Battle of the Books begins this week.
Rehearsal for Confirmation will be on Wednesday, April 28 at 6:00 p.m.
8th grade students are to be in the Lourdes gym with their sponsor at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday evening, April 29. The Confirmation mass begins at 6:30 p.m.
8th grade students will continue to work on Multi-Step Equations. We will spend a day reviewing for the Diocesan Assessment Tests, which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. (That way the students will not have homework on Wednesday evening when they have Confirmation Practice, and on Thursday evening, the night of Confirmation.) On Friday, any absent students will finish the Diocesan Assessment Test, and the rest of the class will move on to Exponential Change. Plan on the Unit 7 Quiz about mid-week next week.
Monday: More Multi-Step Equations
Do p. 496 (5-33, odd)
Tuesday: Review Day for Diocesan Assessment Test
No assignment. Get a good night’s rest.
Wednesday: Diocesan Assessment Test
No assignment.
Thursday: Finish Diocesan Assessment Test
No assignment.
Friday: Exponential Change
Do p. 505 (3)
7th grade students will be doing lots of work with graphing this week. They will be working with Box and Whisker Plots, Circle Graphs, and reviewing Stem and Leaf Plots, Bar Graphs, and Line Plots. The Unit 7 Quiz takes place on Tuesday, and we begin next week working with Quadrilaterals.
Monday: Making Box and Whisker Plots
Do p. 496-497 (20, 23-32)
Tuesday: Unit 7 Quiz
No assignment.
Wednesday: Finish Unit 7 Quiz
No assignment.
Thursday: Circle Graphs
Do p. 507-508 (1-11)
Friday: Choosing a Graph
Do p. 508 (12-14, 17-26) using Labsheet 4A
Monday: Quadrilaterals
Do p. 519 (1-9)
Circles are the name of the game this week, so pi will be involved in many of the lessons. Toward the end of the week, we will do some work with integers and graphing on a coordinate plane.
Monday: Distance Around a Circle (Circumference)
Do p. 494-495 (8-16, 19-27)
Tuesday: Area of a Circle
Do p. 505 (1-12)
Wednesday: Volume of a Cylinder
Do p. 506 (14-20, 23-33)
Thursday: Temperature and Integers
Do p. 517-518 (1-19, 23)
Friday: Graphing Ordered Pairs
Do p. 518-519 (24-26, 28-34)
Plan on the Unit 7 Test next Tuesday/Wednesday. After that, your Travel Poster will be due, so start working on it now! Remember, you have to present 4 places you would like to visit. Show a picture of your destinations and tell us why you want to go there. Present some mathematical facts about the places you choose.
Please join us for mass at 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday for the school mass. 8B is leading the mass and presenting a skit on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The Spring Music Program is on Thursday, April 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Marie Frye Scholarship applications are due by May 3. Assumption Scholarship applications are due by May 7.
Best wishes to our 2nd Grade Buddies as they make their First Communion on April 24 and 25.
8th graders are finishing their Unit 6 Test on Monday. Then we will begin a unit that is quite heavy in algebra concepts. I’d like to get through the first half of this unit before the students take the Diocesan Assessment Test, which must be completed by May 1.
Monday: Finish Unit 6 Test
No assignment.
Tuesday: FUNctions
Do p. 478-479 (10-19, 21-23, 25, 28)
Wednesday: Linear Change
Do p. 491-492 (1-5)
Thursday: Multi-Step Equations
Do p. 493-494 (19-26, 32-40)
Friday: Simplifying Expressions
Do p. 496 (5-33, odd problems only)
After spending most of last week on different types of graphs, this week’s math topics will be more varied. We’ll be working with percents as we investigate our resting and active heart rates. Those percents will help us identify our target heart rate, as well. We will also review customary units of capacity (Tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons) and inequalities as we explore information on fat, carbohydrates, and protein.
7A Math is currently a day behind 7B. Their Monday assignment is…
7A Monday: Misleading Graphs
Do p. 467 (21, 23-32)
Hopefully, we can get the 2 classes back on the same schedule soon. Until then, 7A students should complete the assignment from the day listed previously.
Monday: Percent Equations
Do p. 480 (1-9)
Tuesday: Percent of Change
Do p. 480-482 (10-22, 25-32)
Wednesday: Spring Music Program Practice
Thursday: Customary Capacity and Inequalities
Do p. 494-495 (1-8)
Friday: Solving Inequalities
Do p.495-496 (9-19)
Monday: Making Box and Whisker Plots
Do p. 496-497 (20, 23-32)
Plan on the Unit 7 Quiz early next week.
I’ve heard from some of the 6th graders that they are enjoying this unit! Finding areas of different polygons is easy, once you understand the formula to use. On Tuesday of this week, 6th graders will take the Unit 7 Quiz. Then we will move on to finding circumference and area of a circle.
Monday: Review Day for Unit 7 Quiz
Do p. 486 (1-27 and Free Response)
Tuesday: Unit 7 Quiz
No assignment.
Wednesday: Spring Music Program Practice
Thursday: Parts of a Circle
Do p. 494 (1-7, using Labsheet 4A)
Friday: Distance Around a Circle (Circumference)
Do p. 494-495 (8-16, 19-27)
Monday: Area of a Circle
Do p. 505 (1-12)
Healthy Food Sale is in Mrs. Walsh’s room on Thurs., April 15 (Period 1 and 2).
Spring Band Program is Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Spring Picture Day for Grades 4-8 will be on Friday, April 16.
We will finish Unit 6 this week with a test on Wednesday/Friday. Unfortunately, we must postpone creating our model town in order to cover important topics in Unit 7 before taking the Diocesan Assessment Tests. The Diocesan Assessments must be completed before May 1, so we must be efficient with our time. I hope to allow the 8th graders time near the end of the year to make the model town.
Monday: Perimeters and Areas of Similar Figures
Do p. 459-460(9-11, 13-14, 23-33)
Tuesday: More Perimeter and Area of Similar Figures
Do Worksheet.
Wednesday: Review & Assessment
Do p. 464-465 (1-27)
Thursday: Bake Sale; No Math today.
Friday: Unit 6 Test
No assignment.
8th Grade Notebooks due Tuesday, April 20.
Marcia Walsh's Math Journal 