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