Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thursday, October 6

Final Plea for Fun Run donations!   Please turn in pledges of any amount! There will be prizes for the top fund raisers, including gift cards, a week of Slurpee's, pizza, lunch with teachers, assistant principal for the day, and principal for the day.  There will also be two special prizes (one for PYP and one for MYP - 4th hour class) for the classrooms that raise the most.  Those are $100 work of books for PYP and $100 of educational materials of the class' choice for MYP. Please help us make this fund-raising event great!

Science: Practiced analyzing graphs of motions with both distance vs. time graphs and speed vs. time graphs. No homework. Quizzes are graded and the grades are posted, quizzes will be returned tomorrow.

Geometry: Went over the 2.4 homework and finished the 2.5 notes. Students are getting their first tastes of proofs and may get frustrated. Frustration is ok! Frustration is good! Don't give up! 2.5 worksheet is homework. Chapter 2 quiz is tomorrow. 

Spanish I students must meet me tomorrow Friday by the art room, and we will go to the computer lab at Avery. The 1.1 chapter test has been moved to Tuesday, October 11th

Pre-Algebra: We worked on a review for chapter one.  The test is Monday.  We will review tomorrow.

Algebra: Test tomorrow!  Good luck!

Language Arts: Students turned in their Vocabulary Sentences....we will be having a full blown lesson set next week on Subjects and Predicates, these kids need a review!  We then adjourned to the Lab/Media Center to type our final drafts for our Science Fiction papers.....due tomorrow in this order: Rubric, 1st Draft (with Mark Up) Revision, Final Draft (illustrations will be completed during MEAP week). Also due tomorrow is The Giver Chapters 1-5 & journal ready for Class Discussion.