8th Grade Information (Feb. 1-5)

Please join us for Buddy Lunch on Monday from 11:30-12:30.

Math-a-thon Funbooks go home Monday for the St. Jude Math-a-thon.  Has your son/daughter signed on to help?  It’s a great cause and we have all new Funbooks this year that are full color, published by Scholastic.

Remember to turn in permission slips (due Wed.) for the February 23rd trip to Circa 21.  Middle school students will attend morning workshops on different aspects of drama, enjoy a buffet lunch, and see a performance of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”.

Please send in activity/coloring books, matchbox cars, and other small toys for a collection we are sending to Iowa City for young visitors at the Veteran’s Hospital there.

Catholic Schools Week mass at Assumption High School on Friday, February 5 at 10:00 a.m. for Grades 3-8.

8th Grade Math (Feb. 1-5)

Happy Catholic Schools Week!  It’s a great week of celebration and service here at Lourdes.  Please join us for some of the activities listed on the flyer that went home.

Most of our focus on 8th grade math this week will be on finding the surface area and volume of cylinders.  At the end of the week, we will move on to slope of a line.

Monday:  Finish Unit 4 Test/ Mayor Proclaims Catholic Schools Week in Bettendorf
No assignment.

Tuesday:  Surface Area of Cylinders
Do p. 325 (1-8)

Wednesday:  Surface Area and Volume
Do p. 326-327 (10-14,20-26)

Thursday:  Building a Ramp
Do p. 329 (1-13)

Friday:  Slopes and Equations of Lines
Do p. 338-339 (1-11)

7th Grade Math (Feb. 1-5)

Happy Catholic Schools Week!  St. Jude’s Math-a-thon Funbooks go home on Monday.  Has your 7th grader signed on to help out?  It’s a very worthwhile cause, and I encourage their participation.

Most of our math efforts this week will relate to finding percents.

Monday:  Box and Whisker Plots
Do p. 340-341 (16-27)

Tuesday:  You Be the Critic/ Estimating Percents
Do p. 353 (1-7)

Wednesday:  Finding Percents
Do p. 353 (8-14)

Thursday:  Finding Parts or Wholes
Do p. 354-355 (15-21, 23, 27-35)

Friday:  Mass at Assumption High School

6th Grade Math (Feb. 1-5)

Happy Catholic Schools Week!  It’s a week of fun and exciting events that takes us out of our normal routine, but we will squeeze in as much math as we can 😉

Most of our focus this week will be on adding and subtracting mixed numbers, which will also include working on renaming fractions.

Monday:  Finish Unit 5 Quiz/A Weighty Question
After finishing the quiz, we will work together to solve the problem on p. 340.  No assignment.

Tuesday:  Adding Mixed Numbers
Do p. 348 (1-12, 14)

Wednesday:  Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Do p. 348-350 (15-25, 27-28, 32-40)

Thursday:  An Exhibit of Everyday Objects/Extra Skill Practice
Do p. 352 (1-27, 1-2)

Friday:  Customary Units of Capacity
Memorize your conversions for oz., cups, pints, quarts, gallons.
Do p. 359 (1-12)

6th grade notebooks due Tuesday, February 2.

8th Grade Information (Jan. 25-29)

8A leads the mass on Wednesday at 8:40 a.m.

The 8th Grade Healthy Food Sale has been re-scheduled for Thursday, January 28 in Mrs. Gordon’s room.

Don’t forget to return you permission slip to participate in the St. Jude’s Math-a-thon!

8th Grade Math (Jan. 25-29)

8th graders will spend one more day polishing their skills on geometric probability and multi-stage experiments.  Then they will then move on to the chapter review and the Unit 4 Test.  We will start Unit 5 on Friday, with a lesson on surface area of cylinders.

Please encourage your 8th grader to take part in the St. Jude’s Math-a-thon.  It allows them to polish up their math skills at the same time they contribute to a very worthy cause.  Permission slips go home this week.  Students work on math-a-thon problems at home during Catholic Schools Week.

Monday:  More on Geometric Probability and Multi-stage Experiments
Do worksheet.

Tuesday:  Review & Assessment
Do p. 314-315 (1-29)

Wednesday:  Unit 4 Test
No assignment.

Thursday:  Finish Unit 4 Test
No assignment.

Friday:  Surface Area of Cylinders
Do p. 325 (1-8)

8th Grade Notebooks due Thursday, January 28

7th Grade Math (Jan. 25-29)

We will pick up a couple of lessons that we weren’t able to get to last week, due to ice.  Students will experience a variety of math concepts this week, and build related skills.  Most of them are enthusiastic about Stem and Leaf Plots…we will start the week with those.  Then we move on two different types of graphs:  histograms and scatter plots.  7th graders will be challenged with a project on Wednesday.  They are expected to plan a Zoo Tour that meets several requirements.  We will also do a lesson on Cross Products.

Please encourage your 7th grader to take part in the St. Jude’s Math-a-thon.  It allows them to polish up their math skills at the same time they contribute to a very worthy cause.  Permission slips go home this week.  Students work on math-a-thon problems at home during Catholic Schools Week.

Monday:  Stem and Leaf Plots
Do p. 322-323 (14-16)

Tuesday:  Histograms
Do p. 323-324 (17-18a, 19-30)

Wednesday:  What’s For Lunch
Each student plans a 3 1/2 hour zoo tour that meets several requirements.  Due Friday.

Thursday:  Cross Products
Do p. 337-338 (1-10)

Friday:  Scatter Plots
Do p. 338-339 (12-15)

7A Notebooks due Tuesday, January 26
7B Notebooks due Wednesday, January 27

6th Grade Math (Jan.25-29)

Because of our very abbreviated schedule last week, due to ice, some of the math this week is re-cycled from last week’s plans.  During the first part of the week, we will be working on lessons related to measurement.  Toward the end of the week, we will be reviewing adding and subtracting fractions.  Students will take the Unit 5 Quiz on Friday.

Our project during Unit 5 involves putting together “An Exhibit of Everyday Objects”.  Since we are midway through the unit, it is time for students to decide on the object that they will be exhibiting.  It should be an item they see or use daily that has been beautifully designed.  On Wednesday, they will be making a sketch of their object and labeling the length, width, and height of the item.

Please encourage your 6th grader to take part in the St. Jude’s Math-a-thon.  It allows them to polish up their math skills at the same time they contribute to a very worthy cause.  Permission slips go home this week.  Students work on math-a-thon problems at home during Catholic Schools Week.

Monday:  Investigating Benchmarks
Do p. 328 (1-13)

Tuesday:  Converting Customary Units of Length
Do p. 328-329 (14-32)

Wednesday:  An Exhibit of Everyday Objects/Extra Skill Practice
Do p. 331 (1-25)

Thursday:  Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Do p. 337-338 (1-12, 14-15)

Friday:  Unit 5 Quiz
No assignment.

6th Grade Notebooks due Tuesday, February 2

8th Grade Information (Jan. 19-22)

Due to school cancellation on Wed./Thurs. due to ice, the 8th grade Healthy Food Sale has been re-scheduled to Thursday, January 28.

Don’t forget the 8th Grade Overnight Confirmation Retreat.  It goes from 3:00 p.m. Saturday until after 10:30 a.m. mass on Sunday.

8th grade guest speaker on Tuesday:  “Let’s Chat About Chew” in the Library at 2:00 p.m..

8th Grade Math (Jan. 19-22)

This week, 8th graders put the finishing touches on Unit 4.  We will spend much of the week an Geometric Probability and Multi-stage Experiements.  Both are rather complex concepts, so we are devoting a bit of extra time to them so the students will have more success with mastering them.  Plan on the Unit 4 Test next Monday and Tuesday.

Tuesday:  Geometric Probability
Do p. 309 (1-5)

Wednesday:  No School; Ice

Thursday:  No School; Ice

Friday:  Multi-Stage Experiements
Do p. 309-310 (6-11)

Monday:  More on Geometric Probability and Multi-Stage Experiments
Do a Worksheet for extra practice.

Tuesday:  Review & Assessment
Do p. 314-315 (1-29)

Unit 4 Test next Wed./Thurs. (Jan. 27, 28))

8th Grade Notebook Check-Thursday, January 28