Monday November 5, 2012

7th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the problem of the day, before jumping back into chapter 3.  Today students were introduced to solving inequalities using addition or subtraction.  Mr. Olsen led students through some notes and key vocabulary, and several example problems before we ran out of class time.  

Assignments:   Review Homework #15 is due Wednesday.  

8th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the problem of the day.  Next, we moved into section three of chapter 2.  Students were introduced to simplifying variable expressions, and learned several new vocabulary words before we jumped into some example problems.  

Assignments:   Review Homework #15 is due Wednesday.   

Science:  Today in science, students continued working with their partner for the Bubble Gum Challenge activity.  Today groups had their individual packets checked off my Mr. Olsen, before they started analyzing the data given to them by another group in the room who conducted their gum experiment.  Groups should be approaching the drawing conclusions step of the scientific method.  

Assignments:  Students should be continuing draw some conclusions from their gum lab experiments.   

FYI:  Parents!  Starting on Monday (10/22, 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.