It's the weekend! Hooray!
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Teachers are just big kids at heart too and love their free time and chillaxin'! Speaking for myself, I try to avoid homework on Fridays. Speaking of homework, you shouldn't have any... If you find yourself behind: 1) you were have technology issues 2) found other things to do 3)need help but didn't bother me enough in TEAMS text 4) who knows but the dog ate your homework trick won't work.
I am focused on teaching you what we need to know for the day quickly to understand it and give you time to practice on your own or ask for help. You are now blessed with time. Use it well and if you need more coaching on something, put me to work and make me earn my teacher dollars. I don't intend for you to have work to do after the class block has ended. Please use the time to get caught up and it should be easy to stay caught up after this to stay that way.
3 day Recap
HOMEROOM 16-18th
We talked about using the technology you have in your school Office to help you plan your day. This isn't a school thing, this is more of a LIFE kinda thing. All successful people and professionals of their craft plan ahead, get to things on time and ready for what's next. Today we showed you how to create your weekly school schedule for the rest of the year in the Calendar app. Your task: Create your school schedule. You can use the August 30th blog posting for a look at your schedule to help you.
**I also posted a blog about how to do this with Google Calendar which is very similar to Microsoft Calendar, in March or April. Use the table of contents on the right to help you get there faster for an example.
Wednesday was the day to get this done, so if you haven't done so, be sure to turn something into your homeroom teacher before Monday.
Thursday we did more breakout rooms from Tuesday except with the 8th grade hosting. I was very impressed with how quickly you picked up on this idea and how helpful you were with each other. See the blog from Tuesday to see the assignment.
Friday we focused on being able to upload an assignment and your fellow peers took the reigns and shared what they know. I also have a March or April blog post on this using Paint 3D the way it was showed today to upload assignments. As long as you know where to click in Unified to submit your work the old blog will work for you!
MATH
We are noticing things we NEED to know before we can tackle the NEW grade level stuff and be successful.
7th Grade we focused on getting caught up in our IXL work and gave extra coaching after class.
Your tasks:
1) IXL- 5th Grade U.1 Writing variable expressions
2) IXL- 7th Grade S.6 Solving two-step equations
3) IXL- 7th Grade S.2 Writing equations from words
8th Grade is almost the same except we are working with grids so your 1st task is the only one that is different from 7th grade.
Your first skill was 3rd Grade U.1 Reading Grid Points
Wednesday was a chance to work on those skills above
Thursday was giving you more support, letting you know what to work on, checking in on you to see if you understood or needed help and another day to get these done.
Friday- if you don't have those assignments done yet you need to be done by Monday or you are behind and the NEW grade level math will be hard to understand. Please use the weekend to get caught up.
**While helping students on NEED skill 7th Grade S.6, we came across a few trickier questions.
1) U + 51/3 = -6 (in this one you solve the division of 51/3 first, this one is more of 3-step equation)
2) G/4 - (-43) = 52 (need skill coming up, working with addition, subtraction and negative numbers)
3) 81 = 9(g +6) (this one requires prior knowledge of the distributive property, need skill coming up)
4) U-37/ (-8) = -7 (this one caught Ol' Mr. Lew off guard!, this seems like an order of operations kind of thing, PEMDAS anyone?!)
FEAR NOT! TOGETHER, WE CAN DO ANYTHING! These Rum Raisin like questions will soon become your common easy breezy scoop of vanilla, scoop of chocolate/don't waste my time kind of questions before you know it! Maybe they already are and your fellow classmates would LOVE to pick your brain about it!
SCIENCE
Wednesday log into your Moby Max and Big History Project account and be ready for Tuesday.
Friday log into your Moby Max and Big History Project account with proof by sharing your screen and then have an early start, have an A+ on your assignment for doing that and then have a nice early start to your weekend.
If you are having trouble with passwords, we will iron this out on Tuesday.
Go be you and enjoy your weekend! If you aren't caught up, try to set a timer and commit to working 30 minutes at a time and you will get there.
Until next time... See ya!
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