began in class if they did not complete it in the class time provided.

FYI:  Parents!  Starting on Monday (10/31, the first day of the second quarter), teachers in the Aurora house will no longer accept late work from our students.  Students will get credit for the work they do, when it is due.