welcome to 7 th grade math with mrs. weatherhead

Welcome to 7th grade Math With Mrs.

WeatherheadE-mail: cweatherhead1@kleinisd.net

Phone: 832.249.5156

http://classroom.kleinisd.net/

webs/cweatherhead1

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General Expectations

• Be in your seat when the tardy bell rings.

• Sharpen your pencil before class—never when I am talking.

• Bring your completed homework to class each day

• Raise your hand to ask questions, and ask questions often

SuppliesBring to class each day

• Homework

• Pencils (sharpened before class)

• Interactive Notebook

• Red checking pen

Daily Procedures

• Warm-Up (must make it up if absent)

• Warm ups will be done in the Interactive Notebooks and graded each 6 weeks.

--Use to study for tests

• Check homework

• Lesson

• Work on homework (if time)

Grading Guidelines

• Major (tests.)Our test days are Tuesday and Friday.-60%

• Daily (quizzes, graded assignments, etc.)-30%

• Homework-10% (there will be homework every night—even Fridays.)

-PLEASE check gradespeed for current grades- it is your child's responsibility to make sure they are passing!

Homework Scoring• Must have visible thinking• Homework grades are entered daily and separately.• Late work will be scored as follows:

one day late–half credittwo days late—NO CREDIT

• If you are absent, your homework must still be completed within one day.

Tutoring is available on an appointment basis at 8:20 am on

Thursdays. Please view the online tutorials provided by the publishers of the textbook first.

They can be quite helpful.

If your child fails a test:

They MUST do test corrections & those corrections MUST be signed by a parent in order to Re-Test.

The original test and the Re-test grades will be averaged together.

The highest possible grade will then be a 70%There will be one day that they can re-test. It will be

before school at 8:20. If they cannot make it before school they can test during their lunch.

Thank you for coming!

• Websites for textbooks• Math 7 & Math 8• http://my.hrw.com

• User name hilde2• Password mustangs