Hi gang!

Im not going to be here tomorrow or Friday and I wanted to post some reminders for you!  7C All of your tasks are due tomorrow or at the beginning of the period on Friday -- it all depends on how well you work!  I posted rubrics for the algebra book project and the cell project last week on the blog, so if you want to work on it tonight and did not bring the sheets home, you can access it here. Work hard and don't forget that part of your tasks are to complete IXL!  6C must have their fraction tasks completed by the end of the class period on Thursday and hand that in to Mr. Curly.

Work hard! I'll miss you!



COW FOR WEDNESDAY - 7th grade

COW FOR THURSDAY - 7th grade

CHeck Ms. Hobby's blog for the 6th grade COw for tonight!

Hugs!
Ms. T

Mid Winter Break - But not for your mind!

7ers!  As we have so many wonderful projects ahead of us I am uploading BOTH the cell project and the algebra book project so that you can work on it over the weekend.  We will not be spending any more time on these projects in class after Wednesday so I HIGHLY URGE you to get a head start on one or both of these.  Also remember your IXL standards Y4 and V1 were due on Thursday.
Congratulations to ELLA! For beating EVERY LEVEL of MFIAF in under one minute!!

Congratulations ELLA! You NEVER have to see Math FACTS again!  That is an 8th grade standard!

Here are the links to the VERY VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS!

ALGEBRA BOOK PROJECT

CELL PROJECT

6ers...all I have to say is IXL!!!! If you didn't finish YOU MUST FINISH THIS WEEKEND. It will affect your grade if these are not done! See earlier blog posts for the standards that you must finish.

HAPPY FRACTIONS AND ALGEBRA!  And for those of you that didn't beat MFIAF,......BEAT IT! BEAT IT! BEAT IT! and then you never have to see it again!!!!!

WAY TO GO ZOE!

Wednesday Whirlies!

Hello my darlings!

Today was a crazy work day!  We had a wonderful day in both classes.  6ers got off easy because all your IXl standards are due tomorrow, but you don't have a COW that is due tomorrow.  7ers you have a COW, due tomorrow CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!

7ers you have IXl standards y4 and v1 due tomorrow.

7ers you have a wonderful list of items to finish by next week.  They are as follows:
1. The algebra standards from the passport
2. The Algebra task
3. The Algebra book project
4. The Elodea lab with conclusion questions
5. The cheek cell lab with conclusion questions
6. Coloring worksheet of the animal and plant cell
7. The parts of the cell project

HAPPY CELL AND ALGEBRA!

6ers, we'll continue working with fractions and give you a special treat for all of your hard work!

I want to give a SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SHOUT MY Advisees (and ELLA) ELIJAH AND ASA and FENN!!!!! You both have portfolio eligible pieces in ALL THREE AREAS OF HUMANITIES! GO YOU YOU ARE AMAZING! and so are all of my babies!

Hugs!
Ms. T

Tuesday toasty!

Hi 6ers and 7ers! What a great Tuesday!

Today in 7th grade we went over our COWs and what it means to meet the standard for reasoning and communication. We then spent the second half of the class period in the computer lab.  You guys have really got it going on with MFIAF! 

Here is the link to tonight's COW

our 6ers worked very hard on their fraction work, spent some time in the computer lab and had a talk about finishing ALL of their assigned homework.
6ers MUST finish their IXL standards, T7, T8, U7, U1, U3, U6 and this week's W3, X6 and X7.
This is part of your final grade, failure to do so by Thursday will cause a drop in your knowledge grade!

I don't have a copy of your 6th grade COW for tonight, so please look on Ms. Hobby's website. This can be accessed from www.atlantachartermiddle.com

See you tomorrow!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hello my wonderful students! Yes, today is Valentine's day and we had so many festive outfits, candies and treats on this wonderful day! Remember gang, this is a short week so we have to make sure we use every minute to the best of our ability.  Stay focused!  Today our 6ers had an excellent day as we compared and contrasted, using a Venn Diagram, the weathering labs -- with the pennies and slate.  You guys did an EXCELLENT job of determining the similarities and differences.  We spent the last hour continuing our Checkups for fractions and many of you felt the frustration of brain power!  The tasks are going to be challenging but we know that ALL OF YOU CAN DO IT!  It will take some hard work, thinking and dedication. But you can all do it.  Tomorrow we will continue our fraction work and start to pass out the "Pet Rock project!'

7ers had a day of 'What do you Know' Review.  We went over the parts of the cell Graphic Organizer, project to come on that -- and then spent the rest of the class period going over our Algebra assessment. The rest of this week will be spent finishing the reasoning tasks and working on our Algebraland books.  We are also going to start working on the parts of the cell project.

Here is the COW for tonight 7ers

Tuesday 6 C Cow!

Hi gang!

Today we had a magical Tuesday!  the 7th graders filled in Venn Diagrams comparing Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes and a foldable for the four parts of the cell theory,  while the 6th graders took their STAR test, practiced simplifying fractions, learned how to divide fractions and practiced their fraction work.  I will not be in school tomorrow so make sure you get everything done your checklist so we are ready for Thursday!!!

Click here for Tuesday's COW for 6C.

If you need the 7C COW I posted the entire week under Monday night's blog!

THE EXCEEDERS!

Sorry this took me so long to post! But I wanted to share with the world the WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL some of our 7C students made to illustrate the diversity of our kingdoms!

Animal Kingdom done by Ella Kasten, Asa KD, Hunter Peatman, Griffin Ramsey and Dylan McAdams

Eubacteria kingdom by Fenn Conner and Zoe Spencer!

Fungi Kingdom by Ylaysia Taylor, Domonique Henson and Atlantys Tunica-El!

Animal Kingdom! Click Above!


Waiting on the other two groups...

Monday Monday Monday!

Hi gang!!!! today was a great day, both 6C and 7C were off to great starts for the week. This week 6th grade will be working on dividing fractions, and today you wrote the conclusions for both the weathering and slate lab. Tomorrow we'll continue working on Fraction Fun and get ready to play the rock cycle game!

7th grade worked on fixing the mistakes of Ima Confused, so that we know we won't make those same mistakes again!

Below is the link for the entire week's COW so get ahead if you want!
CLICK HERE FOR 7th GRADE COWS


Remember always do the nightly COWs and this week's IXl for the 6th graders will be T7 T8 and U7!! Don't forget!

See you tomorrow!

Tuesday and Monday

Hi Gang,

6ers, continued work on fractions and you are doing a great job! Here is the link to last night's cow. This week we will continue adding and subtracting fractions and move on the multiplying fractions!

COW

Stay tuned for tonight's COW.

7ers
Yesterday we spent a great deal of time in Algebraland and you are coming along well! Today we will complete a microscope lab and then continue our work through Algebraland to lead us to the culminating project next week.  If you move fast you can start this week!

7ers here are the Cows for the week, If you notice only the front is available, You must click below to access the 2nd page of each nights COW.


THE REASONING PORTION OF THE COW

Monday Knowledge

Tuesday Knowledge

Wednesday Knowledge

Thursday Knowledge

Ok kids, see you tomorrow!

Almost Friday!

Hi gang,

a quick rundown of the day's events.

7ers: watched Magic School bus, continued mad minutes, and worked on our passports.  Our class is all over the place and we are making GREAT progress in our passports

Here are the links to this week's COWs, sorry! but the box and whisker plot was unable to be scanned in, so you have to use it from Monday's COW.

COW for TUESDAY

COW for WEDNESDAY

COW FOR THURSDAY

Tomorrow we will continue our work on one step equations and have so much fun!

6ers! We are continuing the wonderful world of fractions.  The COW is due tomorrow! Due to some technical difficulties I cannot upload our COW so I hope you took it with you!

WOOHOO!

If you need some help with fractions, adding and subtracting or just a refresher click the videos!

Marvelous Monday!

Hi gang!

Today was a WONDERFUL day in that we had such a productive day for both 6ers and 7ers.  I passed out a new COW for both classes, as the 7ers continued working on simplifying expressions.  I think we are VERY ready for our assessment.

The 6ers began talking about the different types of rocks as we participated in a station activity to introduce you to rocks, minerals and the various types on this wonderful planet earth.  We ended the class period reviewing how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators.

Here is a link to the 7th grade COW

Here is a link to the 6th grade COW

See you tomorrow!

Ms. T!

THURSDAY FUNDAY! A Passport to knowledge!

Today we started our passports in 7th grade and embarked upon the wonderful world of fractions in 6th grade!

Today the 7ers began solving equations when given a variable and continued working with simplifying expressions.  The 6ers were AMAZING at changing between improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Here is the link to tonight's COW for 6th grade

CLICK HERE FOR THE 7TH GRADE COW!

Alright kiddos, tomorrow each of you will be having a quiz
7th grade on simplifying expressions and equivalent and simplifying fractions for 6th grade!

See you tomorrow! It's Friday!

hugs!
Ms. T

Questions to comments:

For number 2, there is a 2 outside of the parentheses....so what do we do with the 2? We have to distribute it out over the entire parentheses. remember if the terms are unlike then you can't add them! Myspace and facebook are not compatible!!!!

Hope that helps!

Ms. T

Wednesday and back in action!

hi gang!

today we had a really great day! our 7ers worked on simplifying algebraic expressions and our 6ers reviewed equivalent fractions and simplifying them!

Here are links to the COW for 6th and 7th grade

7th Grade COW

6th Grade COW


And for the 6ers, if you need some help with equivalent fractions and understanding how to simplify, use the notes we took in our family OR click on this link!

EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS

SIMPLIFYING FRACTIONS


SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!! THURSDAY! WOOHOO!

RETURN AFTER THE SNOWSTORM!

Hello my darlings!

After a VERY lengthy second winter break we return!  Here is the rundown from today and the homework!

6ers
1. Today we finished our quiz on GCF and LCM
2. I gave you a BRAND new COW.  For those of you that need a refresher here is the problem for tonight,  remember you have to do the Givens, Constraints, Goal and explain why and how you eliminated the other answer choices.

Here is the COW for 6th grade
COW COW COW COW

Tomorrow 6ers we'll be starting our review of fractions and equivalent fractions! WOOHOO!

7ers
Today we discussed the associative and commutative properties to help us simplify algebraic expressions.  Tonight you have to finish the COW for homework and bring it in ready to go tomorrow.  The only way you will get the new COW is if you finish tonight's homework!

7ers here is a great link to help further explain the properties that we use to simplify algebraic expressions.  Remember, turn the entire problem into addition, put like terms together and COMBINE!!!!

CLICK HERE FOR HELP ON ASSOCIATIVE DISTRIBUTIVE AND COMMUTATIVE PROPERTIES!!!!!


See you tomorrow!! Don't forget to do your homework!!!

And practice Math Facts at home! I know Coty and Domonique are so close to mastering!!!

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!

Feliz Ano my darlings!!! It was great seeing all of your faces!

What did we do today?

Well, in 7th grade we are making sure that we are mastering the key standards in math which are:
- Translating algebraic expressions into verbal and vice versa
- Adding and subtracting  integers
- Distributive property
- Algebraic Terminology

Tomorrow we will continue working on mastering these standards, and for those of you that have mastered will work on creating a video to post on THIS VERY BLOG!!!!!! To educate the world about Kingdoms!

In 6th grade, we had a HUGE organization day, we named our pineapples and put worksheets 1-4 in them about GCF and LCM.  We organized our assessments and began working on the review of Greatest Common Factor.

Click for a tutorial of BOTH GCF and LCM

Tomorrow let's get moving on these  and both 6ers and 7ers be prepared for an assessment on the above standards on FRIDAY!

Two more days until break!

Ok Gang,

Here is the low down -

7ers
- The kingdom project is due on Friday.  Here is the rubric, but I know all of you have it!
KINGOM GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

IXL - D.2, U.1, U.2, U.3, D.1, D.4, E.1, D.3, G.7, G.8, O Graphing
This is due on FRIDAY! And remember if you didn't get a MEETING or an APPROACHING you must revise it and bring it back!

6ers
We had a talk today about ALL of the things that MUST be in by Friday, and if you choose to revise your COW, and/or your projects to make them portfolio eligible THEY MUST BE IN BY JANUARY 5th!

These are the things you MUST have done:
1. COW 13, meeting or approaching!
2. Wegener Project
3. Graphing Project
4. IXl - R - Graphing, I.1, I.2, K.2, K.2, X.1, X.2, L.2, L.3, L.5,

Let's DO THIS!

COW DAY

Hello Gang! 

Today was another fun filled day.  A new announcement.  For any of you who received a JB or NY on your COW from last week, you MUST revise that COW and hand in on Friday so it is a MEETING.

In case any of you lost the cow, with the rubric  here is the link:
CLICK HERE FOR COW

Today the 6ers took their quizzes over again, talked about what it means to have a sustainable school (let's hope your question gets picked for the town hall meeting) and reviewed the qualifications for the COW

7ers also talked about sustainability, had some time to make corrections to the Ecosystems quiz and spent some time in the computer lab.

Tomorrow get ready for a great day in MST!

Holiday wreaths and the two week countdown!

Hello my wonderful darlings!

Two more weeks until holiday break and we are going strong!  Yesterday we got back into the swing of things with a math heavy day in both classes!

6ers: We went over your assessments from Friday on prime and composite numbers and on the layers of the earth and lithospheric plates.  Today you will have a chance to bump up your grade by indicating WHY your answer was incorrect and an explanation for the correct answer.

We also played a math factor and multiple game. REMEMBER a factor is any number that can be evenly divided into another number:  Example: the factors of 12 are 1,2,3,4,6 and 12. 

A MULTIPLE on the other hand is any number multiplied by that number.  For example a multiple of 12 is 144, 36, 48, and 12.  (hint: you multiply 12 by some number to get the answer)

Today's agenda is:
1. Correct assessments, pass COWs back, finish the math game and some time in the computer lab

7ers
Yesterday we also went over our assessments with the same expectation as the 6ers.  Today you are going to correct your assessments so you can get closer to meeting the standard!
We then split up into groups to review standards that we missed, dealing with addition and subtraction of integers, algebraic expressions and absolute value. 

IXL KNOWLEDGE HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEk.

6ers:
1. L.1, L.2, L.3, L.5

7ers:
G.7, G.11

For the COW -- ANYONE who received a Just Beginning or Not yet in any area must use this week to revise and hand in your cow again so that ALL parts of the rubric meet the standard.  Otherwise you cannot move on to the next problem.