Chrysalis Math and Chinese: 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

Back to School Time!!!!!

Welcome back to school everyone! Hope you are gearing up for another great year. We have some great plans and activities for Math this year that everyone will enjoy.

Hope to see parents and students at this Sunday's Open House from 12-4pm!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Middle School Mayhem Pics Part One

6th, 7th, and 8th Grade for Middle School Mayhem 2011!!!

Egg Race Team Relay

Careful with the hand off of the precious egg...

Middle School Mayhem Pics Part Two

Paper Dragon Partner Game

Watermelon snack break

Cheese! I mean watermelon?

Bite Me Team Relay

Bat Spin Team Relay

Walter grilling the hot dogs and hamburgers

Cup Pyramid Partner Game

Look at the concentration!

You call that water? That's a mini iceberg ~Wesley

Middle School Mayhem Pics

Checking the scoreboard...

Taking a break

Dog tired!

Water balloons galore!

Thirsty Frank Team Relay

Stop Drop Pop Partner Game

More Middle School Mayhem Pictures!

The Tennis Maze Game

Eat the Oreo!

BucketHead Team Game

Looks like someone got drenched...

Captain's On Deck!

Great teamwork everyone!

Ms Kimberly and the 6th Grade

Ms Annie and the 8th Grade

Friday, May 13, 2011

Middle School Mayhem 2011

The Winning Team!

Awesome Teachers!

Group Photo!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Algebra Multiplying Polynomials with Polynomials

Today we discussed different methods of multiplying polynomials; box method, FOIL, vertical method, and distributive method. Please see the notes here

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Lock In Pics

Pillow Fight! Don't worry, no one was hurt...I hope

Bowlers on your mark!

Going crazy already Ashleigh?

Middle School Lock In Group Photo

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Middle School Lock In!

The Middle School Lock In is scheduled for 5/5, Thursday night.

Drop off at 7pm.

Bring whatever is needed for an overnight stay, such as sleeping bags, games, movies, medication, etc...

We will also be going bowling so students can bring some extra cash for snacks and games at the bowling alley.

Pick up is Friday morning at 7:30am.

Students who attend the lock-in do not have to attend school Friday.

Walter and I will be chaperoning the students and Richard will be in the building as well.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Math 6 Demonstrates Squares and Square Roots

Making squares with Fruit Loops

Determine the number on one side of the square to determine the square root of the number!

Estimate a square root by almost making a perfect square

Pre Algebra Learns about Rational Numbers

Ahhh Fractions!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pre Algebra Quiz Tomorrow (Wednesday)

Review notes for the quiz tomorrow over the first half of chapter 7 can be found here

Algebra - Intro to Monomials

Today we discussed monomials and had home studies due Wednesday p.499 (16-23). You can find notes here

Math 6 Squares and Square Roots

Today we discussed squaring and square rooting numbers. You can find the notes here. Pictures from today's activities will be posted shortly.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Conversational Chinese II

Hardest Languages to Learn link

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Algebra Test Thursday

The Algebra test tomorrow on Chapter 8 will be open note/book. We played the "unfair" math game today to review, here are the notes and some more practice problems...here

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Algebra Elimination by Multiplication/Division Notes

Tonight's home studies is on the Elimination worksheet #11 and #12. You can also find the problems in the notes here.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Algebra Mid Chapter Quiz Tomorrow

Please do the best you can on the study guides given for the quiz tomorrow and bring in your work tomorrow. You can find the outline and notes for the quiz here.

Extra help can be found on the Glencoe website under Chapter 8 here

*Bring in the quiz outline for 5 points extra credit on your quiz!