Quizzes were passed back Mon. Students who did not do well were encouraged to bring in a toy for our Holiday Toy Drive which is still ongoing for extra credit. I will also will be after school for extra help on Wed.
We finished Section 3 and homework for Mon. was to answer in complete sentences the 5 questions in the Section Review on page 100.
Tues. homework is to finish the Bikini Bottom Genetics packet that we have been working on in class.
Wed. and Thurs. will be spent on a review packet. Thurs. homework will be to use the review packet to study for a test on Fri. on Chapter 3- Sections 1, 2, & 3, covering pages through 100.

Mon. and Tues. of next week will be spent reading some current event articles and answering questions pertaining to them.
Wed. will be team activities in the four core classrooms.
May you and your families have a very wonderful Holiday!

Quizzes from Friday were passed back Monday. Homework was posted on the board to do page 93, 1-5. Section Review. Because it was not pointed out and we ran right up to the bell explaining codominance as it relates to Punnett squares, we will cover that assignment in class Tues. Those that missed the assignment can do it in class. Students will be asked to build on their knowledge of mitosis to understand the concept of meiosis-Section3 of Chapter3 which we'll start on Tues. Their assignment on Wed. will be to draw the cell cycle again but to show how a sperm and egg cell have the ability to half their chromosome count which they have learned to do with Punnett squares.
On Friday they will have a quiz on probability with Punnett squares with the connection to meiosis.
I am also encouraging students to bring in toys for needy families to support a school drive. A bonus will be added once to one quiz score to improve their average. This is a 7A team-wide effort from the four core teachers.

We quickly revisited Section 1(pages 80-85) of Chapter 3 by constructing a pet to apply our study of traits and alleles. Some students have to complete their paper pets for homework. We will be working on them tomorrow, however some classes will not meet due to our walk to the High School to watch a video entitled Rachel's Challenge.
There was a homework assigned on page 85 of the Section Review, questions 1-4 due at our next class meeting.
There will be homework assigned Wednesday from page 107 which will be finding the meaning of the key terms from Section2 from reading Section 2(pages 88-93) .
There will be a Punnett square quiz on Friday. Students should be able to set up a simple problem and show the outcome of the offspring in phenotype and genotype percentages.