Maths 11.29

7th Grade
Students took a quiz on rations, proportions and unit rates today. The quiz will be returned tomorrow.

8th Grade
Students continue to practice writing equations to model linear relationships. The following practice is due on Wednesday: 2ACE #1, 2, 7, 8, 35.

Maths 11.28

7th Grade
Students will take a quiz on unit rates on Tuesday. Be sure to review your notes and do some practice questions from the ACE section.

8th Grade
Students continue to develop their skills in writing equations to model linear relationships from text, tables, graphs and coordinate pairs. Be sure to complete question A from problem 2.2 before class on Tuesday.

Celebrating Home Catalog Fundraiser

Orders for the Celebrating Home catalog fundraiser are due this week. Please bring in your orders as soon as possible!

Science 11.14

Tomorrow, students will take a quiz on food webs, where they will be asked to create a food web to represent feeding relationships in an ecosystem. Review your notes on food webs!

11/9 Humanities

We are launching a research project which will build upon the work done during the unit on the American Revolution. Students have selected a revolution and are researching the who, what, where, when, how/why of it, as well as examining what impact the media has had on human involvement in that revolution. The product will be two-fold: a write-up of the research and a digital story to present the findings to the rest of the team. I anticipate this work taking us into the first week of December. For now, students are doing the bulk of their research in class so that I can support the process. Once the writing begins, there will be some out-of-class expectations. Check in with your son or daughter on the chosen revolution - there are some fascinating topics out there.

As always, students should be progressing through their spelling programs. For those in the formal program, we are on lessons 11-12 this week - to be quizzed next Tuesday (11/15). Please support your child in this effort by checking off on his/her spelling progress chart. Students have received a stark reminder that actually doing the lessons ahead of time has a direct correlation with quiz scores (and vice versa).

Conferences November 21 and 22

Dear Pyxis Families,

Educational research tells us that children benefit greatly from having meaningful conversations about their learning with important adults in their lives. To that end, we hope that you can attend a Portfolio Conference where your child will present to you artifacts of his or her learning from the first quarter – work from each class that he or she has thoughtfully selected to demonstrate learning and growth.

In addition to presenting artifacts of academic growth, your child will also discuss their progress with the Universal Habits we have been working on this year: Managing Self, Relating to Others, Constructing Knowledge, and Participating and Contributing.

For your convenience, we are scheduling conferences on the evening of Monday, November 21, and on the morning of Tuesday, November 22. Anyone is welcome – parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors. If no adult is able to attend on these dates, we will gladly make arrangements for you to conference with your child at another time.

Please visit http://bit.ly/pyxisconferences to indicate your preferred conference times, or you can use the form that was sent home with your child today. We will get back to you to confirm your scheduled conference time.

We look forward to seeing you!

Sincerely,

The Teachers of Team Pyxis:
Karen Allard
Nathan Caswell
Jana Fabri

11.1 Maths

7th Grade
Students continue building their skills in comparing ratios. The following practice is assigned: 2ACE #4, 5.

8th Grade
Students are practicing comparing linear and non-linear relationships in Problem 1.2. The following practice is assigned: 1ACE #1, 11.