Friday, September 24, 2010

General Announcements:

• Due Thurs., 9/30: Share Your Hi-Rock Trip Photos! We have set up a Flickr group for the class's trip last week, which we will look at as a class during our class meeting next Thursday. For security reasons, it is a private, invitation only group. You will need a Flickr account to view or contribute to the group (if you have a Yahoo account, you already do). Prisms and their parents should let me know if you want an invitation to the group. Send an e-mail to gmrowicki AT hilltowncharter with the following information:
  1. Your name
  2. The e-mail address to which the invitation should be sent
• Read about the Prism's ongoing observations in defining intelligent here.
• We need tissues! Cold season is upon us and we need nice tissues for sore noses. If every Prism family donated one box of tissues, that would almost certainly get us through the worst of tissue season.
• Fridays: Bring sneakers, clothes to run in and water bottle for Frisbee!

Math:

• Grade 7 & 8:
  • Due Fri., 9/24:
    1. Complete Math's Mate 1.2 according to protocol discussed earlier (see 9/10/10 HW blog here for more detail on this). Complete all attached problems not attempted on 1.1. Make sure to show work for * problems on separate paper.
    2. Rework any CMP assignment returned to you for quality revision according to criteria discussed in class today.

Social Studies:

• Due Mon., 9/27:
• Finish your thank you card for the person from our trip to Camp Hi-Rock whose name you drew during class meeting. Cardstock will be provided tomorrow, or you may use your own materials (max. size is a 9 by 12 inch sheet of drawing paper, folded in half to 9 by 6 inches). Sign it from yourself but also "for the Prisms"

Science:

• Due Mon., 9/27: Shade in your sketch from Friday's river observation with colored pencils. Be sure to give your sketch context, i.e. don't just draw the frog, draw the rocks, water and plants around it.

Language Arts:

• Due Fri., 9/24:
  1. Complete evaluation sheet for Camp Hi-Rock trip handed out today.
  2. Have your independent reading book chosen—new to you and fitting one of the categories on the form provided you today in class. Read for 20 min. in this new book to you. Have book in class on Monday. (The books should be of a size that they can be carried in backpack and from class to class easily.)
  3. Complete any portfolio elements not completed with quality at this time.

Spanish:

• Grade 7:
  • No hay tarea
• Grade 8:
  • Quiz Fri., 9/24: Prueba sobre el vocabulario de "El pelo de pepe." (Vocab. quiz on "El pelo de pepe.")

Moment of Zen I don't think this is what they meant when they said that art imitates life, but this photo sure looks like an abstract painting. Taken from Robert Haas's book Through the Eyes of Vikings, this is just one of an impressive set of aerial photographs from around the Arctic Circle that make the Earth look like abstract art without being messed with in the least. Click the picture to see more from Haas's Arctic collection.