5-18-09

Good Monday Morning to all,

What a great field trip we had to Fun Town last Friday- The math and science was nice to explore, but the socializing was great. I hope your day was a memory for a lifetime.

In math class we are starting probability. We will be doing some group work for this week.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

5-14-09

Good Thursday Morning,

I hope you all have your FUN TOWN permission slips in today for our PHYSICS Field trip tomorrow.

In math class we will be going over a few things with the worksheets that go along with the field trip.

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

5-12-09

Good Tuesday Morning,


In math class we are progressing on with the trig functions of sine, cosine and tangents. I hope you got familiar with the formulas with yesterday's work, so today we can apply them.

Homework:pages 466-467 # 13-23 all


We still need 5 chaperones for our trip to FUNTOWN this Friday.


Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

5-11-09

Good Monday Morning,

I hope you all had a restful Mother's Day Weekend and did something special with your family.

In math class, most of you did an excellent job with the special triangle quiz on Friday. You will be getting those back today and need to correct any errors if necessary and have your parents sign them.

We will start with some trigonometric functions today. They sound harder than they are so hang in there.

Homework:page 466 # 6- 8 and 13-15

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

5-8-09

Good FRIDAY morning,

Happy Friday to all of you.

In math class we are taking a brief quiz over the special angles to see how you are coming along with these.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

5-7-09

Good Rainy Morning,

Today we should be able to do some math! That is a refreshing idea!

We are continuing on with special triangles: 45 45 90 and 30 60 90 and the formulas for both types. I believe that you are catching on and with today's lesson, that should happen for most kids.

Homework: Page 459 # 7-17 odd

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

5-6-09

Good Tuesday Morning,
Today is the Multi-Cultural Workshop for the students. It is a half day for students.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

5-5-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

Today we do some math. We are going to be working with special right triangles and the properties related to them.

Homework: pages 459 # 6-18 even #

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

5-4-09

Good Monday Morning,

I hope you all have a safe and healthy weekend.

We are taking the NWEA tests today in math class. Tomorrow in math class we are restarting new concepts after a break with the toothpick bridge contest. We are looking into special triangles and getting an understanding of square roots of irregular squares. Sounds difficult, but hang in there, it is easier than it sounds.



Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-29-09

Happy Wednesday Morning,

Today we test the strength of the toothpick bridges down in the ping pong room as a whole team with GDI. I hope you all are surprised on how well your bridges do. On Friday, we will have the results of all of the other teams as they are breaking their's on Thursday and Friday. We will have a brief 8th assembly and announce the winning bridges.

Also on Friday, GDI is having a celebration for reaching the 500,000 milestone with the PULLTABS. The teachers are supplying pizza for the occasion. Please bring in drinks if you are in Mr Wilkinson /Mr Mitchell rooms- chips if you are in Mrs Littlefield or my room.
We will meet during lunch time and tutorial if needed.

Complete your work on Page 445 # 2-24 even if you have not done so.

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

4-28-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

We are working on the Pythagorean Theorem today and I am hoping the review from yesterday was a big help.

We are testing the strength of the bridges tomorrow. Hope your bridge is the strongest.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-27-09

Good Monday Morning,
Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful week break.

In math class today, we will be blowing out the fog from the long break-

The bridges should be all done by now, so the grading begins. The breaking will be on Wednesday!!

The news update for the pulltabs is that we did make our goal of 500,000 tabs counted and strung!! Congratulations! We are half way to the goal of one million! We have been collecting tabs for 2 1/2 years! Way to go class. To celebrate, we will be having a pizza party on Friday. We are asking you to bring in some food to help out, but we will provide the pizza. If you have a special diet, let me know. Mr. Wilkinson's and Mr.Mitchell's classes- drinks; Mrs.Littlfield's and my classes-chips. It is also Cup cake Friday, so that will be our desserts!

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-14-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

The project continues..... Your journal entry is: What did you do to help with the bridge project? With the model? What skill or talent did you bring to this project? Answer these in complete sentences that reflect the question.

Project is due at the end of class on Wednesday- that is tomorrow!

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-13-09

Oh Happy Monday,

We are continuing on with the bridge project until Wednesday, when all is due!! Follow the scoring guidelines and you should be fine. Detailed journals are due daily.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-10-09

Oh happy Friday,

We are still working on the bridge today. Keep following the guidelines in your packets and you should be fine. The project is due on Wednesday.

Special today: Company with the highest balance WINS an item of your choice from the warehouse!!!!!

Homework: Detailed journal entry-Print off before class

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

4-9-09

Happy Thursday Morning,

And the bridge building contest continues..... Make sure you are following the guidelines and you should be fine for the deadline of Wednesday. Your homework continues to write a detailed journal entry of the day's happenings.

Homework: Detailed journal - print off before class

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

4-8-09

Oh Happy Wednesday,

In math class we are still working on building the bridge. You need to follow the job descriptions as well as the guidelines for making these bridges. The warehouse is open today.

Homework: Detailed Journal writing- print off before class

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-7-09

Oh Happy Tuesday,

Today in math class we are continuing on with our bridge building project and today the WAREHOUSE is open!!! Today you start to build and really get into the project. Have fun, follow the guidelines in the back of your packets, and write in your journal about your company's progress.

Homework: Journal writing - print off BEFORE classes.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-6-09

Oh Happy Monday Morning,

Welcome to the first day of the last quarter!!!! Yikes, time marches on.

I will be looking at parent signatures today in class, so please bring the test in.

We are really starting our bridges today. Plans need to be designed and finalized. You may purchase land and get that ready. I will be checking out the journal entries also. Happy Building!

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-3-09

Oh happy Friday,

Today in math class, your company will continue in with the plans to build a bridge. Pay attention to the scoring guides and rubrics in the back of the packet. Journal your progress every day for an individual grade.

Homework: Chapter 10 test signatures from parents.

Quarter ends today. Anyone who has not made up work needs to do so TODAY.

Have a great weekend,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

4-2-09

Good Morning,

All eighth graders are working on building bridges out of toothpicks and will be doing so for the next 2 weeks or so. Homework for this time period will be to journalize daily on the work that you do and the work that your company does every day. These entries need to be detailed as this is a great deal of your grade.

Things to include in this entry:
* What I and the company did was...
* What successes I and the company had were...
* What struggles I and the company had were...
* What are the plans for tomorrow for me and the company for tomorrow...
* I need Mrs. Charle McAtee to know...
You may also add any additional thoughts to this daily entry.


Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

4-1-09

Happy April Fool's Day,

We are starting a project that involves every 8th grader! We will all be doing the same thing at the same time! I can't wait to start and hope you feel the same.

Homework: Signatures and corrections on chapter 10 test when all tests have been taken.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-30-09

Good Monday Morning,

Today is shortened schedule due to the musical you will be attending in the afternoon.

In math class, you are to prepare your own reference sheet-this must be your own work. You may bring this into the test tomorrow. Do the REVIEW QUIZ at the end of the chapter and check your answers in my book. When finished, go to classzone.com and practice eworkbook or animated games for chapter 10.

Review for chapter 10 test.

Grades close on Friday, April 3.

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

3-26-09

Good THURSDAY Morning,

It is a half day for you students today. No school for you folks on Friday either. Grades close on April 3, one week from tomorrow!!!

In math class we will review any problems you may be having with using formulas on surface area and volume for 3-D solids.
The test is on Tuesday- bring in YOUR own hand written reference sheet to use on chapter 10 test.
Today is "Cuppie Cake Friday" on THURSDAY!!! Let them eat cake!

Homework: Reference sheet for chapter 10

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-25-09

Good Wednesday morning,

How is it going for you in math with all the formulas? I have heard a bit from students that working and solving volume formulas is easier than surface area? This is good to hear. For one thing, just working over and over(practice) with formulas, makes the work more automatic, and secondly, I think you are now able to understand the symbols. Anyways, it is great that I am getting this feeling of the concepts surface area and volume of 3-D solids coming along.
Classwork: Review Quiz 2 on page 525

We are reviewing the work on volumes and starting to review for our test that is coming up on Tuesday over Chapter 10. Remember to bring in your own formula sheet to use during the test. Ask any question you may have on this during class, tutorial or before school.

FYI:
* Half student day on Thursday
* No school for students on Friday
* Grades close next Friday, April 3

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-24-09

Good Tuesday Morning,
I hope all is going well using formulas to help solve surface area problems for 3 - D shapes. We have covered surface area formulas for PRISMS, CYLINDERS, PYRAMIDS, and CONES. Surface area is the total outside surface of a polyhedron or solid. Nets are used to represent a solid in 2- D. We compared and contracted the properties of each of the solids, paying close attention to the bases.
After going over the work from last night on surface area of cones and pyramids, we will start to look into more formulas on VOLUMES of each of these shapes. How are surface area and volume alike and different?

Classwork to homework: Page 515-516 #2-26 even # Show all work

We are nearing the end of Chapter 10 and you know what that means- a test coming up on Tuesday. To prepare for it, you may bring in a standard sheet of paper( front and back) to use during the test that is filled with info. I would suggest that you record formulas in a neat and organized manner. You must bring in your own hand copy of this sheet.

FYI:
The Quarter ends April 3
Half student day on Thursday
No school for students on Friday

Make this a great day.

3-23-09

Good Monday Morning,

I hope you all had a restful weekend and are ready to go today.

In math class we are working on finding surface area of polyhedrons and solids using formulas. Now that we have done this with prisms and cylinders, this should be an easier week when we find the surface area of pyramids and cone.

Classwork( finish as homework if needed): pages 509-511
# 2-26 even only

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-20-09

Happy Spring and tGIF,

In math class we will be working on formulas on surface area for prisms and cylinders.

Classwork: page 505

Have a restful weekend,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-19-09

Good Thursday Morning,

Well, I do believe that we are going to have math after sure a dry spell with MEAs, field trips, high school scheduling and all. Do you remember where we are?

We will be going over the homework on page 505 #2-18 on surface areas of polyhedrons and solids. Make sure to come to class with all your math materials and ready to start.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-18-09

Good Wednesday Morning,

The second half of the team, Mr Mitchell's and my homerooms, are going to the museum today. The other homerooms will be here working on their social studies project.

Homework from Monday: Page 505 # 2-18 even
Make this a great day,

Mrs. Charle McAtee

3-17-09

Happy St Patty's Day to all,

With the field trips to the art museum today and tomorrow, we will not be having classes other than Period 1. That class will be doing what they didn't do with the other 3 classes and that is surface area of polyhedrons and solids.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-16-09

Good Monday Morning,

It is nice to have the MEAs in the past. It was a long week undertaking these, but you made it through.

FYI: The high school staff will be coming in to talk to you about your high school courses first period.

In math class we will be looking at surface area of prisms and cylinders. We will be applying formulas.

In class we will work on pages 504-505 # 2 18 even numbers. Finish this as homework.

Make this a great day.
Mrs Charle McAtee

3-9-09

Good Monday Morning,

This week is a big one- MEA week. Breakfast will be served Tuesday - Wednesday -Thursday- Friday, so eat up.

Today at 11:50- go to auditorium after lunch for an assembly.

It was nice seeing you and your parents for conferences. If you were unable to come during conference times, it is not too late to meet. Call 222-1232.

DO YOUR BEST.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-4-09

Good Wednesday Morning,

In math class we are taking that POP quiz I hinted about yesterday on 3-D shapes. Do your very best.

FYI:
* Half student day due to teacher workshop on Thursday
* No school for students due to conferences on Friday
* MEAs start on Tuesday
Make this a great day,

Mrs.Charle McAtee

3-3-09

Oh Happy Tuesday,

I have been remiss with getting this blog done, but I am back.

In math class we are working on 3-D shapes.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-12-09

Good Thursday Morning,

Due to the Spelling Bee today, classes with be shortened.

In math classes we will finish the Recipe Projects.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-11-09

Oh Happy Wednesday,

In math class we will be finishing up on the Recipe Project. I will meet with the groups to go over the rubric. While I am meeting with them, the rest of the class will be doing a task in Chapter 10. Search through 10.1 to find 3 BOLD words or phrases that you are familiar with and write them down with a definition and example that has meaning to you, and include the page number that you find this word. IN addition to those BOLD words that you are familiar with, you must also find 3 BOLD words or phrases that you are not familiar with(complete with page numbers). Continue on with 10.2 and 10.3 doing the same task for each of these sections.

No homework

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-10-09

Oh Happy Tuesday,

Today everyone is taking the drug and alcohol survey that will delay the start of classes. When that survey is completed, we will be having ALL classes today. What will be eliminated is the SSR/Tutorial time, so come prepared with your presentations today in math class.

NO HOMEWORK

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-9-09

Oh Happy Monday,

Today in math class we are finishing up the Recipe Project. Make sure you follow along with the project rubric so you get all your points possible. Presentations start Tuesday!!!!

Homework: Project

I would like to extend a grand THANK YOU to Mrs Plaisted who was so dedicated with calling parents to ensure that all students had a "CUPPY CAKE" celebration at the end of each month. She worked hard at this job for over 1 1/2 years!!! Thank you so much. Now, Mrs Johnson is taking over the reigns, so listen for her call this week.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-6-09

Good Friday Morning,

Oh Friday........

In math class we are working on putting the finishing touches on the Recipe Project. Most if not all recipes should be converted before class today. Today prices should be found and completed price list should be a focus. On Monday, the visual and organizing the presentation should be tackled. Make sure you are using the RUBRIC as a guide to this project. Presentation start on Tuesday.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-5-09

Happy Thursday Morning,

We are continuing on with the Recipe Project. I will be looking over the recipe conversions for all of your recipes, and you will start getting the prices for your ingredients. Presentations are starting on Tuesday. Check out the sites on the board to help out with this project.

Homework: Finish the price lists for all the ingredients from your recipes.

Make this a great day,
Mrs. Charle McAtee

2-4-09

Good Wednesday Morning,
We are working on our recipe project again today. You should have the recipes copied off now and working on the conversion sheet. We will go over this in class(page322).

Homework:
Conversions of all recipes due on Thursday

Presentations start on Tuesday.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-3-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

We are going to continue on with our Recipe Project. For homework today you should have your recipes rounded up and we will start some examples of how to convert them to larger proportions. PRESENTATIONS start on Tuesday, Feb 10.

Next steps: Find prices of the ingredients.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

2-2-09

Happy Ground Hog Day,

In math class we are starting a group project using Recipes. We will go over the particulars in class and the due date is Thursday.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-30-09

Oh Happy Friday,

I am back today and heard that you had a good time in class. I was unable to blog yesterday as I was not near a laptop.

In math class we will take that quiz on chapter 7.1-7.4 on converting fractions to decimals to percents.

Homework: Have a great weekend.

Make this a great day,
Mrs. Charle McAtee

1-27-09

Oh happy Tuesday,

How was last night's homework? I hope it was getting easier as you worked through the work. If not, make sure we cover this material today.

We are getting ready for a quiz over chapter 7.1-7.4 on Thursday. Bring in a calculator to use if necessary.

Half day on Wednesday for all students.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-26-09

Oh happy Monday,

Today is the first day of the 3rd quarter!!! Make is a great new start.

In math class we are continuing on with converting fractions to decimals to percents and using the percent equation.

Homework: page 334 # 12-60 even #

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-23-09

Oh Happy Friday,

We did it. Today is the last day of Quarter 2, can you believe this?!!

In math class we are working on proportions and from what work was done yesterday, you have a fairly solid grasp on this. Nonetheless, bring in any question you have with this. We will review converting fractions to decimals to percents.

Classwork: page 333-334 #2-48 even work in teams and check out the answers with my book.
Homework: Have a great weekend.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-22-09

Good Thursday Morning,

How did you do with lasts night's homework? I hope you found this a nice change. In class we will be going over the homework and questions from last night. We then will move on to PROPORTIONS. I think you are going to find this a review of some of the work we have done this year.

Homework: pages 324-326 #2 - 40 even #

FYI: Quarter 2 ends tomorrow!

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-21-09

Good Wednesday Morning,

It is fitting that with a new era in US History, we are starting a new concept in Math. Today we are going to start working on Ratios and Rates. These are very practical skills that will help you throughout your lifetime, so let's us get to this today. We will be learning how to set up ratios and rates and then we will be able to use and compare them.

Homework: pages 319-320 # 2-34 even numbers


FYI:
Quarter 2 ends this Friday

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-20-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

I am running very late due to a fire in my neighborhood, so you need to be extra helpful to the sub until I arrive.

Because this is a very special day with the coverage of our 44th president, we will be watching the news on this.

Homework:none

FYI: Quarter 2 ends this Friday.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-16-09

Burrrrrr,

We are taking a quiz on chapter 11.1-11.4 dealing with linear functions. If you are reading this blog this morning, I appreciate it.

Homework: Enjoy your LONG weekend and see you on Tuesday.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-15-09

Happy Thursday to all,

We will be reviewing the work on functions, graphing functions to get ready for the quiz on Friday over chapter 11.1-11.4. Please bring in any questions you have on any of this material.

Homework: Classzone.com Chapter 11 Sections 1-4

Make this a great day,
Mrs Charle McAtee

1-14-09

Good Wednesday Morning,

In math class we will be reviewing functions, tables, and graphing. Make sure we cover any and all of your questions concerning this as we are at the midway point-QUIZ- on Friday.

Homework: Page 563 all

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-13-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

I have heard from several of you that you did struggle with last night's homework. SO with that in mind, we will make sure we go over the work carefully. Please come in with your questions you have so those are cleared up also. We will make sure we cover linear functions, function rules, and the horizontal and vertical function exceptions. A lot of material to review today.

Homework: page 559 # 15-25 odd # 31-35 odd#
Bonus: On the top of your homework, write down that you read my blog today for a homework pass.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-12-09

Good Monday Morning,

Another week to learn. Yippee....
In math class we are plugging away with graphing functions. Today we are working on Linear Functions. What does linear remind you of? We will be working with function rules and getting equations using 2 variables into function form. Oh yeah, what is a function?

Homework: pages 558-559 # 2-13 all # 14-24 even #

Make this a great day.
Mrs. Charle McAtee

1-9-09

Oh Happy Friday,

Yeah, we made it to the end of the week! It seemed long even with the snow day on Wednesday.

In math class we are plugging away with graphing functions. Are you getting the hang of it? We'll be playing with function rules and graphing in class so bring in your laptops.

Homework: Enjoy your weekend.

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-8-09

Happy Thursday Morning,

I hope you all enjoyed your snow day yesterday.

In math class we will be going over functions and vocabulary associated with this. Range, domain, input, output, x,y, graphing, and function. We will review what makes a function and what a function is not. After reviewing the homework, we will move onto using our laptops to graph the functions we solved. We will move onward to scatter plots and the vocabulary related to those: positive and negative relationships and ordered pairs.

Homework: pages 547-548 #3-14 all

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee

1-6-09

Good Tuesday Morning,

From your comments, I know some of you are anxious about functions. Don't panic yet as they will become a bit more understandable today. We went over a few things about functions yesterday and will review them today to help cement the concepts in. X, domain, and input are the same things, while Y, output and range are also interchangeable. As some of you guessed, this will be leading up to graphing the ordered pairs(x,y) we solved in the homework. We will review last night's homework and continue on with the function rules and tables today. So hang on and keep an open mind in class today.

Homework: Page 543

Today is White Board Tuesday for a review on working with fractions and negative integers and the 4 operations. Anyone still struggling with these, needs to come in during tutorial.

Make this a great day,
Mrs. Charle McAtee

1-5-09

Oh Happy New Year to All,

It is nice to be back. I have missed all of you. I hope you got in lots of fun times while you were out.

In math class we are moving on with FUNCTIONS. This is a tricky section, but can be fairly fun once you catch the rhythm or patterns. The vocabulary is extensive and you will need to learn them- relation, input, output, function, domain, and range are a few to begin with. We will try to cover these and begin the work today in chapter 11.

Homework: page 543 # 11,13,14,15,16

Make this a great day,
Mrs.Charle McAtee