Needs

For both classes I am in need of Kleenex. Allergies are upon us and I am on my last box! Please consider sending some in with your student.

7th Grade Mathematics

We are finishing the first lesson of the year. We will be doing a review and taking our first quiz tomorrow! Students should be finishing their packets tonight for homework. I will be collecting them as soon as we are done checking homework tomorrow. The schedule for this week:

• Monday- Finish Lesson 1- Homework-Finish packet
• Tuesday-Review and Quiz
• Wednesday- Begin Lesson 2 (Subtraction of Negative and Positive Integers). Homework pages 11-12.
• Thursday- Lesson 2 day 2 – Homework pages 13-14
• Friday – Lesson 2 Day 3 – Homework pages 15-16. (There will be a Lesson 2 Quiz on Monday or Tuesday the following week.)
• Khan Academy minutes are due Friday!

Computer Applications

We are continuing to learn how to format with Microsoft Word. Students are receiving approximately 3 assignments per week and those assignments need to be submitted by Friday each week.

Questions?

As always if you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me and I will get back to you as soon as I am able!

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

I hope everyone enjoyed Labor Day! Here is a look at what is happening this week. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me and I will get back to you as soon as I am able.

7th Grade Math

We are taking the NWEA assessment. This will help me understand each student’s level coming into the new school year. We will take as long as necessary to allow students to finish the assessment. After the assessment, I will help each student login to Khan Academy so I can begin to gather information about summer learning hours for all previous Dearborn students. Those hours are due by September 20.

A note is being sent home to every student with login information about Class Dojo. I am going to utilize this site in place of Remind this year and will be adding information more frequently than on the blog. Please be sure to get logged in as soon as possible!

Computer Applications

This week we are getting logged into Google Classroom and working with the basics of Microsoft Word. They will also be working on basic keyboarding skills along with the Word program.

I am so excited to continue working with some of the same students as last year! I have moved to the 7th grade math classroom. Along with that course, I am also teaching computer applications. I will give a further rundown of each course and send home a syllabus and supply list this week. In order to communicate more easily with parents I am also planning on utilizing Class Dojo. I look forward to working with all of my new classes this year! If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns and I will respond as soon as I can.

7th Grade Math

We are going to continue using the curriculum we started using last year (Ready Common Core). The format of the course will be similar in that 80% of student grades will be based on Summative Assessments (quizzes, tests) and 20% will be based on Formative Assignments (bellwork, classwork, homework, etc.)

Computer Applications

This course will focus on learning Applications in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). There will not be homework in this course as long as students use their time wisely. Grades will rely heavily on tests, quizzes, and other projects. Along with these scores, students will receive up to 5 participation points daily. If students choose not to work or follow expectations they will lose these points. If a student loses all points in a class period, parents will be contacted, and a consequence will take place.

Hello everyone! I just wanted to be sure that everyone received the assignment for summer break. Just as students were expected to complete Khan Academy summer hours last year, they are expected to do the same this year. The expectation is 1 hour per week, totaling 8 summer hours. If students make the choice, they can complete this in larger chunks of time or divide it up to do a little each day.

Thank you to all of you for your continued support this year! I can’t wait to see you all in the fall! Enjoy your summer!

Thank you,

Mrs. Osak

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying the extended weekend and holiday if you are celebrating. I wanted to go over a few things and give you an idea of what we will be doing in class as we finish out the school year.

Thursday – Lesson 19 continues. Notes in class in our Ready Textbook. Homework will be assigned as well. We will also be going over ISN’s (Interactive Student Notebooks) one more time to make sure everyone has what they need.

Friday – ISN Collection Students should have notebooks complete and up to date. This is a summative score. We will be finishing up Lesson 19 with reviewing the practice quiz. Depending on time, the quiz will either take place today or on Monday.

Monday – Ready book collection. I will be collecting and keeping the Ready materials. This will also be a note taking grade for the students as well. As far as classwork goes, if students have not completed the quiz or turned in lessons 18 and 19 homework this will be the last day to turn it in.

Tuesday – Skating field trip

Wednesday – Wrap up the details.  Extra Credit opportunity?

Thursday – Levagood field trip

Friday – 1/2 day Wrap up the details.

As always if you have any questions please feel free to email me. I will get back to you as soon as I am able.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

Today we finished up on NWEA in the classrooms for students that needed the time. If a student has yet to complete NWEA they will do so next week.

All students were asked to review Lesson 18 in their books from pages 178-181 during class today. Pages 182-183 will be extra credit. If students were able to finish this during class, they checked their answers and were given time to work on the homework packet for Lesson 18. We will be checking these when we come back from break on Tuesday. I also informed students that they needed to try to get as much done from Lesson 18 in the packet as they can because we will be going over it (some of this will be extra credit as well) and moving straight into Lesson 19. If these things were not completed in class your student should complete them for homework. I will post copies on Google classroom for students to access if they left their book or work at school.

Students were also sent home with a progress report to be signed and returned to me on Tuesday. Please be sure to take a look at this and review the attached note with your student.

As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me and I will get back to you as soon as I am able.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

This week we have been working on Lesson 17 which is focused on Equivalent Expressions. I handed back quizzes and spent one class period going over a new retake procedure that students will follow for the rest of the year. Students that have quizzes to retake should have scheduled with me a time to complete the retake. I have given my lunchtime and some after school availability as options to the students.

Here is what this week has looked like:

• Monday: homework- pg 183-184 (in packet)
• Tuesday: Blocks 1 and 2 no homework- (retake day), Block 3 homework- pg 185-186
• Wednesday: Blocks 1 and 2 homework-pg. 185-186, Block 3 no homework- (retake day)
• Thursday: homework- pg 187-190 (we covered two sections and they had time to complete in class)
• Friday: homework- pg 191-192 (finish packet) and study guide.

Next week at a glance:

• Monday: Lesson 17 Review/Quiz
• Tuesday: NWEA
• Wednesday: NWEA
• Thursday: Begin Lesson 18

Students can always spend any extra time available on Khan Academy or on IXL to sharpen their math skills (especially with the NWEA coming up). I will be putting in grades this weekend or early next week. All students will have a progress report sent home to be signed.

If you have any further questions or concerns feel free to email me and I will get back to you as soon as I am able.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

Last week was spent finishing up with M-Step prep and taking the actual M-Step assessment. I was very impressed with the students in my room and the way they were showing their work to solve questions. I am sure that most of the students showed this same work ethic and I am proud of them for really giving the effort needed to be successful.

This week we are back on track with Lesson 16. Homework this week will go as follows.

Monday- pg. 175-176 (pgs. 173-174 were also homework if not completed prior to this week.)

Tuesday-pg. 177-178

Wednesday-pg. 179-180

Thursday-Study Guide

Friday- Lesson 16 Quiz

Students will be taking the NWEA assessment very soon. If they do not have homework, or if they have the time, putting them on Khan Academy or on their IXL site will benefit them greatly. Those sites level learning to where your child’s levels are and give them recommendations based off of that data.

As always, please feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

This week we focused on looking at some sample problems that are closely related to what we will see on the M-Step test next week. I wanted to give students the opportunity (even if it is only for a minute) to see concepts that we will get to later in the year. They have been working hard in class this week and as a result have not had homework (until today). I am now going to ease back from test prep (only doing a few problems each day) and get back to content. Students have homework tonight. They will need to complete pgs. 171-172 in the packet sent home today. We are focusing on creating equations (expressions) based on word phrases. They will also need to be able to evaluate the expression given the value.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education,

Mrs. Osak

We are in the final stretch of 6th grade here at Bryant! Since our arrival back at school we have focused on exponents and the order of operations. We wrapped up lesson 15 today. Students should be bringing home a practice quiz to be completed tonight. We will review the answers before taking the Lesson 15 Quiz tomorrow! If your student still struggles, please have them go into Khan Academy and review with some of the videos there. Your child can also login to IXL ( a new program being paid for by the school) and do practice problems on order of operations and exponents. To find these sections on IXL students go to learning and then find D.2 (for Exponent practice) and O.11 (for order of operations).

Our next lesson is going to be the start of algebraic equations if you want your student to get a head start.

Please feel free to email me anytime with questions. I will reply as soon as I can.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs. Osak