Friday, January 28, 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
• Yoga Fridays - For the Fridays until February break, the Prisms should bring comfortable clothing for yoga class in the afternoon, and a mat if you have it. Last week we had enough mats for everyone if the two groups shared, but you may want to label your mat if you want to get the same one back.
• Wednesday, 2/2: Reception/Celebration of the Prisms' artistic work on the history of the Connecticut River Valley, 6:30-7:15 pm in the Atelier.
• Eighth Grade Project resource page updated 1/24, including project deadlines through the end of February and downloadable documents. Page will be updated as I get new information.

Math:

• All: Due Mon., 1.31: Math's Mates 2.6 according to usual protocol, including any attached N/A problems from 2.4 or 2.5.
• Test Fri., 2/4: Math's Mates Midterm 2 Test (covering material from 2.1-2.4) - Now and not then is the time for questions. You can email questions to Grace whenever at grace.mrowicki AT gmail.

Language Arts:

• Due Mon., 1/31: Have one book related to your research topic.

Social Studies:

• Nada

Science:

• Due Mon., 1/31: Type up your experiment report, following given format.

Spanish:

Moment of Zen:

Spiderman?

French daredevil climber Alain Robert freeclimbed the 450-foot tall Hang Seng Bank headquarters in Hong Kong earlier this week, nominally to draw awareness to the pollution of the densely populated city. Robert has climbed 85 other buildings around the world, including the second tallest building in the world, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after two previous attempts, which both ended with his arrest at the 60th floor. While he has been arrested and fined numerous times for climbing buildings, he's also been invited and paid to climb buildings on several occasions, notably to promote the British TV premiere of the movie Spiderman in 2003, when he was paid to climb the 312 foot Lloyd's of London building wearing a Spiderman costume.