Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Back to School

School is underway! The classroom is set up and ready to go, and now the students have arrived! Let the school year begin!

The BRIGHT, inviting classroom...








The first couple of days have been spent discussing rules and expectations, and getting to know the students. The students were able to see the teachers and a few other staff members in a different light. See the pictures below.


What is in Store for this Week?

Monday, August 18 - Wednesday, August 20
The students will learn strategies to solve multiplication problems using the standard algorithm. (Which means the students will be learning old school multiplication, no lattice or partial products.) Common Core expects the students to understand and use the standard algorithm on the test so we will prepare the students to correctly multiply 3 digit by 2 digit numbers.

Thursday, August 21 & Friday, August 22
Introduce and practice ST Math. 



"The ST Math Program Family for Middle School includes on-grade-level content as well as intervention content that can be used with students who are at a variety of levels of math understanding."
ST Math: Middle School Supplement prepares students for success in Algebra 1 by remediating students on concepts from previous grade levels and by building students’ conceptual understanding of select on-grade-level math concepts from 6th, 7th and 8th grade mathematics. The software is designed to connect interactive visual models to abstract concepts and language components for each math topic. The built-in diagnostic tool personalizes the learning path for students and gives each student the intervention content that he or she needs. Individualized student reports provide teachers with diagnostic results and real-time content mastery for each student. http://web.stmath.com/