Bolton Math and ELA

Math: none: took Mod. 2 Test today, beginning Mod. 3 tomorrow.

 

ELA: All Center activities due.

Bolton ELA and Math

ELA: Centers

 

Math: Test Module 2 tomorrow.  Study guide given on Monday.

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students learned and practice some of the properties regarding absolute value.

Homework: Lesson 11 Exit ticket; They may also complete Question #2 from the Problem Set for Extra Credit!

 

Science: The students compared and contrasted an Elodea leaf and a Paramecium and determined which one was an organism and which one wasn't and why.

Homework: Complete the Think Questions for the article "The Lowly Paramecium".

Bolton ELA and MAth

Math: none: district test today

 

ELA: began center activities.

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students defined absolute value and magnitude and learned how to write a statement using absolute value.

Homework: Lesson 11 Problem Set Questions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

 

Science: The students observed a paramecium and recorded its size and behaviors.

Homework: None

SOCIAL STUDIES

Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato

packet

In class work/ small group discussion

extra credit:  Bring in a picture (on your phone) showing me an example of Greek columns in YOUR neighborhood.  Identify as Doric, Ionic or Corinthian

Bolton Math and ELA

ELA: rough draft of essay

 

Math: complete GCF/Distributive property handout, District test tomorrow.  Module 2 Test on Thursday.  Beginning Module 3.

 

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students learned how to write and interpret inequality statements involving rational numbers.

Homework: Lesson 10 Problem Set Questions

 

Science: The students recorded observations of an Elodea leaf when looked at through the microscope.  We also defined a cell.

Homework: None

 

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Bolton Math and ELA

Math: none

ELA: complete questions for Erandi's Braids if did not complete in class.

Stewart Math

Today the students took the end of Module 2 test.

Social Studies

The Great Ones- Olympic Gods and Goddesses work sheet
BOTH sides

Bolton ELA and Math

ELA: none: completed Words Their Way study in class.  Students should have completed categorizing the words on their own.  Ask to see them.

 

Math: Complete page one of GCF and LCM packet. Use prime factorization.

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students learned how to graph rational numbers that fall between integers as well how to determine the opposites.

Homework: Lesson 6 Problem Set

 

Science: The students defined field of view and learned how to determine the size of an object under the microscope at 4X Power.

Homework: None, but there will likely be a quiz on Investigation 2 Thursday or Friday

Social Studies

Rough Draft of paragraph comparing Athen's direct democracy to America's representative democracy 

DUE TUESDAY

Bolton ELA and Math

Math: Lesson 18, p. 75-78, Exploratory Challenge 1 and 2.  If you were not in class today do the first 2 problems from each set (GCF, GCF Word Problems, LCM, LCM Word Problems)

 

ELA: Words Their Way Test tomorrow, final paragraph due of article question.

 

Bolton ELA and Math

Math: Lesson 17 problem set, p. 73

 

ELA: Test tomorrow on Literary Analysis vocabulary.

Peck Math/Science

Math: the students completed the DVMA today in class. 

Homework: None! Tomorrow the students will receive a review packet on integers which will be due on Friday.

 

Science: The students got their tests back and began learning how to use a microscope. Tomorrow the students will be working on a project where they create their own imaginary organism.  This is NOT due on Friday!

Homework: None!

MATH- Stewart

No Homework

We are working on LCM in real life situations.

SOCIAL STUDIES

No homework.

We are answering in class questions as we watch The Last Stand of the 300.

Bolton ELA and Math

ELA: new Word List for this week.  micro-, mega-, hyper-, super- words.  Handout for Drawing Conclusions.

 

Math: none, in class work today.

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students reviewed skills learned in Modules 1 and 2 in preparation for the DVMA this week

Homework: Complete review questions 1-4

 

Science: The students reviewed the 7 main characteristics of life and discovered what materials in the vials they created were living and nonliving.

Homework: Complete the four Thinking Questions from the article "Life on Earth". 

 

Band Students: Please write the following characteristics of life on page 6 in the 8 lines provided:

 

1.  Needs water   2.  Needs energy   3.  Reproduces   4.  Grows and Changes   5.  Exchange gases  

6.  Made of cells  7.  Eliminate waste   8.  Respond to environment

 

*Do not forget to complete the 4 definitions for Living, Dormant, Dead, and Non-living

SOCIAL STUDIES

Persia Attacks the Greeks

Worksheet (2 sided)

Due Tuesday

On Tuesday and Wednesday we will be watching the History Channel's "The Last Stand of the 300". 

Stewart Math

Math Connect p 199 

Engage NY Math- p. s76

 

We are working on Great Common Factors and applying them to real life problems.

 

Bolton Math and ELA

Math: Lesson 15, Problem Set (1-3)

 

ELA: Spelling Test tomorrow, Close read Loch Ness Articles from Scope, (pp. 4-9)

Stewart- MATH

Prime Factorization

p. 30

10-33

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Review of Section 2 Athens and Sparta

p. 130

1-7

Due at the end of class on Friday-

(EARLY RELEASE Friday)

Peck Math/Science

Math: We related positive and negative numbers to differences in elevation, temperature, and money

Homework: Problem Set Lesson 3 1-5 All

 

Science: The students set up an experiment to test certain materials for signs of life.

Homework: None

Bolton Math and ELA

Math: Lesson 14, p. 57 #3, 4, 5 for homework.

 

ELA: Intro vocab handout for Scholastic Scope articles.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Athens and Democracy

worksheet

1-10

pick one of three "Points to Ponder"

Bolton Math and ELA

Math: Lesson 13, p. 52-53, do exercises 1-6.  Students are practicing division in one of two ways.  Sometimes students struggle with the length of these types of problems.  If they are getting the first 3 or 4 digits correct but keep making little mistakes that cause the final answer to be wrong, don't stress.  We are trying to work on fluency, but in that case the student obviously knows the process.

 

ELA: Defining vocab words for Literary Analysis

Stewart MATH

Divisibility Rules p. s69

Social Studies

Lycurgas and Sparta

1-10

pick one of the 3 Points to Ponder

Bolton Math and ELA

Math: none, reviewed fraction division today in class.

 

ELA: gave spelling list for this week, Greek and Latin Number Prefixes (mono, bi, tri), categorized, Test Friday on words.

Peck Math/Science

Math: The students defined and identified positive and negative integers on a number line

Homework: Module 3 Lesson 1 Problem Set  - Complete all questions

 

Science: The students received the Diversity of Life notebook pages and completed the Pretest for this unit.

Homework: PLEASE bring in a binder if possible.  If not, the students need a notebook for this unit and a strong folder to hold the loose pages. 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Ancient Greece

Read p. 116- 123

worksheet 4-1 (BOTH sides)

Due Tuesday