8th Grade BOSTON Update

January 9, 2012

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This is a reminder that the second installment of $25 for the Boston trip is due on January 20th.

I also wanted to give you a quick update on our fundraising efforts. As of today, we have raised over $12,000. However we still have a little over $15,000 to go, so we need to continue the good effort in raising the funds to ensure that we are able to go on this trip. We are currently selling the tickets for the Calendar Raffle. We will also be doing a bottle drive after the weekend of the Super Bowl and a Spaghetti Dinner, which the date is still to be determined. Please remember that each student does need to participate in at least three fundraisers or sell 20 calendar raffle tickets.

There has also been a change to the itinerary for the Boston trip. Blue Man Group was sold out and therefore we will be going to see Sheer Madness instead, which is a comedy whodunit, where the audience is part of the show.

As a reminder, the date for the field trip is from May 23-25, 2012. You can pay the remainder of your balance at any time. The third installment of $25 will be due February 24th and the final installment will be due April 6th. A full refund will be offered until April 1st. No student will be denied going on this trip because of financial concerns. If you need a scholarship, please let us know.

Below is the tentative itinerary for Boston:

May 23 7:00 a.m. Leave Milton Middle School
11:00 a.m. Arrive at Emerson College
1:00 p.m. Go to Museum of Science
5:00 p.m. Pizza at Emerson College
8:00 p.m. Sheer Madness

May 24 Small group exploration of Boston: Students will break into groups of 8-10 and visit different museums, such as the Mass Museum of Art, Franklin Zoo, Fenway Park, etc., based on their interests. Do you have any info about dinner that night – will this be on the students?
May 25 9:00 a.m. Leave Emerson College, walk Freedom Trail, eat lunch at Faneuil Hall
1:00 p.m. Boat cruise of Boston Harbor
3:00 p.m. Leave Boston
7:00 p.m. Arrive back in Milton
If you have any questions, please contact your student's team's Boston representative:

Aquila – Tom Keblin ext. 646 tkeblin@mtsd-vt.org
Cassiopeia – Joe Smith ext. 217 jsmith3@mtsd-vt.org
Pyxis – Jana Fabri. ext. 658 jfabri@mtsd-vt.org
Tucana- Amira Bakr ext. 678 abakr@mtsd-vt.org

Thank you,
Joe Smith

1.11 Humanities

Read for book groups.

January 11th, Tucana math

7th grade: page 53 A&B
Comparing and Scaling Assessment coming by the end of the week
8th grade: page24#7-34, page 25 #36-38.
collected page16# 31-34, page 19 5by5 dot paper with 8squares -
areas and sidelengths labeled (no irrational numbers as decimals)

January 10th, Tucana math

7th grade: page 58 & 59 #21-23
These are more complex problems with proportion and missing pieces which help review for the upcoming assessment on Comparing and Scaling. It may be as early as this Thursday.
Collected page 50 & 51
8th grade: page 23 # 4-6 is to be added to the dot paper we worked on in class. Tomorrow I will be collecting: pages 16#31-34, page 19 with 5by5 dot paper and 8 possible squares with areas and side lengths labeled, Notes with the radical and lists of n, n squared, and
the square root of squared.

1/9 Science

8th Grade- Model Plant/Animal Cells due tomorrow, 1/10.

January 9th, Tucana math

7th grade: proportions and unit rates are needed and should be provided
page 55#1&2, page 57#15-17
8th grade: Vocabulary: reciprocal, parallel and perpendicular
page 16 #31 graph the parallel and perpendicular lines using different colors
slopes of parallel lines are the same
slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals

January 6, Tucana math

7th grade: no new tasks
page 50&51 should done with proportion and solutions
(solutions can use Adrianna's method with the idenity or the crossproduct)
8th grade: vocabulary: irrational number, perfect square,
radical and hypotenuse (these are in notes)
Page 19 on 5by5 dot paper - 8 squares with the areas and
side lengths as whole numbers or radicals