Raise a Glass for Ray!

No homework over winter break!

Have a safe and happy holidays! See you in 2018!

Week 16 Student Activities: Ray School Announces

Starts Monday-Attendance Challenge

Please encourage students to attend school on time every day next week.

All students with perfect attendance for the week (Monday-Thursday) will be invited to a staff vs students basketball game.

Monday-Friday  -Schoolwide Project

RAH -Random Acts of Kindness at Ray

Monday - Student to Student in the same class

Tuesday - Student to Teacher and/or Support Staff

Wednesday - Student to Clinician, Resource Teacher, Office Staff, Safe Passage, Custodian, Lunchroom Staff or  Bus Driver

Thursday - Student to Family Member

Friday - Student to Student not in the same class or Free Choice

*Write a note, give compliment, be someone to a strange, help keep our school clean and the list goes on

Wednesday 

Winter Caroling 

8:55-9:10  First Floor (Pre-K, K & 1)

9:15-9:30  Second Floor (2, 3, 4 & DHH)

9:30-9:45  Third Floor (5, 6, 7 & 8)

Thursday 

Staff vs Student Game TBA

Winter Assembly Rehearsal @2pm

Friday

Class Winter Celebrations

Winter Assembly@ 9:15 a.m. 

This will be a K-4th grade assembly, 5th- 8th grade Auxiliary and Advisory students will be in attendance as well (Nobles, Albrecht, O'Connor, A. Walker, and  Collins). Only parents of K-4 will be invited to attend. 

Math Week 12-18-17 to 12-22-17

7th Grade: We add integers. We use number lines, vectors, and the idea of absolute value. We will also spend time making Infinite Fraction Trees.

8th Grade: Pythagorean Theorem! We finish this week! Helpful link at Magoosh. Also, Vi Hart's video about Pythagorus is great: What's the Deal with Pythagorus?

Homework for week 12-18-17 to 12-22-17

7th Grade Homework

8th Grade Homework

Box Tops

Math Week 12-11-17 to 12-15-17

7th Grade: We study integers. We study the vocabulary of additive inverses and absolute value. We order integers and add integers. Some really helpful videos can be seen at Virtual Nerd.

8th Grade: Pythagorean Theorem! All week! Helpful link at Magoosh. Also, Vi Hart's video about Pythagorus is great: What's the Deal with Pythagorus?

Homework for week 12-11-17 to 12-15-17

7th Grade Homework

8th Grade Homework

Winter Spirit Days: December 11-15, 2017

Monday - Crazy Day

Crazy Colorful Clothes 

Crazy Socks 

Crazy Hair

 

Tuesday - Pajama & Stuff Animal and Movie (3-3:45) Day 

 

Wednesday - Education T-Shirt Day 

Wear any school t-shirt or hoodie 

Staff eat lunch with students and share high school and college experiences

 

Thursday - Ugly/Beautiful Winter Sweater Contest Day (Prizes awarded in class) 

 

Friday - Twin or Jean Day

Announcing!!!

College Day!
Let's get our middle students excited about higher education! After speaking with our students during town hall meetings, they voted to wear college shirts on Wednesday and/or Green-Ray gear. If possible, can you please participate? There's more to come with this "College Bound Culture Movement" so stay tuned!

STEM Night: 12/12

Come join us for a fun night of Science Technology Engineering and Math on Tuesday, December 12th from 5:00 - 6:30 PM.  

There will activities for all ages. 

Our school Science Fair judging will be taking place in the cafeteria.

7th: Our objectives for the week are: Students can find distance measures using indirect measuring based on understanding similar figures. Specifically we are using scale and maps to find actual distances. Students can use scale factor to create a model--see post below: Scale Model Project

8th: We solve equation thinking about the idea of balance and "inverse" operations. Here's a helpful link for videos and practice activities: Balance Beam Equations

Homework for the week of 12-4-17 to 12-8-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

7th Grade Scale Model Project

7th:(Due 12-7-16) 

PROJECT: Create a Scale Model

You should build a model, draw a map, or create a blueprint of something you are interested in. Make a model of a building you think is cool. Create a diorama of a scene from a book or movie you enjoy. Make a map the neighborhood, or your walk to school. Create a blueprint of your bedroom. Use grid paper, legos, or whatever creative idea you choose. EXAMPLES BELOW!

You will need to determine and show the scale factor between the actual thing you model and the model you create and demonstrate an understanding through a written description of how you determined the size of objects or drawings in your model based on the actual thing you are modelling.

Please talk to Mr. A before 12-5-17 if you have any questions or concerns! We will use a LARGE part of class time 0n 12-6-17 to construct the models so start gathering resources.

Rubric: CLICK HERE!

Examples:

Video Help: 

Homework for the week of 11-27-17 to 12-1-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

Math Week of 11-27-17 to 12-1-17

7th: We are back to proportional thinking after our detour into data in preparation for science fair. Our objectives for the week are: Students can find distance measures using indirect measuring based on understanding similar figures. Students can use scale factor to create a model.

8th: We will think about solving linear equations using a "balance model". Here's a helpful link for videos and practice activities: Balance Beam Equations

REDUX: Science Fair Data Project (Due 11-21-17)--Math Week 11-13-17 to 11-21-17 (all the way to Thanksgiving break)

Science Fair projects are rapidly coming due! Mr. Albrecht will be reviewing and teaching data displays (graphs!) between now and Thanksgiving break. Students should already have gathered data and completed their science fair project experiments. After practicing with graphs this week, next week on 11-20-17 (7th grade) and 11-21-17 (8th grade), Mr. Albrecht will give students 90 minutes of math class time to create graphs for their science projects. Mr. Albrecht will grade student data and graphs using the linked rubric. I have also added links to tutorials for using Google sheets to display data and create a graph.

Data Project Rubric

Tutorial links for Google sheets

WikiHow

Google Support

Video help

HOMEWORK 11-20-17 TO 11-24-17

NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK! HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Report Card Pick-up 11-15-17

Report Card Pick-up 11-15-17 SCHEDULE for Mr. Albrecht Hrm 304

Please sign up for three preferred times for this day.  All conferences are 10 minutes in length on the 10’s with the first one beginning at 11:50 pm.  Conferences end promptly at 6:00 pm.  Please send back your choice forms as soon as possible to get your first choice. Mr. Albrecht will post and update meeting times on his at the link above at the end of the day Monday 11-13-17 and Tuesday 11-14-17 so parents can check what time they are scheduled for. Please feel free to email your responses as well: lalbrecht@cps.edu.

Toiletry Item Drive

Jahkil Jackson/Project I Am and Ray Student Council will collect items during National Homelessness week: 11/13 - 11/18.  The school toiletry item drive will be to create toiletry kits to be donated to shelters throughout the city.

Suggested items include:

Toothbrush

Toothpaste

pair of sock

face towel

soap

granola bars

first aid kit OR band-aids

Comb

lotion

Travel size hand sanitizer

Travel size conditioner

Travel size shampoo

Travel size lotion

Wipes

Mints

Gloves / Hats

Pocket tissue

Homework for week 11-13-17 to 11-17-17

7th Homework

8th Homework

Science Fair Data Project (Due 11-21-17)--Math Week 11-13-17 to 11-21-17 (all the way to Thanksgiving break)

Science Fair projects are rapidly coming due! Mr. Albrecht will be reviewing and teaching data displays (graphs!) between now and Thanksgiving break. Students should already have gathered data and completed their science fair project experiments. After practicing with graphs this week, next week on 11-20-17 (7th grade) and 11-21-17 (8th grade), Mr. Albrecht will give students 90 minutes of math class time to create graphs for their science projects. Mr. Albrecht will grade student data and graphs using the linked rubric. I have also added links to tutorials for using Google sheets to display data and create a graph.

Data Project Rubric

Tutorial links for Google sheets

WikiHow

Google Support

Video help

Homework for week 11-6-17 to 11-10-17

7th Grade Homework

8th Grade Homework

Math Week 11-6-17 to 11-10-17

7th: Seventh grade continues to work on percent as a proportional relationship. Students practice with percent-off sales and percent-on tips. They also learn about percent change-- increase and decrease. At the end of the week we will review the vocabulary of similar figures (they're proportional!) so we can begin studying scale and scale factor.

8th: Students practice with the distributive property and prepare to solve linear equations, model relationships with linear equations, and compare linear equations.

Troy's Toys!

Link for 7th grade class 11-1-17

Troy's Toys

1st Quarter Ends Nov. 2, 2017

The first quarter ends this week on Thursday, 11-2-17. Mr. Albrecht will only take make-up or redo work until the end of the school-day Tuesday, 10-31-17. There is no school for student on Friday, 11-3-17.

High School News

Kenwood Academy Open House

November 11th 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Admissions Open House - High School 
(Kenwood Auditorium)

Math Week 10-30-17 to 11-3-17

8th grade students will work on simplifying expressions using like terms.

7th grade students will practice with percents and then extend their understanding to use percents to solve tasks. Students will find percent increase and percent decrease.

Homework week 10-30-17 to 11-3-17

7th Homework 

8th Homework

Homework for week 10-23-17 to 10-27-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

Math Week 10-23-17 to 10-27-17

7th: 

Students use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems Students determine if a relationship between quantities is proportional using tables and/or linear graphs. Students understand that percent is a special proportional relationship out of 100.

8th:

Students find the slope of a line from a graph. Students find the slope of a line from two points. Students understand that slope is constant and is a measure of the rate at which a relationship changes proportionally (directly or partially).

PICTURE DAY TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 2017

PICTURE DAY TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 2017

Teen Summit

Homework Week 10-16-17 to 10-20-17

7th Grade Homework

8th Grade Homework

Math Week 10-16-17

7th Grade: 

• Students determine if a relationship between quantities is proportional using tables and/or linear graphs.

8th Grade:

• Students identify constant of proportionality and recognize it as the slope of the line representing the relationship
• Students know the 4 types of slope
• Students find the slope of a line from a graph

Math for Week 10-9-17 to 10-13-17

7th grade: Students will work on deciding whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship, e.g., by testing for equivalent ratios in a table or graphing on a coordinate plane and observing whether the graph is a straight line through the origin.


8th grade: Students will continue to work with numbers in scientific notation. Students will add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers written in scientific notation.

Homework for week 10-9-17 to 10-13-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

homework week 10-2-17 to 10-6-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

Math Week 10-2-17 to 10-6-17

7th: 
Students will show understanding of proportionality by converting between different units of measurement.Students find and use unit rates to solve tasks.

8th: 
Students know and apply the the properties of exponents. Students from convert scientific notation to standard notation and vice versa.

Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is starting a new project exclusively for Middle School Students (grades 6 – 8) the project is free and will take at HPAC.

The working title is the Middle School Art Shop. The program will start on Friday, October 13, 2017 and end on June 15, 2018 Hyde Park Art Center – 5020 S. Cornell 4 – 5:30 p.m.

The Middle School Art Shop will be a free program for up to 15 participants here at HPAC. The program will focus on young people to help them develop their artistic ability and to explore many areas of visual art. The culminating project will have the participants to create a painted mural that will be on display here at HPAC.

The Middle School Art Shop will take place on Fridays from 4 – 5:30 p.m. Please note that you will have to make arrangements to get your child to HPAC and pick them up.

To apply for the program you must reserve your space by 5 p.m. October 11, 2017 by calling Gregory Smith 773-324-5520 ext 1002 and bring the completed application with you (Mr. Albrecht has copies of the application here). There will be additional information needed that can be obtained the first day of class. 

Our fall fundraiser is underway!

Our fall fundraiser is underway!  You should have received an Affy Tapple order form with instructions in your student’s folder (if not, you can download them online here .  Order forms and checks are due Friday, October 13.  Please take orders from friends, family, neighbors and co-workers - you’ll be pleased to find many people want to support our school!  Incentives and prizes awarded to individual students and classrooms!

7th grade Screencastify link for 9-27-17

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eH_Q4-bFCidURIOEJEbUJsMGc/view

Homework week 9-25-17 to 9-29-17

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

Math Week 9-25-17

7th: Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. Need more info? CLICK HERE.

8th: Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. Need more info? CLICK HERE.

Homework for the week 9-18-17 to 9-22-17

7th grade Homework

8th grade Homework

Writing Contest from 57th Street Books

In anticipation of The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine (Available September 26, 2017), a never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip Stead and Erin Stead, 57th Street Books is proud to present our Unfinished Manuscript Writing Contest, open to young writers of all ages and imaginations. See the manuscript below, author bio below, and read on for rules for entry. And don't miss Philip and Erin Stead live in store on Thu. 10/12 6pm at 57th Street Books (RSVP and details here)! 

Amabel Bing was born October 31, 1904 in Normal, Illinois, though her upbringing was anything but. The middle (or so) child of Tad and Delphine Thistlefodder's nine and a half children (Delphine having claimed to be the biological mother of a "rather mopish" sack of flour till her unexpected death in 1912, when she conscientiously, if humorlessly, confessed to being legally blind in the final throes of facing down what she'd assumed was the mail but in fact, as bystanders confirmed from the start, was a small fiery meteor roughly the size of, well, Delphine). But I digress. After changing her last name (and who could blame her?), Mabel briefly attended the all girls Academy for Burgeoning Washing Maids at the insistence of her father, which, to exactly no one's surprise--except maybe her father's, who was about as unprepared as a newly widowed man at the turn of the last century could be for the amount of laundry amassed by nine children and a decidedly inanimate jute rug--was not really Amabel's thing. She quite literally sneezed at her father's coercions, allergic as she was to bicarbonate, and proceeded instead to imagine and write down much grander adventures than a stay at home life could afford, such as those that might take place on pirate ships (The Average Spyglass, 1931); haunted mansions (The Lackluster Candelabra, 1957); and, in her final story, unfinished at the time of her own death in 1983, a soon to be burglarized stagecoach, apparently (The Best Dagger). Only recently, somewhat unceremoniously, "discovered" under a ream of old Yellow Pages in a box labeled "Dog Food," The Best Dagger is believed to have all but reached its conclusion at the time of its mysterious abandonment. And while there is little debate concerning its source, scholars and enthusiasts alike can't help but speculate on Bing's intended/avoided climax. 

Who's in the stagecoach? Where is it headed? And why is the dagger in such a great hurry? What do you think?
Write your own ending and send to kidsbooks@semcoop.com by October 1, 2017 for a chance to win a signed copy of Mark Twain's never-before-published, previously unfinished children's story The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip and Erin Stead, get published in our children's newsletter, A Young Peron's Guide to 57th Street Books, and read your winning masterpiece in front of a live audience at ourOctober 12 event with Philip and Erin Stead (click here for details). Please keep your submission to around 300 words or less, and have fun!

Math Week 9-18-17 to 9-22-17

7th: Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities. Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units.

8th: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion, which repeats eventually into a rational number. 8.NS.2 Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions.

Ray School Announcments

1. OPEN HOUSE-- This Thursday, 9-14-17 from 4 to 6 p.m. The first hour is for parents and students to visit classrooms and talk with teachers. The second hour will be a state-of-the-school meeting with administration.

2. STUDENT TOWN HALL MEETINGS-- All students will meet with administrators for the first 15 minutes of the day on Mondays and Fridays. (8:45 to 9:00) These meeting give administrators a chance to make whole school announcements and reminders as well as hear from students about their Ray experience. The time also gives teachers contractual extra time  for planning, collaborating, and prepping for classes.

Homework Update (Week 9-11-17 to 9-15-17)

Due 9-15-17 

7th grade homework

8th grade homework

Math Week 9-11-17 to 9-15-17

Hello all,

This week both 7th and 8th grade students will work on:

• Students learn and practice with posted “Every Day” objectives (These are also the objectives we are working on with our arts partnership with The Revival and guest artist Jeff Gandy. The Every Day objectives are: Say Yes and be in the moment, take care of the ensemble, get each others' backs.)
• Students learn, develop, and practice with norms, expectations, and routines of class, 7/8th team, and school
• Students become familiar with forms, technology, and communication used in 7th/8th grades.
• Students review mean, median, mode, range
  
  

All of the above is to develop students into a community of learners with shared values around a growth mindset, working as an ensemble, and a love of learning