Hello once again! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the nice weather. The weeks ahead are busy here at school. This Friday there is no school for students because it is a teacher grading day. Next week, there is only school on Monday and Tuesday because of conferences on Wednesday and Thursday. Students should be bringing home sheets so you can choose what time works best for you, so please sign and return those as quickly as possible. We all look forward to meeting with you next week! Here is what is currently happening in the classroom:
Language Arts: This week we are continuing to work on different literary devices. For example, students wrote a poem in class today utilizing their knowledge of similes and metaphors. We will continue to explore and apply various poetic devices this week as well as begin speeches for Novel Project # 3 which will culminate next week. Please be sure to have your child practice in front of you or the family dog!
MATH: ALGEBRA-
Monday- Today we will be continuing to graph quadratic equations in
standard form
Tuesday- Students will work with quadratic equations written
in vertex form
Wednesday- Students will graph equations in vertex form
Thursday- Students will solve quadratic equations by square
rooting.
PRE-ALGEBRA- Monday and Tuesday- Students will be working with multiplication of terms with exponents
Wednesday and Thursday- Students will be working with division of
terms with exponents
SOCIAL SCIENCE: We will begin our week with a visit from the high school counselors who will talk about Freshman registration. Students will have a chance to ask questions and find out how to sign up for classes. We will spend the rest of the week finishing our unit on Manifest Destiny. On Tuesday and Wednesday we will be looking at primary source documents on the War with Mexico to determine the causes of the war. We will have our Assessment on this unit on Thursday. Students have notes and a map that they can be reviewing at home to prepare.
SCIENCE:We will be conducting a scientific work-sample this week. All work-samples need to be completed by Thursday 4/10/14. Any students experiencing absences will need to come in before or after school to complete the work-sample.
Monday:
Finish Sugar Cube Lab write up
Tuesday:
Plop-Plop Fizz-Fizz Lab (background, hypothesis, procedures)
Wednesday:
Conduct Lab
Thursday:
Final write up
