Tuesday, October 26, 2010

General Announcements:

• Last Day for Citrus Orders: Tomorrow, 10/27See details, access printable documents HERE
• Citrus Online Orders fully functional until Friday, 9AM! Click the grapefruit on the sidebar to visit our sale's site!
• Thurs., 10/28: Field trip to Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners Falls in the AM. Students will arrive at school at the regular time and, hopefully, be back in time for lunch.
• Call for Drivers Thurs., 10/28 (AM) - We still need 3-4 more parent volunteers to drive 13 students to Turners Falls and back Thursday morning.
• 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.
• 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 Wed., 10/27: Complete 3.1 on p. 37
  • Grade 7A: Finish 2.3 and Follow-Up #2 only
• Grade 8
  • Due Wed., 10/27: Complete the two Order of Operations questions given to you at the end of class today.

Language Arts:

• Due Thurs., 10/28:
  • Read "Hamish McTavish is Eating a Bus" by Gordon Korman in your short story book. Write 3 well-edited quiz questions with answers.
  • Bring in your Literary Parade costume. Check it in with Grace Thursday morning.

Social Studies:

• Due Wed., 10/27: Turn in 5 new notecards following notecard protocol (incl. Quote, Topic Heading, Source #, Your Name, Page #) and 2 copies of the source for these quotes.
• Ongoing:
  • Continue researching your era of the River.
  • Make sure you have Bibliography card for each resource you use, following these citation formats.

Science:

• Nada

Atelier:

• Due Wed., 10/27: Hard copy of an image (photo, painting, drawing) of the river during your era.

Spanish:

• Grade 7 & 8:
  • Day of the Dead page
  • If you plan to stay after school to help set up for the celebration, you need a note signed by your parents giving you permission to do so. Deena will provide a snack for her willing workers.
  • Due ASAP:
    • Decide what dish you will bring for the pot luck Wed. night. Comment on blog post with what you're bringing. We already have a lot of desserts, so think about dinner foods!
    • 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: >

12 oz KING SIZE Soda!

This 1950s soda ad highlights changing ideas about serving size over the last 50-60 years: in many places a small soda is 20-30 oz. Click to read more about it at Sociological Images.