CRCT Prep

The Math CRCT for 6th and 7th grade is next Friday, so we will have a week of review next week. Review packets for both grades will be sent home tonight. As the cover letter states, these may be done in any order, and we will review the answers throughout next week. All answers will be available to students next week, but problems must first be attempted.

7th Grade:
We have finished our studies of 2-dimensional transformations, and students should practice the Q skills on ixl.com for review. Please work on this over the weekend. We have not had homework on Fridays throughout the year, but this one time should give you a boost. We will explore 3-dimensional transformations next week.

We also have been looking at scale factors, area ratios, and proportions in our Spark time. Please practice these topics with ixl.com J8 and J9.

6th Grade:
Many of you have not yet completed all of the O's on ixl.com. Please see me for help if you are struggling, and read the explanations that are given for incorrect answers. Practice, practice, practice. We will engage in probability games and explorations next week, which is a content area that has not yet been focused on.

Updates for Today

6th Grade is doing a great job finishing up their weather/climate projects. Here's a great website to help with weather - click here

Spring Break and the Week After ixl.com work
6th Grade - you are not required to complete ixl.com work over spring break (unless you are behind in work that was due today). However, if you would like to get ahead or have a preview of the topics that will come after Spring Break, you can begin on the following topics, AA7 through AA14.

7th Grade
We had great efforts today on the constructions of reflections today. We'll be continuing with some constructions and transformations after Spring Break. Additionally, we will begin a Human Body Project. All of the associated documents can be found here. Students should complete one of the project options during the break. We will review the structure of the project tomorrow.

7th Grade Assessment Tomorrow

7th Graders, in addition to the ixl.com work that was assigned on Monday and posted for "7th Grade This Week" homework, you were instructed to study for your culminating task in geometry that will begin tomorrow. The task will be very similar to today's classwork, and will require you to have knowledge of creating a perpendicular line through a point outside the line and being able to justify the steps. This takes practice and reasoning, which is why you do not have a CoW tonight. You should practice justifying the steps of creating a reflection, as was modeled in class today. You can use the link at the right, "GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTIONS" for an animated review of this skill.

6th and 7th Grade this week - 7TH GRADE - SCAN TO BELOW

6th Grade: We are beginning a portfolio-eligible project in MST. Students will choose from three different levels for three different tasks. Students may choose from 1-, 2-, or 3-point options. 4-7 points earned will meet standards, and 8-9 points will exceed standards. Most Materials needed will be provided in class, but some work may be completed at home.

Click here for the rubric

1 Point - Weather Log

2 Points - Climate Comparison

3 Points - Weather and Climate

1, 2, and 3 Point Tasks - Severe Weather

1, 2, and 3 Point Tasks - Convection or Density

ixl.com skills this week: make sure you are done with all J's, V3, and G3 by Friday.

7th Grade
ixl.com - make sure you are up to a score of 100 on S1, S2, and S3 and begin work on Q4 and Q5. Ixl.com work is the only homework that you will have this week. TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.

6th Grade Skills - 7th grade HW

6th Grade Cow - Complete J1 and J2 on ixl.com

7th Grade Cow - Make sure that you have completed skills P4 and P5 for tomorrow. And for reasoning and communication - write the instructions for how to copy an angle using specific mathematical terms.

6th and 7th Homework

6th grade - convert the following fractions to decimals and memorize the decimal equivalent: 1/4, 3/4, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8, 1/3, 2/3, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5

7th Grade - ixl.com skill P5

oops

Thought I made my post for 7th grade homework, but forgot to hit 'Save' before rushing out. Now it's 9pm and you should all be in bed, so you have no CoW tonight. Don't worry, I'll make up for it with extra homework tomorrow. If you have already finished the task that I described in class (write step by step instructions for how to copy an angle using only Euclidean tools - you will get a Wolf Bone tomorrow for good listening and responsibility).

6th Grade - no CoW tonight - not a mistake, a conscious choice.

7th Grade Congruent Triangles Website

7th Grade:
These site may be helpful in completing tonight's homework for ixl.com. CONGRUENT TRIANGLES SIMILAR FIGURES This week's assigned topics for ixl.com are:
P12 and P21 Monday
P15 Tuesday
P16 Wednesday
P24 Thursday

6th Grade - tonight's ixl.com homework is B4. More updates for the rest of the week will come during the week.

6th and 7th CoWs

No CoW tonight. This will give students a chance to catch up on ixl skills.

6th Grade Skills: B9, T9, AA7 due tomorrow - Rock Projects revisions due on Monday

7th Grade Skills: P1, P2, P3, P17, P28 due tomorrow. If you have had a project returned for revisions, please use tonight to make needed revisions. I am continuing to grade projects, so the revision period will be extended accordingly.

7th Grade CoW

If you are looking for tonight's cow: I had trouble with the scanner, so I printed one out for everyone and they were handed out in your humanities class. If you did not get one, you can do the following vocabulary words tonight:

Vertex

Corresponding Sides

Corresponding Angles

Ray

Angle

Point

You can do the R/C tomorrow night or during advisory work and study time. Sorry about that. I thought the message got to everyone.

6th and 7th CoWs

7th Grade CoW Reasoning/Communication
Post your answer to this question with your reason why.

A scientist classifies a type of bacteria in the Eubacteria kingdom rather than the Archebacteria kingdom. What data MOST LIKELY led to this conclusion?

A. Unicellular
B. It is a prokaryote
C. It produces its own food
D. It has a peptidoglycan in its cell wall

Knowledge
P1, P2, P3, P4, P17, P28 - One of these may give you trouble with the line, ray, and line segment buttons. If it does, please complete 4 out of the 5 topics for tomorrow.


6th Grade
You must have B1, B2, B3, B4, T7 and J1 complete in addition to the CoW that was handed out today. You may work ahead.

Congratulations to Skyler - you are correct! Credit goes out to Temper, Llama, Ryan, Jazzmine, Shonterria, Christian, Diamond, Olivia, Thomas and someone else who forgot to write his or her name. You all used factual information to back up your reasoning. We'll talk about the correct answer tomorrow. Yes, this was a challenging question.

6th and 7th grade CoW

7th Grade Paperless Cow

ixl.com standards P1, P2, P3, P17, P28 are due on Friday. We will have had 1-1/2 hours of lab time by Friday.

Answer this question to receive credit for your homework. Answers MUST be posted before I check tomorrow morning!

Human liver and muscle cells require a great deal of energy. Which cell organelles would you expect to appear in large numbers as a result?

A. Nucleus
B. ribosomes
C. vacuoles
D. mitochondria

With your ANSWER, you MUST provide an explanation as to WHY yours is the CORRECT answer. Don't forget to type in your name so I know who it is!!!!

YOU NO LONGER NEED TO HAVE AN EMAIL ACCOUNT TO POST A COMMENT

6th Grade ixl.com Standards

The following standards should be complete by Friday: B1, B2, B3, B4, T7, and J1. T7 and J1 were assigned last week. Please check for completion. If you are done with all of the above, practice your computation skills with the K section.

CoWs

click here for Tuesday's 7th Grade CoW

We will continue using the CoWs to review algebraic concepts as we move into geometry. Students will use algebraic concepts to find the area and perimeter of figures.

6th Grade - the ixl skills assigned for this week (as noted in the knowledge section of the CoW) are: B1, B2, and B3. If students finish these early (before 30 minutes of work), they may also work on K1, K2, and K2 for review and practice. The K's are not 'due' this week, but should be used to continue improving computational fluency. For extension work, students may work on Z1 and Z2.

CoWs

7th Grade Cow for Monday - click here

6th Grade Cow for Monday - click here

We teachers are excited about the new Term 3 content that is coming! Stay tuned for more labs, guest speakers, and cool topics. I am now grading many 6th and 7th projects and am very pleased. Students in both grades have an extension until Wednesday to turn in all projects.

6th Grade - rock project and fraction task

7th Grade - algebra land choose your own adventure book; algebra cup, perimeter, and area tasks; mini-cell project, and all outstanding ixl.com work.

ixl skills

7th grade should now be done will all of the U's and all of the V's. If you are not done with these, please continue to work on them. Term 2 ends on Thursday. :)

Tonight's homework skills are X.6 and X.10

6th Grade - there is no CoW for tomorrow. Students should complete skills x.6 and x.7 on ixl.com in preparation for tomorrow's test. This was assigned on Tuesday, yet many students must still complete this work. If you have completed it to level 90, you may use it as a review for tomorrow. Try to get to a smart score of 100. :)

Check out this great website to practice solving algebraic equations

Thanks to Mr. Boardman for finding these great algebra widgets.
Try one out, post a comment, and get a wolf bone!
http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/add-subtract-balance.html

Algebra has been going fairly well. Students are progressing into word problems. As I checked the CoWs this afternoon - I noticed many missing in 6th and 7th grade. Students - make sure you have this week's Monday through CoWs done by tomorrow to turn in! Work not turned in will result in an advisor referral.

7th Grade - Reasoning and Communication CoW

Click below for knowledge CoWs per night.
Monday Knowledge
please see Ms. Trivedi's website for further CoWs. I can't set the Google Doc to share right now. click here


6th Grade CoW - here's the link to last night's CoW - more coming soon - keep up the good work! More CoW links coming soon. I was suprised that many of you did not turn in your CoW today! I hope that you hand it in tomorrow!

7th grade - Girls' Science Camp - Let's go Girls!

This camp is for rising 8th grade girls (current 7th grade girls). The cost is only $50!








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The last day of January!

6th Grade is making some great progress working with fractions. Students are using a tracking sheet to work at their own pace, and it's great to see kids challenging themselves. For the sixth grade CoW, click here.

7th Grade is continuing to work through algebra and some students are now solving multi-step equations for a single variable.

Tuesday's and Wednesday's CoWs

CORRECTION! - OOPS, I did not pass out the CoW yesterday, but I thought that I had. My apologies. Wolf Bones are going to Cole Clemmons and Shonterria Jackson for going to the blog to get as much done as possible. GREAT JOB! Due to technical difficulties (our scanner is down) the copies linked below will be missing the graphic required for the reasoning and communication portion. Students can complete the knowledge portion from this if they have lost their original paper copy.

CoW 15 Part 2 - 7th Grade
CoW 15 Part 3 - 7th Grade

This Week's CoWs

Welcome back - Hope you all had a great weekend.
This week's CoWs will be handed out each day, and each day the entire day's work should be completed and returned the following day. Our reasoning and communications questions are science-based, and the knowledge portion is practice on our current math topics.
In 7th Grade we are using our "Passport to Algebra" to allow students to travel at their own pace. Most of the class is still visiting Simplifying Expressions Island. A 'cheat sheet' was handed out to paste into the portfolios for student use during practice.
7th Grade - Click here for this Week's Cow

Practice Makes Perfect

Students have been working very hard in both 6th and 7th grade to practice the skills that we are currently learning. In 6th Grade, we practiced finding equivalent fractions. Students are working at their own pace to move through finding equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions (into the fractions' lowest terms). Finding the Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple are also being used and reviewed. The CoW homework for tonight is due tomorrow. ixl.com practice is T1, T2, and T4. If you have not yet finished T5, please do so now. (It was assigned two weeks ago).

7th Graders continued to practice simplifying algebraic equations. Tomorrow, we will move into solving algebraic equations. Please work on the following skills on ixl.com this week: V3, V4, V5, and Y4. Please check that you have already completed Y1, Y2, and Y3, which were assigned two weeks ago.

CoW 14 Part 2 Grade 7
CoW 14 Part 2 Grade 6

Tuesday's Cow

What a long weekend! It's was great to see everyone today.

In sixth grade, we reviewed finding the Greatest Common Factor and the Least Common Multiple. This will be very helpful (essential) in our upcoming unit on fractions, decimals, and percents.

In seventh grade, we explored how the Associative, Commutative, and Distributive Properties of Addition and Multiplication allow us to simplify algebraic expressions. What's up next? Moving from simplifying algebraic expressions to solving algebraic equations.

We are trying out a new CoW format this week. Cow #14 will be formatted so that students receive one part per night that is due the next day. The reasoning and communication portion this week is focused on eliminating possibilities. This skill will be helpful later this spring when students will take the CRCT.
Click here for the 7th grade CoW
Click here for the 6th grade CoW

Math Facts in a Flash

Having just reviewed student reports for Math Facts in a Flash, I strongly suggest that any student who has not yet reached level 40 (6th or 7th grade) use today and tomorrow to practice and make some serious progress. Individual warnings will be sent via advisor reports next week.

Wednesday ixl.com work

6th Graders- please begin to practice with fractions skills T.1, T.2, T.3, and T.5 today.

7th Grade - in preparation for solving algebraic expressions, please experiment and practice with skill A.3, multiplicative inverses. Also, please complete the remainder of the 'U' section - you should have already done skills U.1, U.2, and U.3.

Hopefully, I will see you tomorrow. But if not, please keep working so that we don't get too far behind.

School is Closed Tomorrow (Tuesday)

Please continue to work on ixl.com. :) Maybe I'll see you sledding on Red's Farm!

ixl assignments

6th Grade: The following ixl.com assignments can be started tonight, and will carry over until next week. (L.1, N.5, N.6, N.7). 6th grade has homework to find the Least Common Multiple on a paper copy of a worksheet. Yesterday, we worked on Greatest Common Factor. Tomorrow's assessment will be to demonstrate the ability to find the GCF and LCM for two numbers.

7th Grade: The following ixl.com assignments can be started tonight, and will carry over until next week. (E.1, E.2, E.3, Y.1, Y.2, Y.3, U.6) E.1, E.2 and E.3 were previously assigned. If you have not yet finished them, it is imperative that you finish it ASAP. At this point, Y.1 will have some unfamiliar material that will be taught next week. However, it can now be used as a learning tool.

Welcome Back

As it is a short week, we will not have a CoW this week. Students should use this week to make up all missing work or revise work that needs to be revised. All students should have ixl.com work from last semester at this time. 6th grade students must complete the Greatest Common Factor work that was begun in class today.

Happy New Year!

I can't wait to see you all tomorrow. Are you ready to get back to work? Answer the survey at the right if you get the chance this week. Remember, commenting on my blog is a good thing to do.

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