General Announcements:
- Fri., 4/8:
Main luggage for DC must be brought to school for check in. Any item you will need over the weekend (especially toiletries like toothbrushes) should be packed in the small bag you bring on Monday.
- Due ASAP:
DC Trip Medical Consent form. This must be turned in even for students not taking medication. Please return all completed forms either in the box marked Confidential or in the Completed forms file under Prisms DC Field Trip.
- You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.
Math:
- 7th & 8th Grade:
- Due Thurs., 4/8: Math's Mates 3.7, work for * problems and last week's N/A problems on a separate sheet of paper. Begin with #s wrong from 3.6.
Social Studies:
- Due Fri., 4/9: Complete Grandparents & Special Friends invitations. Mail by Sat. 4/10.
Science:
- Due Thurs., 4/8:
- Reflection on Dan Levy's genetics presentation this morning.
- Complete color diagram and questions (*) about our plants and pollination.
Language Arts:
- Due Thurs., 4/8: Choose an independent reading book for the trip to DC. Place it into your luggage for Friday's check-in.
Moment of Zen:
Cool Thought For A Hot Day: Glacier Farming
It may sound a little like something out of
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but the art of growing artificial glaciers has been in practice for hundreds of years in the
Hindu Kush and
Karakoram mountains of Central Asia (both spurs of the
Himalayas). Glacier engineers manage runoff from natural glaciers to use as more accessible water storage. From a land where language has just as many words to describe vertical movement as horizontal movement, water that stays in one place is a luxury not underestimated. Click the picture to read more about how one goes about engineering a glacier, how a glacier can have "gender," and see more pictures of glaciers taken from space.
(Also see: Wired
's Gallery of "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space" where the article's pictures, including the one above, come from.)
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