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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