Tuesday, February 12, 2013

General Announcements:

• Friday PE: Wear or bring clothes/shoes to move in indoors.
• 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

Humanities:

• Due Wed., 2/13: Finish your novel about South Africa (Cry, The Beloved Country or Chain of Fire), complete reading log and come ready to discuss.

Math:

• Big Ideas Math Website: choose your color/name of book.
• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
Grade 7
• Due Wed., 2/13:
  • Level 1: textbook, p. 266, #5-13 odd
  • Level 2: Finish Ant & Caterpillar. If done, start "Squaring a Greek Cross"
Grade 8
• Due Wed., 2/13: textbook, p. 234, #1-6, 11-17

Science:

• Nada

Coffeehouse:

• Due Fri., 2/15: Script for your Dr. Seuss skit due to your group members and room leader (Grace, Beth, John) via Google Docs

Spanish:

Grade 7
Grade 8

8th Grade Project:

• Due Mon., 2/25: 100 notecards (total) on topic due.

Moment of Zen

Elementals for the Whole Periodic Table?

Cartoonist Kaycie D. has been comping up with characters to represent each of the elements of the periodic table since her high school Chemistry class. Many years later, she's come up with characters personifying each of the 112 elements of the periodic table. She's illustrated each with a brief description of the element, which usually explains why she chose to draw the character the way she did.