January 3-13, 2011

Wow!! Another year!! 2010 flew by and before we know it we will officially be finished with 1/2 of our school year. If the second half goes as well as the first half, we will be in good shape!! :-)

The first two weeks of 2011 will be spent on review (to refresh the students after their Christmas break), new instruction, a pretest and a test. The specifics are as follows.

7th grade:
Mon., Jan. 3 - Fri., Jan. 7: The 7th graders will not have homework this entire week. We will be working on a Fraction/Decimal/Percent mini-unit that will include lots of practice with equivalencies and will culminate with a quiz on Friday over common fractions, decimals, and percents.

Mon., Jan. 10: Pretest in class
Tues., Jan. 11: Test!
Wed., Jan. 12: no homework
Thurs., Jan. 13: end of quarter; good behavior field trip; no class; early dismissal at 12:40 p.m.
Fri., Jan. 14 & Mon., Jan. 17: NO SCHOOL

8th grade:
Mon., Jan. 3: no homework
Tues., Jan. 4: L. 54
Wed., Jan. 5: no homework
Thurs., Jan. 6: L. 57
Fri., Jan. 7: no homework

Mon., Jan. 10: Pretest in class
Tues., Jan. 11: Test!
Wed.: no homework
Thurs., Jan. 13: end of quarter; good behavior field trip; no class; early dismissal at 12:40 p.m.
Fri., Jan. 14 & Mon., Jan. 17: NO SCHOOL

December 20-22, 2010

We've had an eventful week with 3 days out of school! We've got 3 more days until Christmas break. We need to keep working hard until then!!

The homework assignment for 7th graders this week will be a worksheet that will be assigned on Monday. Other than that, no homework.

8th graders will be assigned L. 51 on Monday.

December 13-17, 2010

We're obviously getting close to our Christmas break. The students are doing a good job of staying focused even though I know they are getting excited. We will have an early dismissal on Wed., Dec. 22 at 2:20. School will resume on Monday, Jan. 3.

The 7th grade assignments for Dec. 13-17 are as follows:
Mon. - worksheet
Tues. - L. 41, due Friday
Wed. - Friday - no homework
*TEST on Friday. We will complete a pretest in class on Thursday.

The 8th grade assignments are as follows:
Mon. - L. 50
Tues. - L. 51, due Thursday
Wed. - Friday - no homework

December 6-10, 2010

The seventh grade assignments for the week are as follows:
Mon. - L. 36
Tues. - L. 37 odds
Wed. - no homework
Thurs. - L. 39
Fri. - no homework

Eighth grade assignments:
Mon. - L. 47
Tues. - L. 48
Wed. - L. 49, due Friday
Thurs. - PRETEST in class; no additional homework
Fri. - TEST; no homework