Monday (1/30)

• Start of Marking Period 4 (Semester 2 for elective classes)
• Checked #42, 43, 44 from last week

Tuesday/Wednesday (1/31-2/1)

• NWEA Testing

Thursday (2/2)

• Hours 0, 2, 4, 6: #45 (More word problems involving Proportional Reasoning)
• Hour 5: finished NWEA

Friday (2/3)

• Hours 0, 2, 4, 6: #46 (More word problems involving Proportional Reasoning)
• Hour 5: #45

HOMEWORK:
Finish #46 (or #45)

*February Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 2/28

Important Dates:
Monday, February 20 – 24 — Mid-Winter Break

I’ve been absent this week (Tuesday-Friday), but these are the assignments that students had time to complete in class, otherwise they were assigned as homework. Everything is more practice for our next district assessment that we will be taking mid-February!

• #42 Proportional Relationships with Equations
• #43 Proportional Relationships with Graphs
• #44 “Bryant Store” shopping (calculating percent of change with discount and sales tax)

HOMEWORK:
Finish #42-44

*January Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 1/31
(Many students have not started their Khan Academy for the month…Please don’t wait until the last day!!)

Important Dates:
Friday, Jan. 27 – 1/2 Day (End of 1st Semester)
Monday, Jan. 30 – 1/2 Day (Beginning of 2nd Semester)
Tuesday, Jan. 31 – Thursday, Feb. 2 — NWEA Testing

• More notes: Proportional Relationships
– synonyms for constant of proportionality
– how to test for proportionality

• ws #36 Proportional Relationships in tables, graphs

HOMEWORK:
Finish ws #36

*January Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 1/31

Important Dates:
Monday, Jan. 16 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday, Jan. 18 – Late Start

• Review ws#34 (hours 5,6)
• Finish Proportional Relationships foldable
• ws #35 Proportional Relationships in tables, graphs

HOMEWORK:
Finish ws #35

*January Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 1/31

Important Dates:
Monday, Jan. 16 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday, Jan. 18 – Late Start

• Review ws#34 (hours 0,2,4)
• Catch up ISN
• Proportional Relationships foldable (notes)

HOMEWORK:
Finish percent word problem (if not turned in yet)
Hours 5,6: Finish ws #34 Simple Interest

*January Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 1/31

Important Dates:
Monday, Jan. 16 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
• Reviewed classroom expectations and procedures
• Continue Percent/Percent of Change word problems
(tax, tip/gratuity, sale/discout, markup, markdown)
• Hours 0,2,4: begin ws #34 Simple Interest

HOMEWORK:
Hours 0,2,4: Finish ws #34 Simple Interest AND Percent word problem
Hours 5,6: Finish Percent word problem

*January Khan Academy minutes – 120 minutes due 1/31

Important Dates:
Monday, Jan. 16 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Wed. 12/21 and Thurs. 12/22
• District Common Assessment completed…absent students will complete their test after break

Fri. 12/23
• Create percent word problems
• PBIS Movie Reward (last 2 hours of the day)

HOMEWORK:
*December Khan Academy: 120 minutes DUE 12/31!!
Check your “Activity” under the “Progress” tab.

*January Khan Academy minutes can also be started over break beginning January 1st- 120 minutes due 1/31

Important Dates:
Monday, Dec. 26 – Friday, Jan. 6 – Winter break

HAVE A RELAXING WINTER BREAK!!
See you on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017!

• Simple Interest notes and practice
• District Common Assessment Study Guide (for 7.RP.A.1 and 7.RP.A.3)
**District Common Assessment is Wednesday, 12/21 

HOMEWORK:
Complete Study Guide and Begin STUDYING!!
Khan Academy for December: 120 minutes DUE 12/31

Important Dates:
Wednesday, Dec. 21 – Late Start
Monday, Dec. 26 – Friday, Jan. 6 – Winter break

*See you on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017!

**NO SCHOOL on Tuesday, November 8 (Election Day)!

LAST WEEK (10/31-11/4)

Number Systems Unit:
•District common assessment- due to absences, there were still a few more that needed to be completed.
•Long division review/notes
•Foldable: Terminating and Repeating Decimals
•Practice Converting Fractions to Decimals by long division AND Type of Decimal

HOMEWORK:
#20 (Practice with Terminating/Repeating Decimals) -if not done in class
#21 (Match It/Bar Notation)
#23 (More Practice with Converting Fractions)

MON. 11/7/16

Number Systems Unit:
•Converting Mixed Numbers to Decimals
•QUIZ on THURSDAY, November 10!! –  Converting fractions and mixed numbers to decimals, Terminating/Repeating Decimals – Review your notes, practice from class, and homework!  Practice on Khan Academy!

Expressions/Equations Unit:
•Foldable: 1-step and 2-step Equations

HOMEWORK:
Review for QUIZ!

Important Dates:
Wednesday, Nov. 16 – Late Start
Wed. Nov. 23- Sun. Nov. 27 – Thanksgiving break

**MONDAY…Algebra Readiness Test

•Geometry Unit: Over the last week or so students investigated the relationship between circumference and diameter/radius then solved problems about circumference.  Next they did an activity to derive the formula for finding the area of a circle, watched a video HERE, and practiced solving area problems.  Also, students continued to review using the angle relationships of complementary, supplementary (linear angles), and vertical angles to solve angle problems.

•SLOT(Bellwork): Solving and graphing Inequalities (< > ≤ ≥)

HOMEWORK:
Finish “More Practice” with Angles for next week. Angles QUIZ on Wednesday!

Important Dates:
Friday, May 27 – NO SCHOOL
Monday, May 30 – NO SCHOOL
Thursday, June 16 – Last Day of School