Famous Scientist Resume

We are starting a short lesson on scientist biographies and resume writing.  The students are assigned a famous scientist, say George Washington Carver for example, pretend that he is alive today and is trying to get a job with the US Department of Agriculture.  The students fill out a resume, then send it off to prospective employers.  The responses from Harvard, US Fish&Wildlife, or Sea World are great fun for all the students.  Talk to your child about who they are researching, where they would likely send the resume to, and what contributions their scientist made to the world.

Math Mid Chapter Quiz Tomorrow

Order of operations and integers will be tested tomorrow.  

Cross Country Meet Tomorrow at Riverbend Elementary

Girls run first at 330 and boys follow at 350ish.

Order of Operation

We have worked all week on becoming better at solving equations using the order of operations.  Homework this week is the blue packet.

Science Etymology Gallery Walk

Today we had our gallery walk.  Great fun and great participation from our students.

ALL MATH CLASSES- HOMEWORK PACKETS HANDED OUT TODAY!!

All math classes worked out of the pre-algebra book today.  We talked about powers, exponents and bases.  The main focus of the lesson was to show them that when we cube, square or whatever, we don't multiply the base by the exponent.  Instead,  we multiply the base by the base the number of times the exponent tells us to.

Science Etymology

In science today we worked on the etymology or "true meaning" of many common science terms.  Of note were diarrhea, gastropod, and hippopotamus.  We will continue working on this new skill tomorrow as we look at many of the science fields we will be discussing.

8th Grade Pre Algebra and 7th Grade Math

Today we began working out of our books.  For the first quarter homework packets will be handed out on Monday and turned in on Friday.  Look for the first homework packets to be handed out tomorrow.

After School Activities

Soccer Starts Today- See Mr. Adams

Cross Country Continues- See Mr. Jones

Science Olympiad Starts Next Week- See Mr. Morley

Week One is Done

What a busy week. It has been fun getting to know all the new students.  Have a safe weekend and we will see you all next week.

What's Going on in Class?

Over the past few days we have been working on community building activities, looking

at how different student learn, and in math, taking the pre-course test to determine strengths and

weaknesses.  No homework.

THE MYSTERY WORD IS "SPIRACLE"

More Stuff To Sign

Please take the time to sign all the paperwork being sent home this year.  If you are not seeing any of this paperwork... here is a list:

*Pp. 39 and 40 from the student handbook

*All academic class syllabuses

*Cross country participation

*Sports Physicals

*Exploratory Forms

Science Syllabus

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc3k48h3_0g5xcwrd5

What's in your bag?  

An assignment designed to help students share a few things about themselves and find commonalities between other classmates is due today.  Ask your child if they can remember any of the things Mr. Jones or other classmates shared.  

Planner pages 39 and 40 need to be signed and returned by this Friday.

Course syllabuses have been handed out.  Please read this document, sign it, and return it by this Friday.