7th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the problem of the day.  Next,  we transitioned back into chapter 7.  Today students jumped back into how to find the percent of change in a quantity.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were completed the back side of the 7.5 worksheet.  Next, students were briefly introduced to section 6 on finding markups, discounts, sales tax, and tips.  We will pick up with section 6 Tuesday in class.  Students were assigned five problems from the book as homework, p. 360 #8-13, to be due Tuesday in class.  

Assignments:   Study Island Review Homework #33 is due on Wednesday by the end of school.  Five problems from page 360 in the textbook (#8-13) are due Tuesday in class.  

8th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Today we jumped in to section 4 on finding the least common multiple of two or more number or monomials.  Students transitioned back into using the two methods of finding the LCM, one was just listing the multiples of each number in question, while method 2 has students factoring each number down to its prime factorization, and multiplying each common factor together to find the LCM.   

Assignments:  Study Island Review Homework #36 is due Wednesday by the end of the day.  Students should also be completing quiz corrections from the quiz last Friday.  Corrections are due Tuesday in class.  

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  We then transitioned back into cell division.  Today students were introduced to our next project, a mitosis flip book.  Students will be detailing each stage and phase of the cell cycle in an illustrated flip book.  Students were given  class time to continue working on a rough draft, or begin their final draft of their flip book.

Assignments:    None.

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.