Weekly News

Happy Thanksgiving Week! It's a time of year to appreciate the things we have and to acknowledge things we are thankful for. I am thankful for many things, but mostly thankful for my health and my family. What are you thankful for?

This week in Math we will be focusing on solving one-variable inequalities and compound inequalities. Students will solve them like multi-step equations, but will then have to graph their result on a number line based on the inequality given. On Wednesday, we will be discussing absolute value and will solve various absolute value equations.

In Science we will be wrapping up our unit on Light and Color. On Monday we will review the major concepts of the unit and on Tuesday we will have our Unit Test.

In Advisory we will continue practicing math skills that students have difficulty with, on their interim assessment. This week's skill is reading and interpreting various graphs.

Any questions? Please ask!

Science Spectrum Superstars

Today, we had a quiz on Lessons 4-6. The following students received an 80% or higher on the quiz:

• Trinity (80%)
• Nicholas (80%)
• Char (80%)
• Troy (80%)
• Christina (80%)
• D'eja (80%)

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This week in Math we are going to continue our focus of solving equations. Early in the week we will practice solving multi-step equations as well as give an explanation for each step that is completed. We will have a quiz on this (Embedded Assessment #2) on Thursday. On Friday, we are going to start learning about and solving inequalities.

In Science we are going to review activities 4-6 on Monday and have a quiz of this material on Tuesday. We will start Activity 7 on Tuesday, after the quiz. This activity will allow students to combine different beams of colored light to make other colors. Students will also look at the position of shadows and how they are affected by different colors of light. Later in the week, Activity 8 will be completed, which includes the idea of how much energy is transferred when light is used, and how long it takes for this light energy to be transferred.

In Advisory we are going to continue using it as extra Math time. We will go over homework problems from the week as well as review the skills that students had difficulty on, on the Interim Assessment that was completed 2 weeks ago.

Any questions? Just ask!

New beginnings!

Monday marks the first day of the second quarter. I found out on Friday that although I thought that grades were going to continue where you ended in first quarter, that is actually not the case. All grades are brand new as of Monday. That means that everyone starts out with 100% - an A! It is up to you to keep this grade. In Algebra, this is very important in making sure you keep a passing grade so that you can use this as High School credit. Every grade from here on out will be figured into your Algebra grade.

This week in Math we are going to first start off by reviewing the different types of numbers and properties. Unfortunately, fewer people did well on last week's quiz than I had hoped, so we are going to review all those topics first! Then for the rest of the week, we are going to start solving equations. Last year we did "solve for the unknown", also known as "one-step" and "two-step" equations. This week we are going to review that, but also add in "multi-step" equations and story problems. As mentioned above, it is critical to take good notes and use them for your class assignments, to make sure you are getting the procedure correct.

In Science we are continuing our study of color. We will be discussing why certain objects are certain colors and if those objects will always be that color, in an activity called "Is an orange always orange". We will also look more closely at combining colored light. This week we will also be having another quiz, so be sure to keep up with all the assignments and questions we go over in class.

Science Spectra-superstars

Today was our first quiz on Light and Color -- focusing mainly on the view of white light, using a diffraction grating or spectroscope. Congratulations to the following people for receiving an 80% or higher on this test.

• NiJaia 90%
• Kevin 80%
• Ravin 90%
• Christina 80%
• Caron 80%
• Trinity 100%
• Jerkirean 80%
• DaShawn 100%
• William 90%
• Khaila 80%
• Floyd 90%
• Marshell 80%
• Quishon 80%
• Laura 90%
• Nicholas 90%
• Kahleel 90%
• Kavon 90%
• Troy 80%
• Angelique 90%
• Patrice 90%

Also, feel free to check out engrade for your most up-to-date science grade. We won't have any other graded assignments this week so the grade that is listed on engrade is your grade for this quarter!

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This week in Math we are going to continue looking at different sets of numbers. Friday we looked at whole numbers, natural numbers, and integers. This week we will add rational numbers and irrational numbers to that. We will also look at the different properties of numbers (commutative, associative, identities, and inverses). At the end of the week we are going to review Lessons 1.1 - 1.3 and have a quiz on Friday. This quiz will be the last grade for this quarter, which ends on Friday.

In Science we are going to continue looking at color and light. Last week we focused on looking at the spectra of white light and this week we are going to focus on looking at spectra of different color lights. Will the spectra look the same or will it look different?

Any questions about this week? Let me know!

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This week in Math we will be starting ALGEBRA!!! We will start this unit by investigating patterns. As most of you should remember, many of the graphs we make have patterns to them. We will be looking at patterns in tables and graphs. We will also recall how to make equations and expressions, and use them to solve different situations.

In Science this week we will be starting our unit on Light and Color. Our first sections to study are looking at the light spectrum and making and using a spectroscope.

Other news this week:

• We will be going on a field trip to Greenfield Village on Wednesday. We will be leaving at 10am and returning at 3pm. Students are expected to bring a bag lunch, unless they requested one from the school. Students must be in full uniform.
• On Thursday, from 5-7pm, there will be a Harvest Festival. Parents and students are welcome. Please be sure to return the form indicating that you will be in attendance if you plan to come. Extra forms can be found in the office. Students that attend the Harvest Festival will be given a ticket for free dress on Friday.
• On Friday, there is a school dance in the afternoon. Tickets are on sale during lunch, for $3, but if you wait until the day of the dance, tickets are $5.
• We only have 2 more weeks left this quarter. Please be aware of your grade and feel free to check out engrade whenever you need to, to double check your grades.

Questions? Let me know!