Thursday, January 30, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3 (check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Friday, 1/31: Finish R&P Journal, p. 104, #1-6 using the Interest = Principal * rate * time equation (I = Prt) we looked at in class.
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Nada
• John's Group:
• Nada

 Humanities:

• Newspaper: 2nd side article due tomorrow
• Reading log #5 assignment due Monday, 2/3

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • paquete -ar verbos

• 8th Grade:
• preposiciones paquete

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Submitted without comment.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3 (check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Thursday, 1/30: Finish the 4.3 Practice sheet you began in class today (4.3 Practice A or B or 4.3 Enrichment & Extension)
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Test tomorrow, Thursday, 1/30. Use your Review Sheet and the key to study.
• John's Group:
• Finish "Properties of Exponents" packet begun in class today.

 Humanities:

• Newspaper: One main article and one side article. Due Thursday
• Reading log #4 assignment due Thursday

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • paquete -ar verbos

• 8th Grade:
• preposiciones paquete

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Submitted without comment.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3(check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Wednesday:  Practicing markup and discounts Chapter 4.3:  pp. 176-7, 
• Level 2:   # 1-3, 8,12,16,17,18-29
• Level 1 #1-3,5,7,11-17 (odd) 21, 22
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Ch. 3 Review Sheet: Do at least one problem from each section, plus 6 additional problems of your choice from the sheet (14 total). See key in email.
• John's Group:
• Practicing Exponential growth and exponential decay
• p.482, #31
• p.488-9  #11-25, odd, #34

 Humanities:

• Annotate "The Other Civil War" due Wed.
• Newspaper: One main article and one side article. Due Thursday
• Reading log #4 assignment due Thursday

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • 10 oraciones con verbos (then take out verbs)

• 8th Grade:
• prueba miércoles - España info

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

"Dark Forces" by Matthew J. Mahoney

Darth Vader, as styled in banana peels

Monday, January 27, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade: Practice with calculating discounts and markupscomplete R&P Journal, pp 98-99 exercises,
  then, in the textbook, pp. 176-7, do #4, 9, 14
  PoW handed out today - due Monday, February 3
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: Nada
• John's Group:
• John's Group: Practice graphing and writing exponential growth equations
  Complete class handout on exponential growth of cell phone use,
  then, in the text, section 8.5 (Exponential Growth Functions), do page 474, #57, and then p. 480,
  

  1-5, 15 and 17.

  PoW (will handout tomorrow - due Mon. Feb 3)

 Humanities:

• Reading log #3 due Thurs., 1/23.
• Plan for newspaper, due tomorrow.

Science:   

• Be ready to give your Genetics Pro/Con Speech
• DUE TUESDAY - TOMORROW!
  Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • earphones
  • traduce

• 8th Grade:
• earphones
• ser/estar sheet (2 sides)

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 40 notecards due Tuesday.
• Mentors due Jan. 30

Moment of Zen:

Thursday, January 23

Math

7th Grade:  today I gave you a TAKE HOME QUIZ,  to complete on your
own, and to turn in this coming MONDAY, JANUARY 27.

We all did the practice quiz today, found on page 171,  at the end of Chapter 4.2

I will also share with you a pdf  file of this quiz, if you misplace your copy.
ALSO DUE MONDAY: PoW
8th grade:

John's Group:
DUE MONDAY: Scientific notation practice, Chapter 8.4 in the textbook. Review the examples in 8.4, and then do the questions on pp. 473-4, # 1-15, 38, 40, 42, and  62.
ALSO DUE MON> PoW

SCIENCE

DUE MONDAY, 1/27
: Bring in a shoe box or a small box for your Mousetrap cars!

Wednesday, January 22

Wednesday, January 22

MATH
7th Grade:  NO MATH DUE TOMORROW, but...
Problem of the Week is due this Monday, January 27
(you should work on this tonight since there is no Math
or Science homework tonight!

8th Grade:
John's Group;
NO MATH DUE TOMORROW, but
Problem of the Week is due this Monday, January 27
(you should work on this tonight since there is no Math
or Science homework tonight!

SCIENCE:

No homework due tomorrow.

Some of you have to finish, or make up the Genetics Unit Science

Test.  I am here after school tomorrow, so unless I have made a 

plan with you, please make arrangements

to complete this test tomorrow!

FOR MONDAY, 1/27: Please bring in a shoe box or small box for storing

your mousetrap car!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade: Complete either Practice A (percent increase and decrease) or Practice B for homework
• 
  
• 8th Grade:Grace's Group:
• • Due Thursday, 1/23: Finish 3.5 Enrichment problems (about animals and legs), #1-5. Then create your own systems of equations problem involving animals with two different numbers of legs. Your scenario must indicate:
  • The two kinds of animals (specify the number of legs on each if it's not obvious; style points for animals with odd numbers of legs)
• 
  John's Group:
• Due Wed. 1/22Complete series of practice problems simplifying expressions with exponent
• pp 466-7, #19-30 (odd), 41,45, and 52
• Due Thurs.,1/23  Corrections for your test due!

 Humanities:

• Reading log #3 due Thurs., 1/23.
• Plan for newspaper, due tomorrow.

Science:   

• due Wed. Jan22: read over your Pro/Con genetics speech, and be ready to present it tomorrow!
• This will be the last activity for our Genetics Unit.  New Physics Unit to begin tomorrow in our ABC groups

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • earphones
  • traduce

• 8th Grade:
• earphones
• ser/estar sheet (2 sides)

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 40 notecards due Tuesday.
• Mentors due Jan. 30

Moment of Zen:

Computer generated images of animals in the womb.