Weekly News

This week in Math, we'll be finishing up our unit on "Comparing and Scaling". On Monday, we'll be taking our Investigation 4 Quiz. On Tuesday, we'll be reviewing the entire unit, recalling information regarding ratios, fractions, differences, percents, rates of change, unit rates, and proportions. Students will complete a study guide that they should study from, for the test on Wednesday. On Thursday, we'll be starting our next algebra unit entitled "Moving Straight Ahead". In this unit, we'll pick up where we left off in "Variables and Patterns" (our first book), and continue our studies in graphing, making tables, making equations, and solving equations (solve for the unknown). STUDENTS -- PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR GRAPH PAPER STARTING ON THURSDAY. I will have some graph paper for your use, but each day you don't have your own paper, you will get points deducted from your table!!!

In Science we will be starting a biology unit. We will begin by looking at infectious diseases, which will give the students an idea of how some diseases are spread from one person to another, such as with colds and the flu. We will do a model of this type of "spreading" of diseases, and then look further into what things contribute to disease transmission (moving from one person to another). This unit is very helpful especially this time of year, so I'm hoping students learn a lot from these activities.

In Advisory students will be practicing their exhibitions in small groups. Students will be expected to email me their presentation or have it on a flash drive to use with the smart board, in order to practice it. Exhibitions are next week, so students might also use advisory time to work on writing out notecards, making an agenda, or practicing in other small groups. This is the time to make sure everything is just perfect, so please use this time wisely!! If you have not signed up for an exhibition, please do so quickly, before the "good times" run out!

Any questions? Let me know!