Social Studies News Week of: April 18th

Assignments for the week:

Monday: Wrap up Common Assessment 2 (we started this on Friday in class and will finish it today)

Tues: "Democracy" assignment--we'll complete this in class today.

**We'll spend a couple of days reviewing and we're scheduled for our Ancient Greece Unit Test either on Thursday 4/20 or Friday, April 21st--Students will know by Tuesday of next week which day it will be.  They will also be getting a study guide early next week.

Science News- Week of Apr. 18th

Monday: "Ahead of Wave" Reading/Writing Analysis, Parts of a Wave Notes/Practice, Changing Waves Observations

Tuesday: Wavy Motions Lab/Conclusion, Wave Comic Strip

Wednesday: Properties of Waves Close Reading/Notes, Parts of a Wave Video, Wave Comic Strip

Thursday: Practice Benchmark Assessment, Wave Interaction Reading, Notes, Lab

Friday: Share Comic Strips, Wave Quiz, Science of Light Reading/Notes

ELA News Week of April 11

Nightly homework:  Read!  We have an April one pager on the 27th that they need to have a book finished for.

Monday:  Scope magazine- cause & effect
Tuesday: Scope magazine- tone, vocabulary
Wednesday: Week 1 reading evidence paragraph
Thursday: 4th quarter survival book exploration
Friday: Readers' theater- mood, inferences

Math News Week of April 11th

After finishing up our unit on volume and surface area last week, we will be moving on to some different statistics concepts this week. Early in the week we will review how to find the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data. We will also be learning how to set up and use spreadsheets to organize data. Here is a list of our upcoming assignments.

Due 4/12      Lesson 1A-B    Pg 646-648 #5-7, 9-19 odds, 13

Due 4/13      Lesson 1C-D    Pg 652-654 #1-9 odds, 13, 15, 22-23

Due 4/14      Lesson 1E        Pg 656 #5-10

Due 4/15      Lesson 1F        Pg 659-660 # 1-7 odds, 8, 10-11, 13-16

Due 4/18      Lesson 2A        Pg 663-665 #1-2, 4-6, 13-17

Science News- Week of Apr. 11-15

Monday: Demonstration Project Work Time/ Study Guide Review

Tuesday: Demonstration Project Work Time/ Study Guide Review

Wednesday: Present Demonstration Projects

Thursday: Mixtures, Solutions, and Chemical Reactions Assessment, Wave Notes

Friday: Wave Notes, Tsunami Activities/ Writing Analysis

Social Studies News Week of: April 4th

This week in Social Studies we'll be finishing up & presenting our Presidential Candidate projects that students were working on before break.  We will be having a middle-school wide election on Tuesday just like the rest of the state.  The later part of the week we will be introducing Greek Culture projects that we'll be starting research on.  Students will be researching a topic related to Ancient Greek culture that is a part of our current unit.  We will have time in class to research on Wed-Fri.  The projects will be due early next week (probably Tuesday.)

Math News Week of April 4th

This week we will be finishing up our unit focused on volume and surface area. We have learned how to find the volume of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones, as well as the surface area of several of these figures! After doing some review and a few new lessons this week, we will take our Chapter 10 Test this Friday. Here are the upcoming assignments for math.

Due 4/6        Lesson 4A        Pg 621-622 #1-2, 5-9 odds, 13-17 odds

Due 4/7        Lesson 4B        Pg 628-629 #1-2, 5-7, 16, 21

Due 4/8        Study Guide    Pg 632-635 #2-3, 9-10, 12-13, 15-16, 18-19, 25-26