Thursday February 9, 2017

Algebra I: Today in math students began class with a Do Now and a set of warm up problems.  Next, students were introduced to chapter 7.  Students began by reviewing the simplification of expressions through combining like terms, as well as finding GCFs of a set of integers.  Next, students were introduced to monomials, binomials and polynomials.  Students were tasked with finding the degree of a given monomial or polynomial, before rearranging given expressions into standard form.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 362 #4-20, to be due on Friday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 362 # 4-20, to be due on Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmaster activities. Students were then introduced to the concept of direct variation.  Students worked through the activities in the practice workbook for section 5.6 (pages 107-109).  After some guided instruction, students were given class time to work with their table groups to work through activities 1 & 2.  Workbook pages 108-109 will be due on Friday in class.

Assignments:  Review Homework #36 is due Friday in class.  Workbook pages 108-109 will be due on Friday in class.

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  Students then finished watching the film entitled "Osmosis Jones."  Once the film ended, students informed of the summary essay of the film, and were given a guiding worksheet and class time to begin brainstorming ideas of what they should include in their 1 - 2 page summary essay that will be due at the beginning of class on Tuesday February 14, 2017.  

Assignments: Students can be working on the rough drafts of the Osmosis Jones summary essay for class on Friday.