Week of 11/30/09

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and is ready to finish the semester strong!

I have a special offer for the 8th graders.  I will use the last two quizzes of this semester (both are review material) to replace your two lowest quiz scores of your entire semester.  So, work hard on sharpening your skills for solving systems of equations and you can really bring up your grades!

For the 6th graders, I have a different offer.  Instead of a big Friday quiz in the next two weeks, we will be having mini quizzes every day.  At the end of the two weeks, your mini quiz grades added together can replace your lowest quiz grade of the semester.  These mini quizzes are also semester review material.

Homework for the next two weeks will mostly be worksheets.  Make sure you hang on to these worksheets because they will help you study for our final Unit Test.  Mark your calendar for these important dates.

6th grade Unit Test 3: Tuesday, December 15

Algebra 1 Unit Test 3: Thursday, December 17

6th Grade HW
Mon. (11/30): GCF and Simplifying Fractions W.S.
Tue. (12/1): Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers W.S. (mini quiz today)
Wed (12/2):  Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers W.S. (mini quiz today)
Thu. (12/3): Adding and Subtracting Fractions W.S. (mini quiz today)

Fri. (12/4): No HW (mini quiz today)

8th Grade HW
Mon. (11/23): Manipulating Equations W.S.
Tue. (11/24): Substitution W.S.
Wed (11/25):  Manipulating Equations 2 W.S.
Thu. (11/26): Substitution 2 W.S.
Fri. (11/27): No HW (Quiz 10)

Week of 11/23/09

Thanksgiving is almost here!  I know that I am very thankful for all of my hard-working and kind students this year.

As you are buying groceries, please consider enrolling in the Box Tops for education program.  There are certain products that contribute funding to our school if we cut off the box tops.  By submitting these box tops, our school can earn thousands of dollars.  Especially in this time of budget cuts, every little bit can help.  Please consider purchasing the follow products and sending your child to school with the box tops.


http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx

This week, we will be working on a short 2-day project in each class.  6th graders will be working on an adding/subtracting fractions project while the Algebra students will be solving systems of equations.

Wednesday is a minimum day, meaning that school ends at 12:30 (no lunch served).  We will be having assemblies, so some classes may be going to an assembly instead of class.  I will not be here on Wednesday, but I will be leaving a Thanksgiving-themed graphing worksheet.

Homework for the week is below:

6th Grade HW
Mon. (11/23): Fractions Project
Tue. (11/24): Project due today
Wed (11/25):  Count your blessings
Thu. (11/26): Happy Thanksgiving (no HW)
Fri. (11/27): National Day of Listening (not for a grade, just a suggestion)

8th Grade HW
Mon. (11/23): Word Problems Project
Tue. (11/24): Project due today
Wed (11/25):  Count your blessings
Thu. (11/26): Happy Thanksgiving (no HW)
Fri. (11/27): National Day of Listening (not for a grade, just a suggestion)

Week of 11/16/09

This week, I would like to highlight the online textbook resource.  Did you know that you can view and download any page of the math book from the internet?  Did you know that every page is also available in Spanish?  Did you know that you can find extra practice problems and quizzes here?  Check it out!


http://my.hrw.com

6th Grade User: 6math16
6th Grade PW: ******** (8 lower case letters/no spaces our school)

Algebra User: algebra460
Algebra PW: ******** (8 lower case letters/ no spaces our school)

6th Grade HW
Mon. (11/16): Pg. 178 #18-27
Tue. (11/17): Pg. 182 #10-17
Wed (11/18):  Pg. 182 #18-25
Thu. (11/19): Quiz 10 Practice Problems
Fri. (11/20): No HW (Quiz 10 today)

8th Grade HW
Mon. (11/16): Pg. 340 #5, 6, 24
Tue. (11/17): Pg. 341 #25, 29, 32
Wed (11/18):  Pg. 347 #1, 2, 8
Thu. (11/19): Quiz 10 Practice Problems
Fri. (11/20): No HW (Quiz 10 today)

Week of 11/9/09

We have a short week this week!

Please remember that there is no school on Tuesday, Nov. 10 (In-Service Day) nor on Wednesday, Nov. 11 (in observance of Veteran's Day).

6th Graders will be working on a Trail Mix project on Monday (with some real yummy results!) and continuing the rest of the week working on adding fractions.

8th Graders will be continuing to work on solving systems of equations, but this week we will be studying and practicing the method of substitution.

I will not be on school on Friday because I am traveling to Illinois for the wedding of a friend.  No worries, I'll be back on Monday!

Below are this week's homework assignments:

6th Grade HW
Mon. (11/9): LCD worksheet
Tue. (11/10): No school / No homework
Wed (11/11):  No school / No homework
Thu. (11/12): Adding Fractions worksheet
Fri. (11/13): No HW

8th Grade HW
Mon. (11/9): Pg. 340 #1-3, 7
Tue. (11/10): No school / No homework
Wed (11/11):  No school / No homework
Thu. (11/12): Pg. 340 #8-10
Fri. (11/13): No HW

Week of 11/2/09

Important Announcement: Unit 2 Re-takes are this Wednesday from 2:10pm - 3pm.


Remember, you must complete the test corrections before being eligible for the re-take.

6th Grade HW
Mon. (11/2): Pg. 190 # 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 16, 17, Math Journal problems
Tue. (11/3): Pg. 190 # 24-27, 29-31, 37-39
Wed (11/4):  Pg. 194 # 10-17
Thu. (11/5): Quiz 9 Practice Problems
Fri. (11/6): No HW (Quiz today)


8th Grade HW
Mon. (11/2): Pg. 332 # 5-8
Tue. (11/3): Pg. 332 # 13 - 16
Wed (11/4): Pg. 374 #16 - 18
Thu. (11/5): Quiz 8 Practice Problems
Fri. (11/6): No HW (Quiz today)