Week of 5/25/09 and 6/1

Final Goals are set for math classes: JA7 Math is 108 by June 3rd and JA8 Math is 110 by June 3rd. More objectives will be taught than required to master so students have potential choices to make to achieve as much as possible. Students who choose to fool around and disrupt the class will be removed so those tending to business may have a chance to improve their grade.

JA7 MATH

TUESDAY: Star Math and Star Reading Tests this week until all have taken them. Objectives 97-100 covering plotting points, translations, reflections and rotations
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 101-104 on intersecting and parallel lines, transversals, parts of a circle, and parts of polygons
THURSDAY: Objectives 106-109 on circumferences, word problems, estimating area and area of squares and rectangles
FRIDAY: Catch up and reward time

MONDAY: Work time
TUESDAY: Work time
WEDNESDAY: Work time
THURSDAY: JA and Academy Awards at London Bridge Convention Center from 8:00- 11:00 A.M. Have a great and safe summer!

JA8 MATH

TUESDAY: Objectives 83-86 covering evaluating expressions with exponents, negative exponents, multiplication and division with exponents and taking a power to a power
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 132, 147, 148 on odds, converting customary units and converting metric units
THURSDAY: Objectives 149 and 150 converting complex units and calculating and using rates
FRIDAY: Catch up and reward time

MONDAY: Work time
TUESDAY: Work time
WEDNESDAY: Work time
THURSDAY: JA and Academy Awards at London Bridge Convention Center from 8:00 - 11:00 A.M. Have a great and safe summer!


JA8 SCIENCE

TUESDAY: Discuss Ch 4 Section 1 on polymers and composites. Review for Post test
WEDNESDAY: Make polymer. Review for post test
THURSDAY: Continue polymers and review for post test
FRIDAY: Post test counts as final exam grade

The following labs are designed for fun to utilize what we learned this year. Any students not tending to business as assigned will be removed from class.

MONDAY: Stacking cups and Bouncing Tennis balls labs
TUESDAY:
WEDNESDAY:
THURSDAY: JA and Academy Awards at London Bridge Convention Center from 8:00 - 11:00 A.M. Have a great and safe summer!

Week of May 18-22

JA7 MATH - Goal this week 100 objectives

MONDAY: Objective 87 - congruent triangles, 88 - similar triangles, 89 - word problems with similar triangles
TUESDAY: Objective 90 - missing angles, 91 - Classify plane and solid figures
WEDNESDAY: Objective 92 - Solids, 93 - Parts of solid figures, 94 - Count faces, edges, and vertices
THURSDAY: Objective 95 - Lines of Symmetry, 96 - Flips, Turns, Slides
FRIDAY: Catch up or Rewards earned

JA8 MATH - Goal this week 102 objectives

MONDAY: Objectives 121 Stem and Leaf Plots, 122 Box and Whisker Plots
TUESDAY: Objectives 87 and 88 Scientific Notation
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 91 - Square Roots, 92 - Rational/Irrational Square Roots, 93 - Estimate square roots
THURSDAY: Objective 130 - Probability of single events, 131 - Probability of complements of events, 133 - Probability of dependent events, 134 - Probability of dependent events
FRIDAY: Catch up or Rewards

JA8 SCIENCE

MONDAY: Alien Periodic Table due after 30 minutes of work time in class. Assignment is WS 208-210 due Tuesday
TUESDAY: Lab WS 215-218 due by end of class Wednesday
WEDNESDAY: Tuesday's lab and crossword due by end of class, WS 212 and 213 in class, Assignment p 113-115, questions 1-22 and 1-6 due Thursday for review for Friday's test on Chapter 3
THURSDAY: pg 113-115 due, Review for Friday's test
FRIDAY: Test Ch 3 / Read Chapter 4, Section 1 on Polymers and Composites

Week of 5/11/09

JA7 MATH

MONDAY: New goal for this week is 92 objectives. Today objective 79 classifying angles and objective 80 measuring angles
TUESDAY: Objective 81 supplementary, complementary, adjacent angles and objective 82 identify polygons
WEDNESDAY: Objective 83 classifying quadrilaterals and objective 84 classifying triangles by angles and sides
THURSDAY: Objective 85 congruent and similar figures and objective 86 corresponding parts of similar figures
FRIDAY: Rewards day or catch up

JA8 MATH

MONDAY: This week's goal is 94 objectives. Objective 112 simple interest and objective 113 on mean, median, mode and range
TUESDAY: Objective 116 frequency distribution and line plots and objective 117 bar graphs
WEDNESDAY: Objective 118 scatter plots and 119 histograms
THURSDAY: Objective 120 circle graphs
FRIDAY: Rewards and catch up

JA8 SCIENCE

MONDAY: WS 174-175 due. Assignment is reading of p 80-87 and WS 180-182 (Organizing the elements)
TUESDAY: WS 180-182 due. Assign reading of section 3 on metals p 88-95 and WS 188-190.
WEDNESDAY: WS 188-190 due. Assign reading of section 4 on non-metals and metalloids
THURSDAY: Assign WS 197-200
FRIDAY: WS 197-200 due. Do Alien Periodic Table

Week of 5/5/09 to 5/8/09

JA7 MATH

TUESDAY: Test on objectives 152-159
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 162, 163 Scale drawings and percent of decrease
THURSDAY: Objectives 164, 165 percent of increase and percent of a number
FRIDAY: Goal is 84 objectives mastered to here. Reward day or catch up

JA8 MATH

TUESDAY: Test on objectives 98-105
WEDNESDAY: Objective 108-109 Find base in a percent problem and word problems with percent
THURSDAY: Objectives 110-111 discount or mark up and word problems with percent of change
FRIDAY: Goal is 87 objectives masterd to date. Reward day or catch up

JA8 SCIENCE

TUESDAY: Collect all work from sub and verify what needs to be finished today
WEDNESDAY: Demo and write up on liquid density. Assign chapter review questions p 69-71 all.
THURSDAY: Go over questions p 69-71 and review for Friday test on Chapter 2
FRIDAY: Test chapter 2. Assign reading of chapter 3 section 1 on pages 74-49.

Week of 4/27-5/4/09

JA7 MATH

MONDAY: Obj 150-151 changing % to decimals and mixed number percents to decimals
TUESDAY: Catch up day
WEDNESDAY: Obj 152-153 changing % to fractions and fractions to %
THURSDAY: Obj 154-155 Ratios as fractions and ratios as rates in lowest terms
FRIDAY: Obj 156-157 Ratios as % and equivalent ratios
MONDAY: Obj 158-159 Unit rates and ratios as proportions

JA8 MATH

MONDAY:
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WEDNESDAY: Obj 98-99 ratios as fractions in lowest terms and words to porportions
THURSDAY: Obj 100-101 solve proportions and word problems with porportions
FRIDAY: Obj 102-103 Decimals to % and fractions to %
MONDAY: Obj 104-105 Changing % to decimals and changing % to fractions

JA8 SCIENCE

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Week of 4/20/09-4/24/09

To all my classes: I will be absent Wednesday 4/29 through Monday 5/4 (4 days) for my daughter's wedding in Ohio. There will be no afterschool math help on those days. It will resume on Wednesday, 5/6/09. Students will be in the capable hands of Mrs. Morrow for all four days.

JA7 MATH

MONDAY: Objectives 65 and 66 on word problems with fractions and mixed numbers and division of fractions
TUESDAY: Obj. 67 and 68 on dividing mixed numbers and word problems dividing fractions
WEDNESDAY: Obj. 146 and 147 on changing decimals into mixed numbers and changing mixed numbers into decimals
THURSDAY: Obj 148 and 149 on changing fractions into repeating decimals and decimals into percents
FRIDAY: Catch up and reward time

JA8 MATH

MONDAY: Objectives 162 and 163 on surface area of prisms and surface areas of spheres, cones, pyramids and cylinders
TUESDAY: Obj 164 and 165 on word problems involving area and the volume of rectangular solids
WEDNESDAY: Obj 166 and 167 on the volume of cylinders and cones
THURSDAY: Obj 168 and 169 on the volume of pyramids and spheres
FRIDAY: Catch up and reward time

JA8 SCIENCE

MONDAY: WS 78 connecting concepts, Assignment of Poster for Assessment (with Rubric) due Thursday, Assignment of p 37-39 questions due Wednesday
TUESDAY: Worktime
WEDNESDAY: Worktime and 37-39 due
THURSDAY: Poster due, review for Friday's test
FRIDAY: Open book test on Chapter 1

Week of 4/13/09

JA7 MATH

MONDAY: No school
TUESDAY: New goal for the week is 64 objectives. Today's objectives were easy and many mastered them today. Hooray!
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 61 & 62: multiplying fractions and mixed numbers and fractions
THURSDAY: Objectives 63 & 64: multiplying mixed numbers and fractions and whole numbers
FRIDAY: Catch up or reward time for goals met

JA8 MATH

MONDAY: No school
TUESDAY: New goal for the week is 67 objectives. Today's objectives were easy and many mastered them today.
WEDNESDAY: Objectives 158 & 159: area of parallelograms and triangles
THURSDAY: Objectives 160 & 161: area of trapezoids and circles
FRIDAY: Catch up or rewards for goals met

JA8 SCIENCE

MONDAY: No school
TUESDAY: Answer questions on page 20
WEDNESDAY: Answer questions on page 27
THURSDAY: Answer questions on page 33
FRIDAY: No assignment - 4 demonstrations: electrolysis, distillation, combustion causing thermal change