We finished our station rotations today. Homework depends on the individual and the choices they made & speed at which they work.

Monday is quiz day!

6th grade: LCM,GCF

7th grade: tax, tip, markup, discount, simple interest.

Today we continued our stations. Students only have homework if they needed to finish up a few things at a particular station.

Monday’s Quiz:

6th grade has a quiz on Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple.

7th grade has a quiz on Tax, Tip, Discount, Markup and Simple Interest.

Reminder: NWEA Testing will occur next Tuesday through Friday.

Today we did math stations in 6th and 7th grade, so each student only has to finish what they didn’t in class. No extra work. We only did two stations today and will continue Thursday and Friday.

The following students are coming to tomorrow’s tournament:

Kaeden Bryer, Sydney Rosbury, Abdu Hijazi, Hussein Hussein, Malak Elayyan, Hussein Issa, Zeynab Beydoun, Haneen Alouie, Katrina Elakkari, Mohamed Saleh, Ali Kassem, Ali Hamadeh, Aline Hajj Hussein, Safa Hijazi, Sarina Thouraya, Fatima Barakat, Leila Kassem, Adam Farhat, Vicky Wan, Hussein Farhat, Isabella Nordini

We will return to school between 4:45 and 5:00

6th graders completed a writing assignment in class comparing surface area and volume. We also reviewed multiplying decimals on the backside.  Some students need to finish this at home, while others finished in class.

7th graders should have only a few simple interest problems for homework, if any!

*Make sure you are caught up on IXL!

6th graders are working on algebraic expression vocabulary. Their homework is IXL Variables in Google Classroom.  Please finish any missing IXL’s before I grade them!

7th graders are learning about simple interest. Homework is “Intermediate Equations” in Google Classroom.

Updates for Academic Games  *Please note time changes!

The following dates are the remainder of our schedule:

• Tuesday, Jan 5 3-4pm
• Wednesday, Jan 6 1:45-4:45 Tournament 4
• Thursday, Jan 7 @7 am
• Tuesday, Jan 12 3-4pm
• Wednesday, Jan 13 1:45-4:45 Tournament 5
• Thursday, Jan 14 @7am
• Super Tournament Tuesday, Jan 19 & Wednesday, Jan 20  1:45-4:45pm
• End of Season Celebration Tuesday, Jan 26 3-3:45  ALL players are welcome. We will eat some sweet snacks and receive certificates or recognition.

To participate in the Super Tournament, YOU MUST BE SELECTED. I can only bring 21 students.

You must play on BOTH DAYS!

Dear parents and students,

For the last few months I have been trying to make the adjustment to middle school easy on families by not giving credit for IXL.  I wanted the students to take responsibility for themselves and complete assignments that were indirectly affecting grades.  As a result, the same students are doing all of their work while others are doing none of it. I would like to reward those great students with some points, while giving the others a chance to complete the missing IXL skills.

I have decided to begin to offer credit for CERTAIN IXL assignments because of skill importance and accountability.  Many of our students are dong the right thing and holding themselves accountable.  Other students, however, are not completing their IXL and expecting to be able to take quiz retakes on skills they never begun, let alone completed.  I will continue to offer laptop use before and after school in my room.  (You will not be allowed to complete IXL in my room during electives if you have been kicked out of art class for misbehaving. )

If a skill is assigned as a review assignment for a test, I will be counting it for credit. It must be completed to be eligible for a retake.

All assignments are worth 4 points based on completion, not correctness.  Homework is for practice, not expected to be perfect. As always, my grade book is transparent and updated daily, as is my blog.  I will continue to post IXL assignments in Google classroom and on my blog for parents to be aware.  As a parent, you can ask your student to see their IXL practice by logging on in front of you and looking at their sores for each skill. It requires a student to login after 20 questions in case they forget. This way they cannot tell you they did their work and just “forgot” to log in.

Thank you in advance for helping me hold students accountable for their learning,

Ms. Bissonette

6th & 7th graders had the entire class period to graph ordered pairs in four quadrants. Some will need to finish this over break.

6th graders are working on order of operations using exponents. The homework is in Google classroom, p.68 (1-12). Most students completed this after they finished the common assessment.

7th graders are working on percent applications. We completed the worksheet, “Markup, Discount, and Tax” in class unless we wasted time or chose not to work.  Only a few students need to finish this at home.