Thursday, November 12, 2015

Thursday November 12, 2015

8th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the Do Now.  Students spent today's class period by learning about tessellations.  Students continued working with the concept of tessellations and students spent the class period creating a unique tessellation of their own.  Students spent todays class period creating the third and final unique tessellation, this time creating a rotating tessellation.  All in all, students have created three different tessellations, a translation, a reflection and today's final creation of a rotation.  

Assignments:  Students should be bringing in their own full page rotation tessellation to class on Friday.

7th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the Do Now.  Students then jumped into chapter 3.  Today students were learning about parallel lines and transversals.  After a brief introduction and a few warmup problems, students were asked to complete Activities 1-3 on pages 51 through 53 of the practice workbook for class on Friday.  Students were also asked to compete the Fair Game Review activity on pages 49 and 50 of the workbook for class on Friday as well.  
 
Assignments:  Activities 1-3 on pages 51 through 53 of the practice workbook and the Fair Game Review activity on pages 49 and 50 of the workbook are due Friday in class.   

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  Students then transitioned into the chemistry textbook.  Students spent the class period reading about characteristic properties of matter, including physical and chemical properties and how to identify them about a specific type of matter.  The section 1.1 worksheet on Describing Matter is due Friday in class.

Assignments:  The section 1.1 worksheet on Describing Matter is due Friday in class.

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