Wednesday, September 8, 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 Thurs., 9/9: Redo Math League corrections on separate paper.
  • Due Thurs., 9/9: Complete the sheet handed out today by interviewing a parent about the ways they use make during the course of a week.

Social Studies:

• Due Thurs., 9/9: 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

9/7/2010: UMass Amherst students make the world's longest sushi roll

420 feet of California Roll: 650 sheets of nori (seaweed), 200 pounds of sushi rice, 200 pounds of crab, 100 pounds of avocado, 100 pounds of cucumber, 2 pounds of sesame seeds, 5 gallons of soy sauce 6 pounds of wasabi Video of the sushi feat