Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thursday, Aug. 30

Team 8-4 Teacher Contact Information Cards were sent home with the students. They look like blue business cards. Please ask you child for one.

ALGEBRA
In Class: Introduced writing expressions, equations and inequalities from the verbal sentence.
Assignment: Page 35 exercises 1-28.

PRE-ALGEBRA
In Class: Used integers tile pictures to add integers.
Assignment: Complete worksheets 2 and 3.

ENGLISH
Bell Work: Students wrote the definitions of the eight parts of speech in their journals
and also wrote sample sentences for each.
In Class: Students discussed the parts of speech. A worksheet reviewing the parts of speech was given.
Assignment: Parts of speech worksheet is due tomorrow. We will have a parts of speech/six traits of writing quiz tomorrow -- notes are in student journals.

The HISTORY Experience
Experienced at School: The students completed the Regarding the Boston Massacre and began work on the Learning Opportunity worksheet for Chapter 5, sections 4 & 5.
Experience at Home: Complete the Learning Opportunity worksheet for Chapter 5, sections 4 & 5 or be prepared for the Six Question quiz.

SCIENCE
In Class: We wrote the first three steps of the Scientific Method out using the paper towel experiment. We finished researching, writing, and handed it in. Be sure yours gets done. We started talking about setting up data tables.
Assignment: No assignment
Journal: See attached sheet.

YOU HAVE TWO DAYS FOR EACH DAY YOU ARE ABSENT TO TURN IN YOUR MAKE-UP WORK.