Grades have been entered for Week 5 assignments (week of 5/18), as well as for late work from previous weeks (up through what I had today). If you choose to catch up on anything from a previous week or choose to improve any of your scores this week, please email me to let me know so I can update your grade, otherwise I won’t know you completed it…I don’t get a notification from IXL or Khan.

ASSIGNMENTS

This week we are working on area of circles. I highly recommend you begin with the Khan Academy work for this week first. You will see that I assigned two videos, two articles, and 2 practice exercises in Khan Academy, however I suggest you complete them in the order I listed below. You will notice that one of the articles and one video talks a little bit about circumference. Certainly, the information is worth listening to and reading about, however you will not have to work on any circumference problems this week…you don’t have to answer the circumference examples in the article either. Before you start the first IXL problem, you probably want to click the part where it says “Learn With an Example” which will show right above the problem, but below the light blue bar that tells the name of the skill you are working on. You will definitely want to be sure you have a calculator with you when you do all of your work in Khan Academy or IXL this week, or use the online calculator that I shared a link to in Google Classroom. 

Assignments are due THIS FRIDAY, May 29.

The KHAN ASSIGNMENTS are:
* Video: Labeling Parts of a Circle
* Article: Radius, Diameter & Circumference
* Exercise: Radius and Diameter
* Video: Area of a Circle
* Article: Area of Circles Review
* Exercise: Area of a Circle

The IXL ASSIGNMENT is:
7th grade skill  * AA5 (Area of Circles)

VIDEO CHAT/CHECK-IN FOR THIS WEEK

As of now, I have not scheduled a video chat session for this week. If something changes, I will post to the blog and post in Google Classroom.

QUESTIONS?

As always, feel free to email me with any questions and I will respond as soon as possible.

Have a great week!

Grades will be entered today and tomorrow for Week 4 assignments (week of 5/11), as well as for late work from previous weeks (up through what I have today). If you have caught up on anything from a previous week or choose to improve any of your scores, please email me to let me know so I can update your grade, otherwise I won’t know you completed it…I don’t get a notification from IXL or Khan.

ASSIGNMENTS

This week we are working on inequalities- choosing solutions to inequalities, writing inequalities from seeing a graph, and solving one-step inequalities. Again, in 6th grade you did work with inequalities, probably only using greater than (>) and less than (<) symbols and most likely without negative numbers. In Google Classroom I have uploaded a resource that shows you the symbols we use for inequalities and what each of them means, as well as the “rules” for inequalities. Also, I shared the link to Mr. Suni’s blog because he created a good video with examples for each of the assigned IXL skills, so you can click the link for the video under his 1st/2nd hour. 

Assignments are due THIS FRIDAY, May 22.

No KHAN ASSIGNMENTS this week. 

The IXL ASSIGNMENTS are:
7th grade skill  * T1 (Solutions to Inequalities)
7th grade skill  * T3 (Write Inequalities from Number Lines)
7th grade skill  * T4 (Solve One-step Inequalities)

VIDEO CHAT/CHECK-IN FOR THIS WEEK

As of now, I have not scheduled a video chat session for this week. If something changes, I will post to the blog and post in Google Classroom.

QUESTIONS?

As always, feel free to email me with any questions and I will respond as soon as possible.

Have a great week! Eid Mubarak to those that will celebrate this weekend!

Grades will be entered today and tomorrow for Week 3 assignments (week of 5/4), as well as for late work from previous weeks (up through what I have today). If you completed work and see that you didn’t earn full points, it is most likely that you did not earn the highest score for the skill in Khan or IXL OR you are missing one or more of the skills. If you choose to improve any of your scores or get caught up on anything from a previous week, please email me to let me know when you are finished with something so I can update your grade.

ASSIGNMENTS

This week we are working on combining like terms to create equivalent expressions and also to solve equations. This is something you did in 6th grade, but without negative numbers. Also, I had assigned some Khan practice on these topics back in March. Assignments are due THIS FRIDAY, May 15.

The KHAN ASSIGNMENTS are:
* Video: Intro to Combining Like Terms
* Video: Simplifying expressions
* Exercise: Combining Like Terms with Negative Coefficients

The IXL ASSIGNMENTS are:
6th grade skill  * Z10 (Solve equations involving like terms)
7th grade skill  * R14 (Add and subtract linear expressions)
7th grade skill  * R New! (Identify equivalent linear expressions using algebra tiles) – This skill is listed UNDER R16.

VIDEO CHAT/CHECK-IN FOR THIS WEEK

As of now, I have not scheduled a video chat session for this week. If something changes, I will post to the blog and post in Google Classroom.

QUESTIONS?

As always, feel free to email me with any questions and I will respond as soon as possible. 

Grades will be updated today for last week’s assignments, as well as grades for late work from previous weeks (as of yesterday). If you completed work and see that you didn’t earn full points, it is most likely that you did not earn the highest score for the skill in Khan or IXL OR you are missing one or more of the skills. If you choose to improve any of your scores or get caught up on anything from a previous week, please email me to let me know when you are finished with something so I can update your grade.

SOME THINGS TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION

• The list of skills/videos that I have assigned in Khan Academy is growing. Only about 8-10 tasks are shown on the page at a time, so be sure to scroll down near the bottom of the list to click “Next” to see more. I believe some of you just did what was shown on the main page and thought you were caught up….you didn’t realize you should check for a second page or third page. Refer to each blog post for the names of all the skills/videos assigned each week!
• Many kids are skipping the videos in Khan. I’m not sure why, as they should be helpful and are usually very short. For those of you that are scoring low on the practice skills, it is probably due to the fact that you skipped the video(s). Go back, watch the video(s), then retry the skill.
• Some kids are only watching videos I assigned and not doing the practice skills. Perhaps you thought you would watch videos one day and do the skills another day and just forgot, but you need to go back to finish the skills.
• In IXL, some of you are doing just the 7th grade skills or just the 6th grade skills…I have been giving you a mix of skills from each grade. Refer to each blog post for the names of the skills assigned each week and which grade they are under!

ASSIGNMENTS

We are working on 1-step equations word problems this week and reviewing two-step equations. Assignments are due THIS FRIDAY, May 8.

The KHAN ASSIGNMENTS are:
* Video:  Modeling with one-step equations
* Exercise: Translate one-step equations and solve

The IXL ASSIGNMENTS are:
6th grade skills  * Z8 and Z9 (Solve one-step equations: word problems; Solve two-step equations)
7th grade skill  * S7 (Solve equations: word problems)

Points earned for each skill is based on IXL smart score or Khan Academy percent:
75 – 100 = 5 pts
60 – 74 = 4 pts
40 – 59 = 3 pts
1 – 39 = 1 pt
0 = 0

VIDEO CHAT/CHECK-IN FOR THIS WEEK

As of now, I have not scheduled a video chat session for this week. If something changes, I will post to the blog and post in Google Classroom.

QUESTIONS?

As always, feel free to email me with any questions and I will respond as soon as possible.