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Teachers dressed up for Halloween!
Dr. Viktor Frakenstein, a Panda, and Dogzilla



Pre Algebra: Chapter 3 tests will be handed back by Friday. We have started Chapter 4 on Statistics and Data Analysis. Students should know how to create a frequency table and histogram.

Chinese II: Test on Thursday and Cartoon project due Monday

Algebra: We talked about the Capture/Recapture method of sampling to determine fish population. We used goldfish to simulate this activity.




Chinese I: Test moved to Thursday due to field study

Homeroom: The 5th/6th grade homeroom won the Dreamland Competition and brought in the most donations, so as a reward we went to Chuck E Cheeses!

Upcoming Quizzes

Pre Algebra: Quiz Friday on Integers

Chinese II: Quiz Friday on Stores and Clothing

Algebra: Quiz Thursday on Solving Multistep Equations

Math 5/6: Quiz Friday on Decimals

Chinese I: Quiz Wednesday on Time, Colors, and Prepositions

The Chinese I class took a series a photos to learn recent vocabulary for the classroom and prepositions. We created a "Where's Wesley" photo series, come see it on my bulletin board!

Wednesday Home Studies

Pre Algebra: p.59 (7-11), also Mid Chapter Quiz Tuesday

Chinese II: Quiz on Friday on Comparisons and Superlatives

Algebra: p.97 (20-34 even), Mid Chapter Quiz moved to Friday

Math 5/6: Bring in your favorite short poem for a Linguistics lesson!
Math 5: p.49 (5-10)
Math 6: p.91 (4-12 even)

Monday Summary

Pre Algebra: p.46 (17-24)
Discussed Order of Operations and Algebra. For more help on Order of Operations click here

Chinese II: We began talking about ways to compare things, ie who is taller...

Algebra: Discussed subtracting integers and absolute value

Math 5/6: Determined whether a bar graph, line graph, or pie graph would best be used to display types of data.

Chinese I: Continued with The Monkey King

School Closed Tuesday

School has been canceled for Tuesday, September 22, 2009. Please check 11Alive.com for more school listings.

Pre Algebra: Chapter 1 Test Friday

Chinese I and II: Field Study to Chinatown on Thursday, make sure to bring money for Dim Sum and a trip to the Asian Farmers Market

Algebra: Chapter 1 Test upon return to school

Math 5/6: Chapter 1 Test Thursday

Week End Summary

Pre Algebra: Graded quizzes were returned with a 5 point curve. There will be a test over Chapter 1 next week, date to be determined

Chinese II: Learned specialty shops and what they sell. Field study next week on Thursday to Chinatown for lunch and shopping.

Algebra: Finished Chapter 1 and did graded classwork (p.63-66, 2-68 even exculding 34). Chapter 1 test on Tuesday

Math 5/6: Finishing up the last two sections for Chapter 1. Chapter 1 test will be next Thursday.
Math 5 Home Studies: p. 34 (18-32 evens)
Math 6 Home Studies: p. 40 (20-40 evens)

Chinese I: Test One today and upcoming field study next Thursday to Chinatown with the Chinese II students.

More details on the Chinese field study to be announced here.

Tuesday Home Studies and Upcoming Quizzes

Pre Algebra: Finish logic puzzle
Pre Algebra: Mid Chapter quiz Thursday

Chinese II: Describing people Quiz Wednesday

Algebra: p. 49(26-29 & 36-41)
Algebra: Tentative test date next Tuesday

Math 5: p.29(29-39)
Math 6: p.30(16-24)

Chinese I: Make up Quiz Wednesday and Test Friday

Monday Home Studies

Pre Algebra: For those who did not finish class work from p.13 (14-24 even). Quiz on Thursday

Chinese II: Quiz on Wednesday

Algebra: Finish the Identity and Properties worksheet 1-13

Wednesday Home Studies and Upcoming Quizzes

Chinese II: Bring in a magazine and poster board

Algebra: p.35 (16-30 even)
Algebra: Mid Chapter Quiz on Friday

Math 5/6: 5th Grade - p. 17 (26-38 even), 6th grade - p. 12 (18-30 even)
Math 5/6: Quiz Friday

Chinese I: Quiz Friday on possessive pronouns, family, weather and seasons, dates, and conversation

Monday Home Studies

Hope everyone had a great weekend, now it's time to practice the skills you are learning in class!

Pre Algebra: none

Chinese II: Make up a 5 day weather forecast for the week. Make each day different!
Weather in China

Algebra: p. 9-10 (18-38 even) Remember to copy the problem down in your composition book, then write your answer
Need extra help with algebraic expressions? Try these examples:
http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/equations.html

Math 5/6: Post your word problem under the comments part of this blog

Chinese I: none

Thursday Home Studies

Home Studies for the following classes:

Pre Algebra: For those students who did not post their word problem last night please do so tonight! Otherwise, no home studies who completed this already.

Chinese II: We will be having a Review Test next week that will cover the basics of what you learned in Chinese I. It is a two part quiz; first part on Tuesday and second part on Wednesday due to the amount of vocabulary and phrases.

Algebra: Refresh on pre requisite concept 3 on page A10. The A pages are before the book actually starts. Please complete on page A11 numbers 10-18 in your composition book. Make sure to copy the problem down first and then solve.

Math 5/6: Complete the 1st and 3rd lines on the front page of the worksheet that was handed out in class (p30).

Any questions? Leave me a comment or email me at msanniesun@gmail.com.

Good Luck!

Wednesday, August 12 Home Studies

Pre Algebra: Rewrite classroom, student, and teacher expectations into your composition book (due Friday)

Chinese II: Quiz on Friday covering introductions, numbers, and dates

Algebra: Finish the rest of the Pre Test problems (due Thursday) and rewrite classroom, student, and teacher expectations into your composition book (due Friday)

Math 5/6: Rewrite classroom, student, and teacher expectations into your composition book (due Friday)

Chinese I: Find out what the "unlucky" number is in Chinese and why (due Thursday)

Chinese II Word Search

In the Chinese II class we researched how many characters are in the Chinese written language.

One student found 47,035 and another student found that a Chinese dictionary contains over 40,000 (both sourced Wikipedia). We also discovered that the average educated person knows only 6 t0 7 thousand of these characters and to read a newspaper, you need to know 3,000 characters!