Families please join us on Friday, June 8th if possible

Hello Tucana Families! We cannot believe the end of the year is upon us! It has been a pleasure to work with each and every one of your students. We will be hosting a final Learning Celebration this Friday, June 8th. We would like to invite you to attend Team Tucana's Futurist Convention on Friday from 8-9:50am. This convention will include the products created by students during our Futurology unit. Students studied the past and present trends of a topic of their choosing, and used that information to create a prediction of how that topic will be different in the future. Students will explain their predictions and justify those claims using evidence from the past and present. The convention will take place in rooms 209, 210, and 213. You are invited to attend for any portion of time, whether that be for 15 minutes on your way to work or if you'd like to stay for the entire convention to see the work of all our students. We hope to see you then!

May 31st Tucana math
We are working on an integrated unit, Futurology, were the students are expected to bring learning from each subject to the project they are choosing. Please talk with them about the project and what they would like to present.

Students in both grades have been given time to correct assessments given on May 18th.  These are now in Power School.  If you student has a raw score of less than 85 points I suggest they do corrections.

We are also working with rational numbers and I will be asking students to work with me.

5/21 Science

7th Grade Students- received back their scored Ecoscenario projects.  Parents/Guardians should ask their son or daughter to see the rubric.  Students can make corrections and improve their scores.  They also received back a quiz today called Midsummative 8.  Students can make corrections on this as well.  

7th Graders

Please return signed permission slips for the "Power in Unity" days (Wednesday, May 23rd to Friday, May 25th)  We are asking for parent/guardian permission for a walk on Wednesday from the Middle School to the Elementary School, a hand over hand moving brigade and walk to Bombardier Park on Thursday and a field trip to Echo Science Center and voyage on the "Spirit of Ethan Allen" on Friday.  Read the packet carefully and returned a signed copy to your advisory teacher as soon as possible. 

Friday, May 18th, Tucana math

Grades 7 & 8 the two handouts on rational numbers (1-6 on each) should have been submitted.

Permission slips for the 7th grade unity days are needed.

Both grades will be having check-ups on Friday and both have numbers 1-6 with work on rational numbers due tomorrow.  Some have turned these in with the work shown and others need to finish them.

7th grade: page 35#7, page 37#11-14, page 38 #16 should be completed
8th grade: page 54#3-5, pages 55&56#9&10 should be completed

Last Day of School & 8th Grade Celebration

It's amazing how fast time flies!  The last day of school will be on Tuesday, June 12th.  Students will be served lunch before being dismissed shortly after 12pm on that day.

The 8th grade celebration will also take place on June 12th at 6pm in the MMS/MHS auditorium.  We hope to see all of our 8th grade students and their families as we commemorate their hard work and efforts during their time at Milton Middle School.  If you have any questions, please email one of the team teachers for more information.

abakr@mtsd-vt.org
rdecicco@mtsd-vt.org
sehret@mtsd-vt.org
sendres@mtsd-vt.org
amacbeth@mtsd-vt.org

5/14 Science

7th and 8th grade students will have a quiz tomorrow.  Students should review their notes and recent activities to prepare for it.  If they have any questions, I'll be available through the teacher help page on the wiki or they can see me during reads and needs.

7th grade: vocabulary: slope
page 35#7, page 37#11-14, page 38#16
8th grade: vocabulary: exponential decay, decay factor, decay rate
page 50&51, 4.2 Fighting Fleas
Both grades:The first 6 problems for adding and subtracting rational numbers and the first 6 problems for multiplying and dividing fractions are due Thursday, May 17th.
Bits and Pieces fraction work was returned today.

May 11, Tucana math

7th & 8th: Please show your work on the following two handouts:
 Skill: Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers  (1-6)
Skill: Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers (1-6)
These will be collect Thursday, May 17th

7th grade: On Monday, May 14th page 28A, page 29B, and page 30A will be collected

May 9&10,2012, Tucana math

7th grade: page 28 A, page 29 B, page 30 A

5/9 Science

Tomorrow, 8th grade students will have the second and final day of NECAP testing.  The test will cover science content from grades 5-8.  They should get plenty of rest and eat something for breakfast to be prepared for the exam tomorrow.

May 8th, Tucana math

7th grade: page 29 B and page 35#7
8th grade:  Vocabulary: scientific notation
Page 53#1&2, page 55# 8

May7th, Tucana Math

7th grade: vocabulary: y-intercept (0,b), coefficient (m)
page 28 A
grade8: page 49 A-E, page 41 #21 - 23

Friday, May 4th, Tucana math

7th & 8th:  Drawing of multiplication and fraction problems.  Handouts pages 17&19 (Finding LCD)
Challenge: use primes and factor trees to find the LCD, possibly venn diagrams also

May 2nd, Tucana math

7th grade: page 42#35-37  work with linear equations and PEMDAS
8th grade: vocabulary: compound growth
page 37A-D

May 1st, Tucana math

7th grade: page 32#3, page 34#5 and please make a graph
Challenge problem: page 44#43
8th grade: page 39#9, page 40#10-15, page 40#16&19, page 40#17 (exponential & linear)
page 41 #20.

4/30 Science

7th grade- Students will present their ecoscenario projects on Weds, 5/2.  A final draft of their individual report is due Friday, 5/4.

8th grade- Students should draw their F1 generation Larkeys.  They should also try to answer the question "why did all F1 offspring look the same?"

April 30th, Tucana math

7th grade: Collected Bits&Pieces Additional Practice Investigations 1&2
               Review: page 26 A-D ( this was done before vacation and we reviewed it today
8th grade:   Collected Bits&Pieces Additional Practice Investigations 1&2
               Review: page 34
New: Vocab: growth factor and growth rate, Page 36# A-D

Thursday April 19th, Tucana math

7th grade: page 24-26 the portion that should be done is a graph with Henri and Emile on the same co-ordinate plane , x-axis needs to go past 30 seconds and y-axis needs to go past 75 meters
8th grade: page 39#3-8