Friday, August 31, 2018. Day 4

Homeroom:

 

Grade 7 agenda:

Essential Question:

Massachusetts Standard(s):

Crosscutting Concept:

Homework:

Complete questions 1, 2, 3 and 4 (only) of the Etymology Assignment

Do Now:

Please get out your Metric Review Worksheet homework from yesterday.

Lesson:

Finish review of (back side) of homework - Metric Review Worksheet

Metric worksheet review: Class responses - answers on board

Review of homework, grading, and timeliness policy

Homework Format and Policies Handout

Greek and Latin Introduction: Etymology Assignment

Citing Common Sources - Reference

Easybib Citation Engine

Have a good weekend!

WIN:

 

 

 

Grade 8 Agenda:

Essential Question:

Massachusetts Standard(s):

Crosscutting Concept:

Homework:

Complete questions 1, 2, 3 and 4 (only) of the Etymology Assignment

 

Do Now:

Please open to your notes from yesterday and get out your motion packet.

Lesson:

15 minutes:

  • finish packet annotation.

10 minutes:

  • Class discussion of results.

Review of homework, grading, and timeliness policy

Homework Format and Policies Handout

Greek and Latin Introduction: Etymology Assignment

Citing Common Sources - Reference

Easybib Citation Engine

 

Have a good weekend!

 

 

Thursday, August 30, 2018. Day 3

Homeroom:

  • Collect Emergency Cards - 2x

Grade 8 Agenda:

Essential Question:

Crosscutting Concept:

Homework:

none.

Do Now:

  1. Get out your motion packet. Place it on the table where I can check your HW completion.

  2. Calculate the percentage of the class that are female and the percentage that are male.

  • Show your work in your science notebook.

  • Use FDSS format or label all numbers so your method is clear to me.

Lesson:

Grouping: Random numbering groups of 3 to 4

Section by section:

  • Share your questions within the group and discuss

  • Identify the main point of the section

  • define any Content vocabulary

  • identify any questions you need clarified

Whole class discussion - what you think you know and what you want to clarify

In notebook - take notes from whiteboard

 

WIN:

  • Technology Polices

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Essential Question:

Crosscutting Concept:

Homework:

none

Do Now:

get out your HW and place it on the table for me to review.

 

Lesson:

MAKE FOLDER TABS

I USE HANGING FILE FOLDERS FOR PASSING BACK WORK WHEN YOU ARE ABSENT.

THE FILING CABINET HAS A DRAWER FOR YOUR GRADE LEVEL.

NAMES ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.

MAINTAINING AND CHECKING YOUR FOLDER (AFTER AN ABSENCE) IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

MAKE TABS

YOU WILL BE GROUPED WITH FIVE PEERS EACH GROUP RECEIVES

(1) INDEX CARD

(1) PAIR OF SCISSORS

(1) RULER

(1) SAMPLE FOLDER TAB - WHICH IS TO BE RETURNED UNDAMAGED AT THE END OF THE EXERCISE

USING THESE MATERIALS, THE GROUP HAS FIVE MINUTES TO:

PRODUCE FIVE EXACT COPIES OF THE SAMPLE TAB

EACH STUDENT WRITE THEIR FIRST AND LAST NAME NEATLY ON 1 COPY OF THE TAB IN BLACK

DECORATE AS TIME PERMITS

RETURN ALL MATERIALS TO THEIR DESIGNATED SPOTS IN A NEAT AND PROFESSIONAL MANNER.

RECYCLE WASTE.

Review HW while student's work

Go over HW as a class.

 

Wednesday, August 29, 2018. Day 2

Homeroom:

  • Collect emergency cards and tech agreements

  • any lock keys or combinations?

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Homework:

Metric Review Worksheet due tomorrow.

Send me an email tonight at scott_wahlstrom@wrsd.net

  • Subject: Please include me in class mailings.

Do Now:

Take out your assignment notebook:

Record tonight's homework in it and leave it open on the table for me to check.

Open your science notebook and prepare a heading on the first page for science notes.

  • Date

  • Topic Title

 

Lesson:

Essential Question:

  • How do we describe the physical world?

Massachusetts Standard:

Crosscutting Concept: 

Welcome:

1.      seating - alphabetically for now - please re-seat now according to our class list.

SLANT: Class website

1.      Web address in your notebook.

2.      Contact pages

SLANT: Classroom procedures

  1. Entering

  2. During

  3. Leaving

  4. Emergencies

  5. Necessities

    1. bathroom

    2. pencil sharpene

    3. Paper, art supplies, etc.

SLANT: Metric System Review

·         metric is the universal system of measurement

·         it is the only system we will use in science

·         prefixes are used to represent numerical place value.

o    - 10's, 100's, 0.1's, etc.

·         they are combined with units to make small and large units of measure

o    - kilometer

o    - deciliter

How familiar is this all to you?

Last year?

Homework:

Research and review metric prefixes and metric units as needed.  Complete the Metric Review Worksheet for tomorrow.

Time to work in class

WIN:

Technology Policies and Rules:

Homework:

  1. Please complete this community service survey - even if you think you did it last year.  (It  has changed.)

Lesson:

Essential Question:

  • How do we describe the physical world?

Massachusetts Standard:

Crosscutting Concept: 

STUDENTS TO READ "WHAT IS MOTION?" IN MOTION, FORCES, AND ENERGY (PAGES 8 TO 13).

Handout Chapter Packet

 

TRES COMPADRES READING Format: READER, COMMENTEr, QUESTIONER

 

Taking turns:

  1. Reader reads paragraph.

  2. Commenter makes a comment about the paragraph (Annotate the reading with this comment.)

  3. Questioner asks a clarifying question about the paragraph. (Annotate the reading with this comment.)

  4. Group discusses the question and annotated the reading with their thoughts on it.

 

Rotate rolls for each new paragraph and repeat process.

 

Fill out Ah Ha's vs Hmm... worksheet

 

Class Discussion:

 

for homework, please RESPOND TO the CHAPTER QUESTION handout IN YOUR SCIENCE NOTEBOOK.

  • Formal homework format

  • skip three lines between each question

  • go neat or go home

 

Tuesday, August 28, 2018. Day 1 - Welcome Back

First Day of School

 

Welcome!

HOMEROOM 8:10 TO 8:25:

1.      Collect tissues and supplies, store.

2.      Hand out Agenda Books

3.      Hand out student class assignments.

4.      Hand out blank schedules.

5.      Your first class today is Related Arts - go to the Gymnasium

6.      Bring a pencil and your schedules gym for R/A scheduling and a chance to talk with our new principal and assistant principal

7.      You may leave your bags here today.  Please pack them up neatly and tuck in your chair. (This will be the last time this is permitted this year.)

8.      After R/A, go to the first class listed on your class assignment sheet.

9.      Return here to Homeroom for WIN block (10:48)

10.  Dismiss to R/A at 8:25

 

First Day Details: The Powerpoint

Schedules - Blank Template Grade 8

Schedules - Blank Template Grade 7

Class Lists for Grade 8 this year

Class Lists for grade 7 this Year

Reflecting on Last Year

10:45 - switch to humanities

six classes after lunch - 30 minutes ea

 

Classes:

Grade 8 Agenda:

Welcome:

Make Folder Tabs

I use hanging file folders for passing back work when you are absent.

The filing cabinet has a drawer for your grade level.

Names are arranged alphabetically.

Maintaining and checking your folder (after an absence) is your responsibility.

Make Tabs

You will be grouped with five peers Each group receives

(1) index card

(1) pair of scissors

(1) ruler

(1) sample folder tab - which is to be returned undamaged at the end of the exercise

Using these materials, the group has five minutes to:

produce five exact copies of the sample tab

each student write their first and last name neatly on 1 copy of the tab in black

decorate as time permits

Return all materials to their designated spots in a neat and professional manner.

Recycle waste.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SURVEY.

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Make Folder Tabs

I use hanging file folders for passing back work when you are absent.

The filing cabinet has a drawer for your grade level.

Names are arranged alphabetically.

Maintaining and checking your folder (after an absence) is your responsibility.

Make Tabs

You will be grouped with five peers Each group receives

(1) index card

(1) pair of scissors

(1) ruler

(1) sample folder tab - which is to be returned undamaged at the end of the exercise

Using these materials, the group has five minutes to:

produce five exact copies of the sample tab

each student write their first and last name neatly on 1 copy of the tab in black

decorate as time permits

Return all materials to their designated spots in a neat and professional manner.

Recycle waste.

 

Homework:

Metric Review Sheet due tomorrow

Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Day 3

Homeroom:

Pass out lunch Tix

N.P. - see Ms. Specker ASAP

All students are reminded: Water is for drinking.

 

Grade 8 agenda:

DO NOW:

PLEASE GET OUT YOUR TUVALU PART 2 WORKSHEET from yesterday.

Who is responsible?

  • Please complete in Google Classroom:

Sea levels are rising because of climate change.  Humans are warming the climate by burning fossil fuels and emitting carbon dioxide that warms the planet.

Use the internet to look up carbon dioxide emissions by nation and find a graph or table that summarizes the information. Then respond to the following:

 

  1. Who is responsible for what is happening to the people of Tuvalu? 

    • Paste your graph or table in support of your response.

  2. Do you bear any personal responsibility for what is happening to the people of Tuvalu? If not, does anyone else bear personal responsibility?

  3. What can you do in support of the people of Tuvalu? Are you willing to do it? Why or why not.

 

Monday, June 18, 2018. Day 2

Homeroom:

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Homework:

 

Do Now:

  • obtain a CHROMEBOOK and log in.

    • close it and wait.

Lesson:

Hand back and go over "Magnetic Storm"

Solar Flare Creates Beautiful Aurora CR Quiz

Link to Google Form Quiz

Magnetism Experiments

Approval and Experimentation

 

 

Grade 8 Agenda:

Homework:

Complete internet research and HW question on Tuvalu Part 2 Worksheet

do Now:

PLEASE GET OUT YOUR Tuvalu worksheet FROM FRIDAY.

Lesson:

Tuvalu Part 2 worksheet

  • Is breaking the law ever acceptable?

    • If so:

      • When? 

      • why or why not?

 

Friday, June 15, 2018. Day 1

Homeroom:

 

Grade 8 Agenda:

Homework:

 

Do Now:

Get a copy of the Tuvalu worksheet

Quietly reflect and complete #1

Lesson:

Discuss personal reflections on imagining the loss of your home.

Small group: Q2. Empathy

Watch the video on tuvalu.

Small Group:

Q. 3 through 5

Class discussion of responses.

Personal reflection (on back) due Monday if not finished in class.

 

 

WIN:

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

HOMEWORK:

EXPERIMENTAL PLAN #2 DUE NLT TONIGHT PLEASE.

  • If you need any special items for your first experiment - bring them in on Monday.

  • there is no "late"...

AURORA ARTICLE: READ AND COMPLETE QUESTIONS FOR MONDAY MORNING IN CLASS.

DO NOW:

 

LESSON:

EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM

COMPLETE THE EXPERIMENTAL PLAN 2 IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Late students must complete #1 as well.

Begin experimentation?

WHEN FINISHED: READ AND COMPLETE AURORA ARTICLE FOR Monday

  • FORMAL HW

  • MAY BE COMPLETED AS A DOCUMENT OR IN SCIENCE NOTEBOOK

Thursday, June 14, 2018. Day 6

Homeroom:

 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Homework:

Experimental Plan due NLT tonight please.

Aurora Article: Read and complete questions for Monday Morning in class.

Do Now:

 

Lesson:

Experiments in Magnetism

Complete the Experimental Planner in Google Classroom

When finished: Read and complete Aurora Article for Monday

  • Formal HW

  • may be completed as a document or in science notebook

 

WIN:

 

Grade 8 Agenda:

Homework:

None.

Lesson:

end of year math exam