Last Day of August!

Another great day here at CMS!

STAAR Math- Make sure you finish your Operations Homework! Remember, we will be making our Duct Tape Note Wallets tomorrow in class. Make sure to have your Duct Tape so we can create these! :)

Newspaper- No homework tonight. Your final copy of your interview is due by Friday. We will start partners tomorrow for our first article hopefully.

Pre-Algebra- Remember that your Vocabulary is due tomorrow! Also, Basic Skills Integers is due on Friday! We have Friday Fun Day coming on Friday where we will be playing some educational games. These will be for a grade and I expect 100% active participation from each member of the class.

Newspaper Blog Post

“What new skills have you learned from having an interview and then writing about the interview?”

Please respond to this blog post in 3-5 sentences. You will receive a 100 as long as you respond with a thoughtful post and with the correct number of sentences.

Check back tomorrow to see what other students say they have learned.

When you have finished, please open Microsoft Word and begin typing your rough draft that is due today. Write your name at the top of the paper. Use a 12-14 point font, only using Tahoma or Times New Roman font. Make sure your spelling is correct, no red lines under misspelled words.

When you are finished, go ahead and print it out. Also save it to your H drive as Interview Rough Draft.

If you finish before the class period is over, please swap papers with another person in the class and read each others paper. Look over what you could possibly change and have a Peer Editing Conference. Discuss things and make changes in pencil on your typed copy.

Turn your typed rough draft in before you leave.

Odd Period Classes 8/30

Flipped Pre-Algebra:

Video for tonight: Properties of Whole Numbers

Do a 3-2-1 response for this. I want to know 3 things you learned, 2 things you want to know more about and 1 example.

Basic Skills Integers w/s will be due on Friday. Don't forget to get all of your work in so that you are able to play games this Friday.

STAAR:

Operations of Integers Practice Problems are due FRIDAY!

Also, check out the new button on the side that says Limeades for Learning. Click on it and it will take you to the site for you to vote for a project that I have created to be funded. I would appreciate any votes that you give. You can vote all the way through September 30th. Share it on your Facebook and have your friends and family vote as well! :) Thanks everyone!

Newspaper 8/29

Journal: Free Write on a topic of your choice in the first section of your spiral.

If you have supplies for me, please have them out on your desk and I will come around and get them.

-Post It Note Activity (Focus and Flow)

Independent Practice: Write a rough draft of your interview article. The rough draft needs to be written in the third section of your spiral. SKIP LINES! Your article should have a flow to it with at least 10 sentences since you asked ten questions. Break it up into paragraphs and group like things together.

Your rough draft is due on Wednesday when come to the Computer Lab.

Starting Strong!

Another great week is upon us and we are definitely starting strong! This week proves to be another busy one and hopefully we will make it through together.

Flipped Pre-Algebra:

Watch the following videos tonight- Adding Integers with Different Signs, Multiplying Negative Real Numbers, and Dividing Real Numbers with Different Signs (these are crucial because you will need these skills for the rest of your life). Notes tonight are simply 1-2 examples from EACH video! :)

Vocabulary Chapter 1 is due on Thursday!

Pre-Algebra:

Review the examples that we went over in class about Absolute Value. Use your graph spiral to help you with your vocabulary and your Vocabulary Chapter 1 is due on Thursday as well!

STAAR Math:

No homework tonight but remember that you need your Duct Tape by Thursday! We will be creating our note wallets on that day. If you don't have your Duct Tape, you will be creating your note cards and have to find a safe place to store them until you do.

Newspaper:

Check your assignment post for what you need to be doing today and for homework. It will be posted at 10 am.

Newspaper Assmt. 8/26

It's Friday! WOO HOO!

Journal (write this in your spiral): Look at the list of 10 topics that you wrote about the other

day. Choose from the top 3 topics to find a topic that you love the most! Create a KWL graphic organizer of everything that you know and want to know about the topic. You need to have at least three things in each of the K and W columns. You will not fill out the L column. It should look like this in your spiral.

When you finish your journal, go to this article on How To Write an Interview Article and read it. You have already completed steps 1 and 2. Today you are going to work on step 3 and 4.

What is your focus of your interview? What do you want others to know about this person? After you have found the important parts of your interview transcript, write in the third section of your spiral the following things:

Interview Date:

Person Interviewed:

Focus (main idea):

Key Points (should have 3-5):

**Your focus and Key Points should be written in a complete sentence.**

We made it!

I am so happy to say that we have made it through the first week of school without many hiccups! I am loving my classes more and more each day. Their attention to detail and getting their work done is amazing me more and more every day! You are already knocking my socks off and I hope that as the year continues it not only continues to gets even better!

Flipped Pre-Algebra (1st Period): Please go to Khan Academy and watch the "Absolute Value of Integers" video this weekend. Take notes in either KWL format or 3-2-1. We will talk about this on Monday.

Newspaper: You have done an amazing job in the computer lab this week and I couldn't be happier! Next week we will get our first article assignments for the upcoming publication of the first newspaper!

Pre-Algebra (8th Period): You are doing great and working hard in class. No homework this weekend unless you didn't finish some of your assignments this week. You may turn them in on Monday for a max of a 70.

Remember, you are SMART, you are IMPORTANT and I Love You! Have a great weekend!