Thursday May 7, 2015

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day.  This morning, students jumped back into chapter 6 and students were introduced to similar and congruent figures.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were given some class time to continue with their review of the sixteen fractions, decimals and percents they will be tested on Friday morning.  As a reminder, the test for the FFM is scheduled for THIS FRIDAY, May 8th.    
 
Assignments:  Review HW #52 is due Friday in class. Students should be continuing the memorization for their Fraction Finding Mission.  

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students continued working in chapter 6 and integers.  Today, students continued working with the distributive property.  Several students needed some support of how to use the distributive property, so all students finished up their distributive property worksheet, and then began working on some review work out of the text book, page 781 #5-33, to be due Friday in class.  

Assignments:  Review HW #52 is due Friday in class.  The book work from page 781 #5-33 we began in class is due Friday in class.

Science: Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students groups began presenting their Human Body Quest presentations on their assigned body system.

   

Assignments:   Students should be finalizing their assigned body system presentations and working on their presentation notes.  Presentations began on Thursday in class.