Thursday, September 9, 2010

General Announcements:

• Fridays: Bring sneakers, clothes to run in and water bottle for Frisbee!
• Mon., 9/13: Permission Slips for field trip to Camp Hi-Rock due.
• Wed-Fri, Sep. 15-17: Prisms field trip to Camp Hi-Rock in Great Barrington, MA: Students should arrive at the school at normal drop-off time on Wed., 9/15 and will return by 3:00 PM on Fri., 9/17. See packet handed out Fri., 9/3 for additional details.

Math:

• 7th & 8th Grade:
  • Due Mon., 9/13: Write your personal, annual goals for learning this year.

Social Studies:

• No homework

Science:

• Due Fri., 9/10: Take online Multiple Intelligences survey (http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/projects.php?id=42) Make sure to write down your User ID number so you can get at your results again.

Language Arts:

• Due Fri., 9/10: Use the public speaking guidelines and prepare to present your "C" book and project. Have your "audience" record a strength and a suggestion.

Spanish:

• Grade 7
  • Due Mon., 9/13 : 1 "trabalengua"
• Grade 8
  • No hay tarea (No homework)

Music:

• Due Next Tues., 9/14: Online, research what the world's oldest instrument is.

Moment of Zen

Reimagining Disney Princesses as Superheroes

This late night brainchild of casual artist Melissa Erickson takes the almost ubiquitous images of the Disney "princesses" and reimagines them as superheroes instead. There's a lot of different ways you could see this, but in all of them, it's a pretty interesting idea. What do you think? (click the image above to see a more extensive lineup)