Wednesday, November 17, 2010

General Announcements:

• If you ever notice something missing or wrong on the blog, comment to let me know about it - I don't always have the whole picture. -Grace
• Wed., 11/17: All citrus orders must be picked up. Someone from the class will be on hand during AM dropoff, midday (k-5) pickup, and afternoon (6-8) pickup until 4:30 to help you find your order and check it out. If you cannot pickup on Wed. 11/17, please contact me to make other arrangements.
• 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.

Math:

• On 3.8 sheet handed out today (Mixed # division), do even #s only. Work for these problems must be shown on separate paper.

Language Arts:

• Nada

Social Studies:

• Quiz Thurs., 11/18: Quiz on the geography of South Asia
• Due Thurs., 11/18: On two-page map handout, look at the list of South Asian countries on second page. Color each of the names, then color the country on the first page the same color as its name. On other map handout, identify countries and major bodies of water by name.

Science:

• Due Thurs., 11/18: In packet, read 94-101 and answer questions 1-3 on separate paper.

Spanish:

• Grade 7:

Moment of Zen:
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What if the largest countries had the biggest populations?

Curious folks decided to see what would happen if they lined up the lists of the world's countries in order by land area and by population, then, for each list number, map the name of the country with that population onto the shape of the country with that land area.

A couple things to notice:

• Four countries, the US, Yemen, Ireland and Brazil, have the same position on the population list as the area list.
• The South Asian countries, usually squished into a small corner of the map, occupy several of the largest areas, including Canada (India), Greenland (Vietnam) and Australia (Pakistan).