Dec. 10, 2012 Gingerbread House Project

Parents,

Please remember to send the following items with your student for their Gingerbread House Math Project this week.

Gingerbread House

Parents,

 

During the week of December 9^th, my Math students will be making their own Gingerbread House!  This will involve the initial template drawing stage, using measurement/geometry.  From there, we will be preparing the gingerbread dough using our prior knowledge of fractions to properly measure the ingredients.  We will be learning about converting Celsius to Fahrenheit to Celsius, as well.  And finally, we will be using engineering skills in the final construction of the house! 

Since each student will be making their own house, I am asking each student to compile and bring in their ingredients for the project.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup light molasses or dark corn syrup
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• Include a mixing bowl, measuring cups & teaspoon measuring

*These utensils will be returned with your student after use.

·          (I will have the following available to all students:  1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon ground ginger,  1-1/2 teaspoons ground cloves,  1 teaspoon baking soda , 2 tablespoons water.)

Thank you!  Mrs. Hartman

Survey Monkey

Parents,

Please click the following links (at least one or all) to help 7th & 8th graders work on their

Survey Monkey survey assignment.

Thanks so much!

Mrs. Hartman

www.surveymonkey.com/s/7L7RSQY
www.surveymonkey.com/s/7VQ5JLS
www.surveymonkey.com/s/7VRJWRJ
www.surveymonkey.com/s/77NZHLR
www.surveymonkey.com/s/77983DC
www.surveymonkey.com/s/79VQN67

November 1, 2012 Field Trip

Parents,

We still need additional drivers for our 5-8 grade Field Trip on Friday, November 9.

Leave school at 8:00am and return by 1:00pm.

Please email Mrs. Lollie if you can drive and also, let her know how many students you can take in your vehicle.

lgsciencelab@gmail.com


Thank you for your active participation, we truly appreicate it!

Mrs. Hartman

http://www.hgms.org/

October 15, 2012

This week 7th grade will continue their work on Integers by multiplying and dividing integers.  7th grade has been adding and subtracting positive and negative integers, and quoting the mantra..."Add its Opposite!".

  6th grade will begin to unravel the wide world of integers using numberlines to determine value and along with negative integers, we will also be introducing Absolute Value.

 

8th grade's lessons will focus on Unit Rate, Ratios & Percentages.  This week 8th grade students are learning about real-life financial mathematics.  They are given a budget of $10,000 to purchase a car that will transport them to their first year of college and to a part-time (20 hrs. per week), minimum wage job.  They must determine the gas usage, using unit rate calculations and determine whether they can afford the car expenses!

 

5th grade continues down the rode of multiplication and division, using real-life word problems.  Introduction to this week's lesson asked the students whether life gives us an written mathematical  expression during our daily lives or does it ask us to "figure it out!".  Life is one huge word problem!

 

Thank you to all for your support of the Fall Festival.  We are still waiting for some of the tickets sales money to be handed in by early next week. 

 Remember, we need all 5th grade parents to contribute two (2) cakes to the "Topsy Turvy Cake Walk".

Fall Festival Meeting Sept. 18th!

Redd School Fall Festival Meeting, Tuesday, September 18th @ 7:00pm in the Multi-Purpose Room.

5th Grade will be in charge of this year's...
"Topsy Curvy Cake Walk" Booth. 

Parents will be asked to participate by volunteering an hour of your time to man the booth and donate cakes to the booth activity.  Please sign up in the Middle School for the Cake Walk Booth Volunteering Sheet.

Thank you so much for your help making this year's Fall Festival a great hit!

Mrs. Hartman

Sept. 10, 2012

Fall is almost here, love the cooler weather!

This week 8th grade will be working on fractions, rational and irrational numbers.  Some of the fractions will be review to cement their prior knowledge and have a greater competency working with fractions.  Students will have homework in the Algebra To Go textbook, which will be most often than not reading homework.

7th grade is also working with fractions, rational and irrational numbers this week.  The TEKS requirements for 8/7th grades are very similar for the first few weeks.  Homework will be in the Math in Focus  textbook, along with projects and other worksheets during the year.

6th grade is working on greater than and less than, negative and positive integers, prime factorization and common multiples.  Students will be doing an independent Prime Factorization project, also.

5th grade will continue working on place value, greater than and less than, and rounding large numbers.  Homework will be assigned from the MIF workbook, in addition, students may have other worksheets and projects throughout the year.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Hartman

August 27, 2012

Happy Second Week of School!

Thank you to all Parents and Students for great first week back to school.

This week my students will begin with Math Word Problems.  Students will learn to identify key words and the functions these words indicate in relation to the word problem.  We will look at strategies to apply to the word problems as a plan to write an expression and solve.

Students will be asked about real life applications..."When would you come across word problems in everyday life?"  "What job or career uses mathematical word problems on a daily basis?" 

Textbooks will be assigned this week and homework begins, as well.

Critical Thinking Blogging starts today, Monday and runs through Thursday.  Please let me know if anyone is having problems signing on to the blog.

Thank you,
Mrs. Hartman