Welcome Back! I hope you all had a great holiday with family and friends.

UPDATES:

6th Homeroom: I have scheduled our trip to Montpelier for late January and will send out an e-mail with particulars by mid-December. We will visit the Vermont Historical Society Museum, the Vermont State House, and the Vermont Supreme Court. We will visit during the time that Susan Flint, a current 8th graders, is also there engaged as a page at the State House.

Reminders for Friday 6: Skating @ Vermont Academy rink

Nacho Day- lunch for $6

Forms for Ski Program due

6th Math: This week we will be working on finishing up work on decimals and getting ready for the chapter test through converting numbers into  scientific notation, extend knowledge of exponential notation and powers of ten and further practice of multiplying and dividing. Our next unit will be jumping into pre-algebra concepts of variables, patterns, formulas and graphs.

7th Math: Some of the students will be finishing up work with rates, ratios and proportions. Others will be working in pre-algebra translating words into algebraic expressions, evaluating expressions, and using formulas in a spreadsheet.

8th Math: The class will come together to work on learning how to use a graphing calculator to graph equations and to expand their understanding of statistics with a new measure of range: mean absolute deviation.