Thursday, October 21, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

General Announcements:
  • Wed., 10/27: Día de los muertos: Join us for a pot-luck Day of the Dead celebration from 6:30 to 8 PM in the All-School Space.
  • Citrus Sale! - Fruit Website down as of 5 PM today (and probably a while before) - the sale is still on, tech problems should be straightened out tomorrow. See details, access printable documents HERE
  • Read about the Prisms' 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
    • Due Fri., 10/22: Study for first part of Check-up test tomorrow. Write the answers to the Reflection Questions discussed in class.
    • 7B: Due Fri., 10/22: Finish #6 on p. 26, do 2.3, part A1 only.
  • Grade 8
    • Due Fri., 10/22: #18 on p. 30

Language Arts:
  • Due Fri., 10/22: Revise! Revise! Revise!

Social Studies:
  • Ongoing:
    • Continue researching your era of the River.
    • Make well-formed notecards (according to model) with information from your sources.
    • Make sure you have Bibliography card for each resource you use, following these citation formats.

Science:
Spanish:
  • Grade 7 & 8:
    • Due Thurs., 10/21: Review Project Details, Documents and Resource Sites posted on the blog Day of the Dead page.
    • Due Fri., 10/22: Begin researching Latin food you may bring as part of the pot luck (see Food Resource sites on Day of the Dead page). Comment on blog post with what you may bring.
    • Due Mon., 10/25:
      • Collect boxes you may use for your altar: check home, cardboard dumpster, grocery store.
      • Have completed:
        • arch
        • photograph of your ofrenda subject
        • decorative cloth to cover boxes for altar

Moment of Zen:

Why Does the Internet Love Cats?


Click any of the kitties above to read the folks at Mashable's many theories.

1 comment:

  1. El dudo... Er... Matt... >_>October 21, 2010 at 7:17 PM

    LOLcatz shall win teh warz...

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