Tuesday, September 7, 2010

General Announcements:

• Tue., 9/7: Return signed green checklist.
• 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 Wed., 9/8: Work for another 20 min on Math League sheet begun in class on Friday. First, work through any corrections on the sheet returned to you, then go on. Make sure to show all work for both corrections and new work on a separate sheet of white paper. Use additional sheets, prepared the same way (folded into eighths) if necessary.

Social Studies:

• Due Wed., 9/8: Add two more items to each column on the sheet beginning our examination of how human use of the Connecticut River has changed over the last 400 years.

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 Thurs., 9/9: Return Community Compact, signed by you and a parent.

Spanish:

• Grade 7
  • Due Thurs., 9/9 : Los dibujos de los sonidos vocales ("Vowel sounds" drawings)
• 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

How Long Is A Year?

About two meters, according to this conceptual timepiece designed by German-based Norwegian industrial designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen. A round knitting machine, ticking off one stitch every half hour, one round per day, this uncanny timepiece produces a knitted tube about two meters (~6' 4") in the 365 days of a year.