Wednesday, October 27, 2010

General Announcements:

• 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.
• 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 & 8:
  Due Thurs., 10/28:
  • Complete Math's Mate 1.6 according to usual protocol, highlights of which include:
    • No calculators
    • Show work for * problems on separate paper
    • Complete any N/A problems from 1.5 on attached sheet

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:

• Ongoing:
  • Continue researching your era of the River.
  • Make sure you have Bibliography card for each resource you use, following these citation formats.

Science:

• Grade 8:
  Due Thurs., 10/28:
  • Answer questions 1-5 on River Logging worksheet.
• Grade 7:
  Due Thurs., 10/28:
  • Answer questions 1-6 on River Logging worksheet.

Spanish:

• Grade 7 & 8:
  • Disfrutar nuestra fiesta para el día de los muertos.

Moment of Zen:

Las guerras de estrella para los muertos

For Day of the Dead, Chicano artist José Pulido has created a set of Star Wars-themed drawings inspired by traditional drawings for the holiday of the partying dead. Click above to see more.