The mission of Graettinger-Terril Community Schools is to develop competent citizens who will be successful participants in a rapidly changing world. This will be accomplished by providing each student with a challenging, progressive curriculum taught by a dedicated staff in a nurturing environment.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Assignments: Week of Oct. 4

SIXTH GRADE:
Mon. - Practice Test
Tues. - Practice Test
Wed. - Final Test Ch.2 and cumulative review
Thurs. - Place Value - decimals through thousandths Study Guide/Practice 3-1
Fri. - Skills Iowa Math 6 Assessment 3

SEVENTH GRADE:
Mon. - Text practice test ch. 2
Tues. - Final Test Ch. 2 and cumulative review
Wed. - Choosing appropriate scales and intervals - Frequency Table Study Guide/Prac. 3-1
Thurs. - Making Predictions from bar and line graphs, Study Guide/Practice 3-2
Friday - Skills Iowa Math 7 Assessments 3 & 4

EIGHTH GRADE:
Mon. - Express percents as fractions and decimals - study guide/practice 3-4, text 116-117
Tues. - Finding percent of a number - study guide/practice 3-5 text 122
Wed. - Using equivalent fractions and decimals - study guide/practice 3-6, text 128 - 129
Thurs. - Skills Iowa Math Assessments 1 & 6
Fri. - Text Review 612-613 Lessons 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4 Ratio/Rates/Percent & Solve Proportions

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Assignments Sept. 27-Oct. 1

6th Grade:
Mon. - Study Guide/Practice 2-9 Organized pairs to locate points & organize data
Tues. - Chapter study guide, constructing graphs pp. 86-88
Wed. - Chapter review pp. 560-561 lessons 2-3 to 2-6
Thurs. - Chapter Review p. 559 lesson 2-1 #'s 1 & 2 p. 562 lesson 2-7
Fri. - practice test p. 596

7th Grade:
Mon. - Chapter review p. 572 lessons 2-4, 2-5 multiplying decimals
Tues. - p. 572 lesson 2-6, p.573 lesson 2-7 lesson 2-9 scientific notation
Wed. - Study guide for assessment pp. 80-82
Thurs. - Practice test
Fri. - Practice test

8th Grade:
Mon. - Practice test
Tues. - Practice test
Wed. - Final Test Ch. 2 and cumulative review
Thurs. - Text 104 and 107 Ratios as rates and percents Study Guide/Prac. 3-1, 3-2
Friday - Text p.111 Solving Proportions

Thursday, September 16, 2010

ASSIGNMENTS FOR SEPT. 20-24

SIXTH GRADE:
Mon. - Skills Iowa - laptops
Tues. - Study Guide/Practice 2-6 Constructing Stem & Leaf Plots
Wed. - Study Guide/Practice 2-7 Find mean, median, mode
Thurs. - Continue Prac. 2-7 mean, median, mode, and range
Fri. - Study Guide/Practice Misleading Statistics 2-8

SEVENTH GRADE:
Mon. - Skills Iowa
Tues. - Study Guide/Practice2-7 Fractions as terminating & repeating decimals
Wed. - SG/Prac. 2-9 Scientific Notation
Thurs. - Review Lessons 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 p. 570-571
Fri. - Review Multiplying Decimals Lessons 2-4, 2-5 p.572

EIGHTH GRADE:
Mon. - Skills Iowa
Tues. - SG/Prac. 2-9 Solving Equations
Wed. - SG/Prac 2-10 Coordinate Plane, text 88 #11-28
Thurs. - Review pp. 610-611 Lessons 2-7, 2-8, 2-9
Fri. - Study Guide for Assessment pp. 96-98

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Assignments for Sept. 14-17

6th Grade
Tues. - Study Guide/Practice 2-2 Choosing Scale and Interval
Wed. - Study Guide/Practice 2-3 Using Bar and Line Graphs
Thurs. - SG/Practice 2-4 Reading Circle Graphs
Fri. - SG/Practice 2-5 Predictions from Line Graphs

7th Grade
Tues. - SG/Practice 2-5 Multiply by Powers of 10
Wed. - Text p.68 #12-23 Dividing Decimals
Thurs. - SG/Practice 2-6 Continue Dividing by Decimals
Fri. - SG/Practice 2-6 More Dividing by Decimals

8th Grade
Tues. - Study Guide/Practice 2-5 Subtracting Integers (must rewrite)
Wed. - SG/Practice 2-7, p.80 #12-29 Multiplying Integers
Thurs. - SG/Practice 2-8 p.82 #14-31 Dividing Integers
Fri. - Review Adding and Subtracting Integers pp.62, 64, 70
Assign lessons 2-3, 2-4, 2-5

Sixth Grade Math Test

Congratulations to the sixth grade students who did well on the first Math test: Hailey, Brandon, Payton, Emma, Rachel, Alex, Joshua, Kort, and Becky!

Friday, September 3, 2010

7th Grade Chapter 1 Math Test

CONGRATULATIONS to the 7th grade students who did well on the first Math test: Sara, Tyler, Michela, Cassy, Zach, Alex, Kyleigh, Josh, Travis, Jillian, and Hunter!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Assignments for Sept. 7 - Sept. 10

6th Math
Tues. - Practice Test Ch.1
Wed. - Final Test Ch. 1
Thurs. - Study Guide & Practice 2-1 Frequency Tables
Fri. - Study Guide & Practice 2-2 Scale and Interval

7th Math
Tues. - Study Guide/Practice 2-1 Compare & Order Decimals
Wed. - Study Guide/Practice 2-2 Rounding Decimals
Thurs. - Study Guide/Practice 2-3 Estimating with Decimals
Fri. - Study Guide/Practice 2-4 Multiplying Decimals

8th Math
Tues. - Chapter 1 Final Test, Cumulative Review
Wed. - Study Guide and Practice 2-1, 2-2 Graph & Compare/Order Integers
Thurs. - Study Guide and Practice 2-3 Rules for Adding Integers
Friday - Study Guide and Practice 2-4 More About Adding Integers