Friday, May 27, 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
• Mon., May 30 - Memorial Day (no school)
• Tues. & Wed., June 7-8: Presentations of 8th Grade Projects, Prisms' 3rd Floor room and Tech Lab, AM (6/7 & 6/8)and from 6:30-8:30 PM (Tues., 6/7 only). Open to community.
• Wed., June 22: Eighth Grade Graduation
• Thurs., June 23: Last day of School for students (half day)
• Eighth Grade Project resource page updated 4/27, including project deadlines through the end of the project. Page will be updated as I get new information.
• Download Ukulele Club documents (links fixed) here.

Math:

Grade 7 & 8:
• Due Tues., 5/31: MM 3.6 according to usual protocol, including work for * problems on separate paper and any attached N/A problems from previous sheets.
• Test Wed., 6/1: Math's Mates Mid-Term 3 Test, covering material in ex. 3.1-3.4 - use those worksheets to review. Questions you got wrong make excellent review problems!

Language Arts:

Social Studies:

Science:

• Nada

Moment of Zen:

NASA Launches an Art Exhibit

...no, not into space

Opening at the Air & Space Museum in DC is a collection of art commissioned by NASA over the last 50 years to represent its varied explorations. The work ranges from classically representative (the collection includes a Norman Rockwell painting of astronauts getting dressed in their space suits) to much more abstract, as in Chakhaia Booker's sculpture commemorating the crew of Columbia, made out of salvaged rubber from the shuttle after it exploded in 2003.

Worth a look just to see what space research and exploration has meant to different people over the last 50 years.

Pictured above: Liftoff at 15 Seconds, 1982, by Jack Perlmutter/Courtesy of Smithsonian