Week of Aug.25th - Aug. 29th

Friday, Aug. 29th:
Congratulations to the following falcons! They earned an A/ B on their First 6th grade math Quiz.
Period 1
Payton, Jasmine F., Deborah, Isabella K., Jenna J.,Shahida, Adilene, Bruneil, Madison, Juan E, Robert, Daniela, Jasmine S. , Fernando,

Period 5:
Gabriella, Yash, Dat, Yair, Jetti, Lenea, Rosario, Kate, Maelin, Ryan P, Izabella S. ,Jonathan, Lousie, Kai,
Period 6:
Shayne, Ryan B. ,Sedin, Ethan, Sabrina, Matthew M., Payton, Humberto, Sean, Mayra, Ashley C., Maria, Seyla, Aaliyah, Miranda, Monica

Thursday, Aug. 28th: 
Periods 1,5 & 6:   Finish Group Work and Review for Quiz.
Periods 2 & 3:  mini Project
Wednesday, Aug. 27th:
Periods 1, 5 & 6:  Unit 1 Quiz 1 Practice 
Periods 2 & 3: Finish GCF and LCM practice

Tuesday, Aug. 26th:

Period 1,5,& 6
Homework: Finding the GCF or LCM
Please use the blue paper with Venn Diagrams to demonstrate your work. Don't forget the actually problems that you need to solve are from Monday's homework .

Period 2 & 3:
Today, we prepared for LCM using Venn Diagrams.

All Classes:
Need help finding GCF and LCM using a Venn Diagram?  Watch this video.


Monday, Aug. 25th.

Periods 1, 5, & 6: Finding the GCF or LCM
Homework:
Identifying if a word problem is GCF or LCM #1-6
Glue down your GCF and LCM Problem Solving foldable into your note.

Periods 2 & 3:
Finish your GCF packet

Homework and class news for the week of Aug. 18th - Aug. 22nd

Friday:
All Class: In class practice and notebook check.
Thursday's Homework:

Period 1: Problem #1 from yellow notes
Periods 5 & 6 : Finding the GCF problems 6,7,8 only.  ( We are re-using the homework questions from Wednesday).
Period 2  & 3: In Class practice:  Prime Factorization and GCF

Extra  GCF practice:
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/beyondfacts/gcfsketch.html
http://www.softschools.com/math/factors/greatest_common_factor/gcf_with_venn_diagram/
http://www.mathplayground.com/factortrees.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/GreatestCommonFactor.htm

Wednesday's Homework:
Period 1:  GCF or Not GCF Class was invoked in problem solving that we did not finish our math lesson. We will continue our topic on Thursday. (No Homework)
Periods 5 & 6:  GCF or not GCF

Periods 2 & 3: In class work: Prime and composite numbers.

Tuesday's Homework: 
Periods 1,5& 6: Fact Family Exploration
Periods 2 & 3: Cut and Create / Multiplication and division practice

Monday's News and Homework:
Today, we officially started using our Math Journal. Please ask your student to show you their journal.  Here are a few pics of our math journal.

Notebook title

A pocket to keep our calendar

Our first guided notes of the year.

Today's homework
Should be glued down

Today's Homework:
Period 1:  Fact Families practice
Period 2: Puzzling fact families (yellow paper)
Period 3: Puzzling fact families (yellow paper)
Period 5: Fact Families practice
Period 6: Fact Families Practice

Extra Practice : http://www.mathplayground.com/PartPartWhole.html

Aug. 15,2013

Yay!  Week one is done.  We learned so much in three day.  We learned the schedule rotation, how to use the classroom supplies, working together and Falcon Expectations.  Next week, We will start Unit1: Operations with Rational Numbers.

Period 1:
Don't forget to get your hand book signed both front and back.  Let's win the contest!

Periods 2 and 3:  You did a wonderful job learning how to SCOOT.

Period 1, 5, & 6:  It was a great first week!

Mrs. Maciel's Rules and expectations

Welcome Falcon Families!