Math (April 19-23)

These are the missing assignments from the week after SBA's that I apparently forgot to post.
Due Monday Ace 4 (4-8, 17-21, 34)
Due Tuesday Ace 4 (10-16 even, 22,24,27,28,33-37 odd)
Due Wednesday Ace 5 (2-5, 13)

Math (April 26)

I am sorry that I have been a little behind on the connect page, but the SBA's made the homework that I assigned a bit different than planned.
Due
Monday Ace 5 (6,11,14)
Tuesday Ace 5 (1,7-10, 12)
Wednesday (Soon to come)

Science

We have started our Physics unit. We will be spending a lot of time outside for the next few weeks conducting experiments. We started looking at mass on Monday. Mass is measured with a scale, and the units are kilograms, which is a weight, but mass is not the same thing as weight. Your weight on the moon would be less than on earth, but your mass does not change. So what is mass? Ask your students what they are learning in the next few weeks. It should be fun.

Math (April 12-16)

Monday Ace 4 (1-3, 26, 29, 32)
SBAs are on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so we will pick up here the following week.

Math (April 5-9)

Due Monday
ACE 3 (21-24, 33, 39, 40)
I am setting some time aside on Tuesday and Wednesday to go over the practice SBA that the students took last Thursday. I am not sure how long this will take, but I anticipate that it will take more than one day. If not, I will add the homework for Wednesday to the blog when we get there.

Math for Monday March 29

Ace 2 (8, 9, 11, 12, 14-26 even, 32, 34)
Ace 3 (11-14, 34)

Tree of Life

I have been working on making the poster boards templates for the Tree-of-Life poster boards. I have drawn lines for the students to write their text on. They should write in pencil first, then follow with a thin tip permanent marker. I bought some for the classroom, and they are more than welcome to trace their writing here. I was initially going to cut the poster to a smaller size, but some students were concerned that they would not have enough room, so I am giving the students the ability to trim their poster if they need to, or to leave it in its original size.

I have also given the students the opportunity to take paper home for working on their torn paper art. There is a template for the art as well, and it is cut to the correct size. They can work on these over break if that will help them to feel more prepared. The art that I have seen so far is beautiful, and is giving a good idea of the habitats where the animals live. The students should be making two pictures for each animal (8 background in total).

I also included a more detailed checklist for what information I expect to find in the divergent trait portion of the project.