Friday, November 30, 2012

DECEMBER 3 - 7


NO MEDIOCRITY – TOWARDS EXCELLENCE!!

Make Christmas 2012 special for a child
Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphanged children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severly handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have anuts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 4th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphange.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!
If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit:  http://www.nph-honduras.org/

Baskets for our Support Personnel
Christmas is the season to open our hearts and share with those around us that need it most. It has been a tradition at Discovery School for students to come together and contribute in assembling baskets of goods for our support personnel.  We are asking for your cooperation in sending the following:
6th grade students         1 5-lb bag of beans
7th grade students         1 5 lb bag of rice
Please feel free to send any additional goodies that you want to share with our devoted staff, such as canned goods, instant soups, cookies and crackers, or anything else that does not require refrigeration.  Please send these items no later than Friday, December 14th. Your cooperation will be deeply appreciated.

Reminders:
  • Starting Monday, November 5, homework needs to be turned in at the beginning of the day. (HOMEWORK BOX) No work no credit.
  • Do not forget to make your index cards with rules and procedures on a daily basis.
  • Homework must be kept in your binder at all times.
  • Quizzes are given back to the students once they are graded and discussed in class. They are placed in the binders. Corrections are made in the notebook.
  • Please bring all supplies to class every day (book, notebook, binder, pencil case)
  • Check ENGRADE every week.
  • MATH OLYMPICS TEAM: Will meet Wednesday, December 5. 
Dates to remember:
  • Tuesday, December 4 → Quiz # 9 for 6th grade and Quiz # 11 for 7th grade
  • Thursday, December 6 → Noche Beneficiosa @ Pollo Tropical from 3:30 – 9:00 pm
  • Tuesday, December 18 → End of II Quarter and Songfest @ 6:00 pm
MAP TOOLKIT
Do you want to improve your MAP scores? For math, look at your RIT range by goal strand for Fall 2012 (Use the index card we made in class). Use these numbers to select appropriate activities under each goal area. For example, if your RIT range for Geometry is 175-190, you would go to the click on the 171-180 and 181-190 links under Geometry and Measurement in order for find activities at your level. Since Geometry and Measurement are grouped together, you would be looking for geometry skills, such as shapes. Here is the math website:

6th grade: You can also use this website to help you practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6
7th grade: You can also use this website to help you practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-7

6TH GRADE BASIC MATH

Monday 3
5-1 Multiplying a Fraction and a Whole Number
Online tutor:
Homework: Study for quiz (lessons 4-4 → 4-9)
Tuesday 4
Quiz # 9
Homework: Worksheet 5-1
Wednesday 5
5-2 Multiplying Fractions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 6
5-3 Estimating with Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 7
5-4 Multiplying Mixed Numbers
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 10 → Wednesday, December 12 (lessons 5-1 → 5-5)

7TH GRADE PRE ALGEBRA

Monday 3
6-5 Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Online tutor:
Homework: Study for quiz (lessons 6-1 → 6-4)
Tuesday 4
Quiz # 11
Homework: Worksheet 6-5
Wednesday 5
6-6 Proportions and Percents
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 6
6-7 Percents and Equations
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 7
6-8 Percent of Change
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 12 → Thursday, December 13 (lessons 6-5 → 6-10)

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26 - 30


NO MEDIOCRITY – TOWARDS EXCELLENCE!!

 Make Christmas 2012 special for a child

Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphanged children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severly handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have anuts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 4th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphange.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!
If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit:  http://www.nph-honduras.org/

Reminders:

  • Starting Monday, November 5, homework needs to be turned in at the beginning of the day. (HOMEWORK BOX) No work no credit.
  • Do not forget to make your index cards with rules and procedures on a daily basis.
  • Homework must be kept in your binder at all times.
  • Quizzes are given back to the students once they are graded and discussed in class. They are placed in the binders. Corrections are made in the notebook.
  • Please bring all supplies to class every day (book, notebook, binder, pencil case)
  • Check ENGRADE every week.
  • MATH OLYMPICS TEAM: Will meet until Wednesday, December 5.

Dates to remember:

  • Tuesday, November 27 → Quiz # 10 for 7th grade
  • Wednesday, November 28 → Early dismissal (PM schedule)

MAP TOOLKIT

Do you want to improve your MAP scores? For math, look at your RIT range by goal strand for Fall 2012 (Use the index card we made in class). Use these numbers to select appropriate activities under each goal area. For example, if your RIT range for Geometry is 175-190, you would go to the click on the 171-180 and 181-190 links under Geometry and Measurement in order for find activities at your level. Since Geometry and Measurement are grouped together, you would be looking for geometry skills, such as shapes. Here is the math website:

6th grade: You can also use this website to help you practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6

7th grade: You can also use this website to help you practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-7
  
6th  GRADE BASIC MATH

Monday 26
4-6 Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Tuesday 27
4-7 Choose a Computation Method
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday 28
No class with me this day
Thursday 29
4-8 Problem Solving Skill: Exact Answer or Estimate
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 30
4-9 Problem Solving Application
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 9 → Tuesday, December 4 (lessons 4-4 → 4-9)

7th  GRADE PRE ALGEBRA

Monday 26
6-1 Ratios and Unit Rates
Online tutor:
Homework: Study for quiz (lessons 5-5 → 5-9)
Tuesday 27
Quiz # 10
Homework: Worksheet 6-1
Wednesday 28
6-2 Proportions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 29
6-3 Similar Figures and Scale Drawings
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 30
6-4 Probability
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 11 → Tuesday, December 4 (lessons 6-1 → 6-4)

Friday, November 16, 2012

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19 - 23


NO MEDIOCRITY – TOWARDS EXCELLENCE!!

Make Christmas 2012 special for a child
Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphanged children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severly handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have anuts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 4th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphange.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!
If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/

Reminders:
  • Starting Monday, November 5, homework needs to be turned in at the beginning of the day. (HOMEWORK BOX) No work no credit.
  • Do not forget to make your index cards with rules and procedures on a daily basis.
  • Homework must be kept in your binder at all times.
  • Quizzes are given back to the students once they are graded and discussed in class. They are placed in the binders. Corrections are made in the notebook.
  • Please bring all supplies to class every day (book, notebook, binder, pencil case)
  • Check ENGRADE every week.
  • MATH OLYMPICS TEAM: Will meet Wednesday, November 21.

Dates to remember:
  • Wednesday, November 21 → Progress reports go home + Quiz # 9 for 6th grade
  • Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 → Thanksgiving holiday
  • Tuesday, November 27 → Quiz # 10 for 7th grade
  • Wednesday, November 28 → Early dismissal (PM schedule)

MAP TOOLKIT
Do you want to improve your MAP scores? For math, look at your RIT range by goal strand for Fall 2012 (Use the index card we made in class). Use these numbers to select appropriate activities under each goal area. For example, if your RIT range for Geometry is 175-190, you would go to the click on the 171-180 and 181-190 links under Geometry and Measurement in order for find activities at your level. Since Geometry and Measurement are grouped together, you would be looking for geometry skills, such as shapes. Here is the math website:

6th graders: You can also use this website to help you practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-6
7th graders: You can also use this website to help you practice:

6TH GRADE BASIC MATH

Monday 19
4-4 Estimating Sums and Differences of Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Online tutor:
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/academy123/english/academy123_content/wl-book-demo/ph-805s.html
Homework: Worksheet
Tuesday 20
4-5 Adding Mixed Numbers
Online tutor:
Homework: study for quiz (lessons 4-1 → 4-3)
Wednesday 21
Quiz # 9
Homework: Worksheet 4-5
Thursday 22
NO SCHOOL
Friday 23
NO SCHOOL

7TH GRADE PRE ALGEBRA

Monday 19
5-8 Solving Equations by Multiplying Fractions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Tuesday 20
5-9 Powers of Products and Quotients
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday 21
Review game
Thursday 22
NO SCHOOL
Friday 23
NO SCHOOL

Quiz # 10 → Tuesday, November 27 (lessons 5-5 → 5-9)

Friday, November 9, 2012

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12 - 19


NO MEDIOCRITY – TOWARDS EXCELLENCE!!

Reminders:

  • Starting this Monday, November 5, homework needs to be turned in at the beginning of the day. (HOMEWORK BOX) No work no credit.
  • Do not forget to make your index cards with rules and procedures on a daily basis.
  • Homework must be kept in your binder at all times.
  • Quizzes are given back to the students once they are graded and discussed in class. They are placed in the binders. Corrections are made in the notebook.
  • Please bring all supplies to class every day (book, notebook, binder, pencil case)
  • Check ENGRADE every week.
  • MATH OLYMPICS TEAM: We will meet Wednesday, November 14. 
Dates to remember:

  • Tuesday, November 13 → Quiz # 8 for 6th grade and Quiz # 9 for 7th grade
  • Thursday, November 15 → Midterm
  • Friday, November 16 → No School due to Teacher’s Conference
  • Wednesday, November 21 → Progress reports go home
  • Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 → Thanksgiving holiday
  • Wednesday, November 28 → Early dismissal (PM schedule) 
MAP TOOLKIT

Do you want to improve your MAP scores? For math, look at your RIT range by goal strand for Fall 2012 (Use the index card we made in class). Use these numbers to select appropriate activities under each goal area. For example, if your RIT range for Geometry is 175-190, you would go to the click on the 171-180 and 181-190 links under Geometry and Measurement in order for find activities at your child’s level. Since Geometry and Measurement are grouped together, you would be looking for geometry skills, such as shapes.

Here is the math website:

6TH GRADE BASIC MATH

Monday 12
4-1 Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators
Online tutor:
Homework: study for quiz (lessons 3-6 →3-12)
Tuesday 13
Quiz # 8
Homework: Worksheet 4-1
Wednesday 14
4-2 Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 15
Midterm
4-3 Look for a Pattern
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 16
NO SCHOOL

Tentative date for Quiz # 9 → Tuesday, November 20 (lessons 4-1 → 4-3)

7TH GRADE PRE ALGEBRA

Monday 12
5-5 Using Customary Units of Measurement
Online tutor:
Homework: Study for Quiz # 10 (lessons 5-1 → 5-4)
Tuesday 13
Quiz # 9
Homework: Worksheet 5-5
Wednesday 14
 5-6 Problem Solving: Work Backward
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 15
Midterm
5-7 Solving Equations by Adding or Subtracting Fractions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 16
NO SCHOOL



Friday, November 2, 2012

WEEK OF NOVEMEBR 5 - 9


NO MEDIOCRITY – TOWARDS EXCELLENCE!!

Reminders:

  • Starting this Monday, November 5, homework needs to be turned in at the beginning of the day. No work no credit.
  • Do not forget to make your index cards with rules and procedures on a daily basis.
  • Homework must be kept in your binder at all times.
  • Quizzes are given back to the students once they are graded and discussed in class. They are placed in the binders. Corrections are made in the notebook.
  • Please bring all supplies to class every day (book, notebook, binder, pencil case)
  • Check ENGRADE every week.
Dates to remember:

  • Tuesday, November 13 → Quiz # 8 for 6th grade and Quiz # 9 for 7th grade
  • Thursday, November 15 → Midterm
  • Friday, November 16 → No School due to Teacher’s Conference
  • Wednesday, November 21 → Progress reports go home
  • Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 → Thanksgiving holiday
  • Wednesday, November 28 → Early dismissal (PM schedule)
MAP TOOLKIT

Do you want to improve your MAP scores? For math, look at your RIT range by goal strand for Fall 2012. Use these numbers to select appropriate activities under each goal area. For example, if your RIT range for Geometry is 175-190, you would go to the click on the 171-180 and 181-190 links under Geometry and Measurement in order for find activities at your child’s level. Since Geometry and Measurement are grouped together, you would be looking for geometry skills, such as shapes.
           
Here is the math website:

6TH GRADE BASIC MATH

*Some of this week’s lessons are long and complex. We might take longer than what is planned to complete them.

Monday 5
We will work on the students’ Goal Setting Worksheets in order to use to the MAP toolkit. If your child has a laptop or iPad with internet, please allow them to bring them to school this day so we can all access together and learn how to use the toolkit.
Tuesday 6
3-9 Estimating Fractional Amounts
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday 7
3-10 Connecting Fractions and Decimals
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 8
3-11 Comparing and Ordering Fractions and Decimals
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 9
3-12 Problem Solving Skill: Multiple Step Problems
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 8 → Tuesday, November 13 (lessons 3-6 →3-12)

7TH GRADE PRE ALGEBRA

Monday 5
We will work on the students’ Goal Setting Worksheets in order to use to the MAP toolkit. If your child has a laptop or iPad with internet, please allow them to bring them to school this day so we can all access together and learn how to use the toolkit.
5-2 Fractions and Decimals
Online tutor:
Homework: Go over links
Tuesday 6
Continuation lesson 5-2
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday 7
 5-3 Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Thursday 8
5-4 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet
Friday 9
5-5 Using Customary Units of Measurement
Online tutor:
Homework: Worksheet

Tentative date for Quiz # 9 → Tuesday, November 13 (lessons 5-1 → 5-4)