Ray Spirit Week Starts next week!

12/16/19, Monday - Ugly, Beautiful Sweater Day

12/17/19, Tuesday - Character & Role Play Day OR Mixed-Up Clothes

12/18/19, Wednesday - Floor Color War Day  & Ray Warrior Family Community Night, Winter Wonderland

12/19/19, Thursday - Pajama, Story, Movie & Stuffed Animal Day

12/20/19, Friday - Dance Party, Sports, Snowball Day

*Sweater Day - Take class photos and present fun awards (write categories on the board or project from a screen)

*Character Day - Students can wear like their favorite book or movie character (must be school appropriate). Set aside for students  play charades or role-play. Staff, you can play in the teacher's during your lunch break. Or just be mixed up with clothes that don't match!

*Floor Color Wars

Annex - Yellow 

1st Floor - Green

2nd Floor - Red

3rd Floor - Blue

*Ray Warrior Community Night: story time, cookie decorating, choir performance and arts & crafts

*PJ Day - Onesie Fun, movies in class and/or auditorium on the big screen. Hopefully, our popcorn machine will be available. Grade Level Story time in the library (schedule forthcoming) 

*Friday - AM Sports/PM Dance Parties/Make paper snowballs & enjoy!

Ray Family Night!

Math Week for 12-9-19

ALL: The 7th graders are doing a Winter Wonderland (we missed our Haunted House due to the strike!) on Wednesday 12-18-19, 4-6 p.m. as part of our Ray Family Night series.


We need your help with decorating supplies! Click here for a link to our requested donations list!


The theme of the Family Night will be T'was the Week Before Winter Break. There will be our Winter Wonderland, story time, a Chicago Children's Choir performance, and cookie decorating.


7th: We will finish our unit on proportionality with looking at proportional graphs. Key ideas are that a proportional graph is a line graph that is straight (linear) and goes through the origin.


8th: Meet slope! We will look at how similar figures help us define slope and then use slope to start conceptually thinking about equations of lines-- that lines are just a collection of infinite points! Woah.

Homework for week 12-9-19

7th Grade


8th Grade

Parent Portal Training

Math Week 12-2-19

ALL: Progress reports go home on Friday, December 13. Reminder to all students that almost every assignment can be redone or corrected for more credit! Also, bonus assignment on Google Classroom is due December 6.

7th grade: We will continue with constant of proportionality and how it shows up in equations. We will then use equations of proportional relationships to solve tasks. At the end of the week we will also start learning about the graphs of proportional relationships. It's the math of things like hot chocolate. On the side we will review stem and leaf plots.

8th grade: We will explore how the concept of similarity in mathematics works. We will then use that conceptual understanding to build an understanding of slope and eventually, rate of change.

Homework for week 12-2-19

7th grade


8th grade