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!!!!

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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.