Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tuesday April 13th, 2010

7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today students continued with the Standard Based Assessments. Students took the reading assessment today.
Homework: None

7th Grade Math: In math 7th graders began class with their flashmasters. After five minutes, we transitioned into discussing the distributive property of multiplication for about fifteen minutes. Next, we introduced students to coordinate planes. We talked about the origin, quadrants, and the x and y axis. The chapter 6 test will be this Friday.
Homework:
  • Review Homework #3 is due Wednesday.

8th Grade Math: Today 8th graders began class by grading the 7.1 worksheet as a class. We then transitioned into learning about percents and proportions. After some whole class discussions and doing some practice problems together, students were given some examples to work on themselves. We will go into more detail tomorrow. Chapter 6 test will be this Friday.
Homework:
  • Review #3 is due Wednesday.