Math (Mar 1-Mar5)

Due Monday March 1
Old Book Pg. 59-63
(1,2,13 and 14)
I am also going to be assigning some problems from CORE for Tuesday and Wednesday, but I am in the process of going through it to see what we need to work on, or review most.

Due Tuesday March 2
Old Book Pg. 59-62
(5,7, and 8)

Due Wednesday
Old Book Pg. 59-63
(9 and 11)

Math (Feb 22-Feb 26)

Because I want your students to be able to be in some control of their schedule, and I know that their lives are busy, I am going to give out the homework for the week on Monday. This is not set in stone, but is a good idea of what we are going to be looking at in class. This way, even if they are having problems with parts of the work, they can come ready for class with questions, and can do homework on the nights that work for them. Hopefully this is helpful to parents and students alike.

Due Monday Feb 22
New Book pg. 55-61 (3-13, 23-25)
pg. 54 (complete investigation 4.3, part C and D)

Due Tuesday Feb 23
Old Book pg. 20-24 (1-8 and 17-22)

Due Wednesday Feb 24
Old Book pg. 59-63 (3 and 10)
CORE packet pg. 10-15

Science

We started off this comparative anatomy unit by examining the physical features of different animals. We are now getting a chance to compare animals in a new way. This is by examining their embryonic development, and coming up this week, comparing them on a molecular level. This will allow me to include some basics of chemistry into this unit, and will give me a chance to make connections back to the unit on cells. Wow! There is so much we can learn by looking at the differences between organisms, but even more by comparing their similarities.

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling- It has been four weeks, and we are about ready to start taking and loading photos into the iMovie program. It is amazing how much preliminary work it takes to create a stop action animation movie. Your students have benen working hard to get just the right pictures to represent the stories and poems that they chose to animate. We created a tentative schedule for finishing the project, and it is time to buckle down. I would appreciate any help you can give your students in getting pictures ready at home if possible.

Book Groups

Book Groups- I am excited to have started working with the 6/7 class book groups. We are starting a project where the students get to read a book, on their own, of their choice. The catch is that it must be one that fewer than two others in class have read. They are doing well choosing books that fit this criterion. We will continue meeting together twice a week to discuss different writing styles used by the various authors, and discuss qualities that make a story interesting.
This project will add new books to the student’s possible book group selection in the future, and peak interest in different types of books than there may have been before. I am making efforts to find copies of the books that were chosen. I am grateful for any efforts to help with this process.

Students who were only a couple of weeks shy of finishing their books in their group will be finishing them as usual, then starting the project. This will stagger them and make presentations easier.

7th grade Math

This last week has been a learning process for me. One thing that I learned is that it is really easy to leave class without having written down the assignment. I thought that a blog might be a good tool to make it easier for your students (and you) to keep track of the work we do in class. I will be careful not to mention any names or personal information. This tool is just to keep you aware of what the work is that we do in class. I am going to be making posts for science, book groups, and digital storytelling as well. I will also start to add some to the Newsletter to make sure that parents and students are all aware of what is going on in class.

This week's homework
Due today (Tuesday 2/16)
New book pg. 42-46 (11,27-31, 33)
pg. 55-58 (1,2,15-17)

Due Wednesday 2/17
New book
Pg. 55-58 (3-5, 25, 26 and CORE packet pg. 5-9)

Thank you for all of your support, and feel free to e-mail or call if that is a better way of communicating with me.
Renee
(Please call the school if you need my number or e-mail address)