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Hello middle school families!  My name is Gina Annunzio and I am so excited to start my first year as the middle school math teacher at St. Joseph Catholic School.  For the previous seven years, I was blessed to be a middle school math teacher (in addition to Religion) at Our Lady of Humility in Beach Park, IL.  While at OLH, I also was the 8th grade homeroom teacher, which included planning 8th grade graduation activities and Confirmation readiness. I was a high school math teacher for seven years after graduating from Elmhurst College. I earned a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Secondary Education. I taught part-time as a preschool teacher for three and a half years at Camp Crayon Preschool in Antioch when my children were in middle school and high school.

 

I have been married to a wonderful man for 30 years and have three amazing children. I like to go for walks, read, and listen to a Catholic app, called Hallow. I am so thrilled to join the St. Joseph School family. 

                             

About our math program:

 

We offer a very challenging math program at St. Joseph Catholic School.  All of our middle school students complete Glencoe Math's Course 1 (6th grade) and Course 2 (7th grade), and either Course 3 (8th grade) or Algebra 1. 

 

Each day students receive direct instruction, have opportunities to develop understanding in small groups, and work independently to master skills.  Homework will be given most days to help reinforce the skills learned in class.   

 

All of our students leave St. Joseph Catholic School with a solid foundation in mathematics and are ready for the challenges of high school math.

 

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Week at a Glance (9/2 - 9/5)

Starting Wednesday, September 3rd, all middle school students will be completing their first i-Ready Math diagnostic test. Please make sure your child gets a good night's sleep, eats a healthy breakfast, and encourage them to try their very best on the test! Make sure to come to school with a charged chromebook!

 

6th Grade Objectives:

  • Find products of decimals and whole numbers

7th Grade Objectives:

  • Subtract integers

8th Grade Gold Objectives:

  • Simplify real number expressions by multiplying and dividing monomials.

8th Grade Black Objectives:

  • Find Volume
  • Find surface area

Week at a Glance (8/25 - 8/29)

Thank you for a great first week, middle schoolers! Please keep in mind that I might "over plan" for the week, so we may not always meet every objective that I have planned.

 

6th Grade Objectives:

  • Identify the place value of a digit
  • Read a number in word form
  • Round a number to a given place.
  • Add and subtract decimals
  • Estimate the product of decimals.
  • Judge the reasonableness of the results of estimating products.

7th Grade Objectives:

  • Read and write integers, and find the absolute value of an integer
  • Add integers
  • Subtract integers

8th Grade Gold Objectives:

  • Write fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions
  • Write and evaluate expressions involving powers and exponents.
  • Simplify real number expressions by multiplying and dividing monomials

8th Grade Black Objectives:

  • Classify and use real numbers
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers/rational numbers
  • Percent proportions
  • Perimeter/Area
  • Surface Area/Volume