Congratulations!!

Congratulations to all the 8th graders! It was wonderful to see you at promotion last night. Good luck in high school next year!

I will have the quizzes from Friday graded and in the gradebook sometime tomorrow.

Thanks for a wonderful year and have a great summer vacation!!

Mrs. Anderson

Week of May 14th

This is our last week of school! I can't believe how fast the year went by. We are finishing up the book Say It With Symbols this week and we will have a final quiz on Friday.

Monday: SIWS Problem 1.4
    Homework: pg. 17 37-45 due Wednesday
Tuesday: SIWS Problem 2.1
Wednesday: SIWS Problem 2.2
    Homework: pg. 31 #17 and pg. 32 #19-24 CHOOSE 4
Thursday: Problem 2.3
Friday: Final Quiz
Note: 4th and 5th hour students have chosen this week as their "No Homework" week as their reward from their hard work on the state assessments.

Have a great week!

Week of May 7th

We took the unit test last week for Growing, Growing, Growing. I was very impressed with how well the students did on the test! This week we are taking the DMCT on Monday and Tuesday and starting a new book on Wednesday.

Monday: DMCT
Tuesday: DMCT
Wednesday: Say It With Symbols (SIWS) Problem 1.1
    Homework: pg. 12 #1,2 & pg. 15 #10 due Friday
Thursday: SIWS Problem 1.2
Friday: SIWS Problem 1.3
    Homework: pg. 15 #11, 12, 15, 16, 17 due Monday

Have a great week!

Week of April 30th

I can't believe it is already May! We are wrapping up Growing, Growing, Growing this week. Next week, on Monday and Tuesday, we will have the DMCT.

Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: Review for Unit Test - study guide is due today
Wednesday: Review for Unit Test (afternoon is Career Fair)
Thursday: Unit Test
Friday: DMCT Practice - for students that have passed the DMCT they will work on Investigation 5 in the book Growing, Growing, Growing. This is great practice with exponents!

Homework: During the week the students need to study for the unit test. Any missing work or corrections are due by 3:45pm on Friday. I would like students to complete this work before the unit test.
I will not assign homework on Friday.

Unit Test on Thursday, May 3rd

Reminder* We are taking the unit test on Thursday, May 3rd. The completed study guide is due Tuesday, May 1st. Please make sure your student completes the study guide for class that day.

Week of April 23rd

We are almost finished with Growing, Growing, Growing. We will be working on Investigation 4 this week. We have one homework assignment this week and the students will get their study guide for the unit on Wednesday. I am planning to have the unit test on May 3rd.

Monday: Problem 4.1
    Homework: pg. 53 #2, pg. 54 #4,5 & pg. 55 #8 due Wednesday
Tuesday: Problem 4.2
Wednesday: Problem 4.3
   Homework: Study Guide due Tuesday
Thursday: Problem 4.3
Friday: NO SCHOOL

**Update**

Investigation 3 is taking a little longer than I anticipated so I am moving the quiz to Friday instead of Thursday.
We will push much of Investigation 4 to next week so I am changing Friday's homework. The new assignment will be-
pg. 43 #32 & pg. 45 #43,44,45 due on Monday