Week of January 25th

First week of the quarter and last week of January. We are starting in on Chapter 5.
The first four lessons cover adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. We have been over this material before and you have been seeing it regularly on your SBR tests. We will have a quiz on Friday. Tuesday, we will be starting a new stock market project. Thursday, we are going to be seeing the Talent Show and it is an early release day.

Week of January 18th

Short week this week. We are supposed to get more snow on Tuesday night, but hopefully we will have school on Wednesday. Your stock market project that you
have been working on since November 3rd is due on Wednesday. Please turn it in on time, you know exactly what is expected. We will be finishing up Chapter 4 this week and will be having a quiz at the end of the week on 4.4 through 4.7.

January 11th

We are back in the swing of things now. Will be going over our 4.1 - 4.3 quizzes. Most of you did very well on it as well as SBR #8. Most of you are earning 3's now. POW #8, our last one of the quarter, is due on Wednesday. You should make a cover sheet for this one and you must show your work. We will continue to work our way through Chapter 4. Our stock market project that we started on November 3 is now drawing to a close. On Friday, we will be selling our stocks. Our write up is due the 20th.

Week of January 4th

Happy New Year and I hope that you had a good vacation. We will be starting in on a new chapter this week, Chapter 4. I will pass out the last POW of the quarter on Wednesday and it will be due the following Wednesday. Don't forget that your stock market projects that you have been working on since November 4th are due on the 20th.

Week of December 14th

Last full week of classes before vacation arrives. The plan is to finish up our work in Chapter 3 and take a test on Thursday, except for Period 3, which will be taking it on Friday morning. You already have POW #7 and it is due on Friday. Have a good week.

Week of Decmber 7th

Another short week, broken up by a half day on Wednesday. Students should be feeling pretty good about mean, median and mode as we have spent several days working on that first lesson in Chapter 3. POW #6 is due on Tuesday. We will be spending the week going over various types of graphs.

November 30th

Hope that you enjoyed your week off from school and had a relaxing Thanksgiving with family and friends. On Monday, we will get back into the swing of school and start looking up challenging vocabulary words as we take a look at Chapter 3. Tuesday and Wednesday, Ms. Dawson from the Technology Department will be in our classroom teaching us to use keynotes and making a short iMovie on mean, median and mode. I will be passing out POW #6 mid-week and it will be due next Tuesday. At the end of the week, we will begin doing homework from the first sections of Chapter 3.