Thursday January 26, 2017

Algebra I: Today in math students began class with a Do Now and a set of warm up problems.  Next, students reviewed the idea of exponential functions, before we continued talking about exponential growth and decay functions.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems and two videos from Khan Academy about exponential growth and decay functions, students were assigned some homework problems from the textbook, page 319 #22-29, to be due on Friday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework problems from the textbook, page 319 #22-29, to be due on Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmaster activities. Students then jumped back into chapter 5 and continued working with ratios and proportions. Students continued working with how to write and solve proportions.  Next, students paired up in class with a classmate, and we played a proportion game called Criss-Cross.

Assignments:  Review Homework #32 is due Friday in class.  The section 5.4 Practice A worksheet is due Friday in class.

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  Students then got into their Local Ecology Groups and we went outside to our established plots to take pictures, air and soil temperatures, and make some observations.  

Assignments: None.