Thursday, January 6, 2011

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
• Eighth Grade Project resource page up, including project deadlines through Jan. 12 and downloadable documents. Page will be updated as I get new information.

Math:

• All:
  • Due Fri., 1/7: Those who have to take a retest next Monday (1/10) are to show me problems you have worked though and had corrected by in study/math homestudy time.

Language Arts:

• Due Fri., 1/7: Read in your independent reading book for 20 minutes.

Social Studies:

• Some kind of mindfulness practice or writing about one piece of the Eightfold Path? Can someone fill me in on this, it wasn't on the board.

Science:

• Due Fri., 1/7:
  • Fill in the blanks on the yellow sheet delivered Wednesday afternoon.
  • Note change made Th., 1/6: you are doing #10 in addition to the assignment from yesterday: Review Questions on photocopy of p. 279-290: skip vocab. section (first column on p. 279), then answer 1, 4, 6-8, 10, 11, 12.

Spanish:

• Completa sopa de letras/búscapalabras

Moment of Zen:

Muppets with People Eyes

Count one more point for Photoshop. With new movie The Muppets coming out this fall, they seem to have crawled into the public consciousness in the best possible ways. Beyond the numerous recent Muppet mashup videos and the movie itself comes this blog of photos of Muppets edited to have human eyes. Uncanny.