Monday, February 1, 2010

General Announcements:

• Friday, Feb. 5: Prisms' Coffeehouse! St. Mary's Church, Haydenville, 6-9 PM — Dinner, dessert & entertainment! Tickets now available for purchase! $5/person, $20/family
• Eighth Grade project documents available here, including Phase 2 calendar (updated 1/22/10).
• You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Tues., 2/2: Study Ch. 1-4 for a check-up test on Tuesday, 2/2. Complete "Additional Practice" on p. T-153 (handout): #2 &3. Also, answer #5-8 on p. 40 of CMP book. Use a cm ruler and find measurements to the nearest tenth of a cm. Show calculations clearly. You will need cm grid paper.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Tues., 2/2: Complete 2.3 Follow-up, #1 only, using all line segments from your assignment last night. You need a cm ruler for part (a). Use a calculator for part (b) to turn your answers in &sqrt; form into numbers rounded according to directions. Also, complete #8 on p. 23, #9 on p. 24, and #15 on p. 25. You will need dot paper and your assignment from last night.

Social Studies:

• None Assigned

Science:

• Due Wed., 2/3: "Experiments & Data" - Read Ch. 2.2 in Physical Science textbook (or photocopy of textbook) and answer #1-6 on p. 43.

Language Arts:

• Test Tues., 2/2: Study Grammar Lessons 6 & 7 on helper verbs, past/present participles, and action verb tenses (present, future, simple past) for test on Tuesday. There will be review questions as well on Lessons 1-5.

Atelier:

• Due Tue., 2/2: Complete Golden Spiral collage piece and bring to Atelier by noon.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen:

Axe Cop: Or, What Happens When a Five Year-Old Scripts a Comic

But not just any five year-old. The kid in question, Malachai Nicolle, happens to have an older brother, Ethan, who works as a professional comic artist. While hanging out at Christmas, Malachai, who had been running around with a toy fireman, told Ethan that he was Axe Cop. As Ethan asked more questions about who Axe Cop was and what he did, a story was born (click here for more about the origins of Axe Cop). The result is nutty in a way that threatens to totally fall apart at any moment, which, somehow, only makes the comic more engaging (I'll let you find out how Flute Cop evolves into Uni-Avocado Cop).