Thursday, April 25, 2013

General Announcent:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Fridays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.

Humanities:

• Grade 7: Final hero essay due Fri., 4/26. Email to Anna at alogowitz@smith.edu when complete.
• Grade 8: Eighth grade project due Mon., 5/6
• Due ASAP: Action plan worksheet.
• All: Read "One Hundred Eggs" and make inferences.

Math:

Big Ideas Math Website: Choose your level/color

Grade 7:

Due Fri., 4/26
• Level 1: textbook, p. 410, #10-18 evens, 27
• Level 2: textbook, p. 409-411, #3-6, 14, 18, 23-25, 29, 31

Grade 8

• Due Fri., 4/26: Handout, Ch. 7 Test A, all problems

Science:

• Great job on your Fair presentations!

Español:

Grade 7:
Grade 8

Music:

8th Grade Project:

• Due Mon., 5/6: Project due.

Moment of Zen

Lunar Eclipse Collage

Explanation: The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section and is most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. But the complete cross section is larger than the Moon's angular size in the stages of an eclipse. Still, this thoughtful composite illustrates the full extent of the circular shadow by utilizing images from both partial and total eclipses passing through different parts of the umbra. The images span the years 1997 to 2011, diligently captured with the same optics, from Voronezh, Russia. Along the bottom and top are stages of the partial lunar eclipses from September 2006 and August 2008 respectively. In the rightside bottom image, the Moon is entering the umbra for the total eclipse of September 1997. At left bottom, the Moon leaves the umbra after totality in May 2004. Middle right, center, and left, are stages of the total eclipse of June 2011, including the central, deep red total phase. During today's brief partial lunar eclipse seen only from the eastern hemisphere, the Moon will just slightly graze the umbra's lower edge. - Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA
Image Credit & Copyright: Igor Vin'yaminov

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

General Announcent:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Fridays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.

Humanities:

• Grade 7: Final hero essay due Fri., 4/26. Email to Anna at alogowitz@smith.edu when complete.
• Grade 8: Eighth grade project due Mon., 5/6
• Due ASAP: Action plan worksheet.
• All: Read "One Hundred Eggs" and make inferences.

Math:

Big Ideas Math Website: Choose your level/color

Grade 7:

Nada

Grade 8

• Rien:

Science:

• Thursday, 4/25: Renaissance/Golden Age Science Fair!

Español:

Grade 7:
Grade 8

Music:

8th Grade Project:

• Due Mon., 5/6: Project due.

Moment of Zen

STOOPID TALL: One Big Bike

Built for LA Cycling Event CicLAvia on a dare, this bike, nicknamed "STOOPID TALL" and "Big Boy" is 14½ feet from the seat to the ground - about 17 feet from eye level - and weighs over 100 pounds. It took builder Rick Hall about 12 hours of work to complete the structure, beginning with an old Huffy beach cruiser and some metal tubing. Hall and STOOPID TALL rider Richie Trimble are currently trying to construct and ride the world's tallest tandem bike.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

General Announcent:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Fridays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.

Humanities:

• Grade 7: Final hero essay due Fri., 4/26. Email to Anna at alogowitz@smith.edu when complete.
• Grade 8: Eighth grade project due Mon., 5/6
• Due ASAP: Action plan worksheet.
• All: Read "One Hundred Eggs" and make inferences.

Math:

Big Ideas Math Website: Choose your level/color

Grade 7:

Due Wed., 4/24
• Level 1: Finish your 100 coin flips, keeping record of how many times it comes up heads after 1, 10, 20, 50 and 100 flips.
• Level 2: Finish Ch. 9 Pretest, textbook, p. 416 all.

Grade 8

• Due Tues., 4/24: Activities #1-4 on 7.1 handout (Volume of Prisms)

Science:

• Due Wed., 4/10: Your completed project.

Español:

Grade 7:
Grade 8

Music:

• Due Thurs., 4/11: Practice "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and, if you're playing recorder for the Renaissance dance, practice your part for this also.
• Practice your other recorder song, if still necessary.
• If you've lost or are confused by your music, see this Google Doc which contains the sheet music and links to Soundcloud to recordings of the music you can play along with.

8th Grade Project:

• Due Mon., 5/6: Project due.

Moment of Zen

This Picture is actually a room full of objects

The image is only able to be seen from a specific viewing point. Click to read more about how the image is created and see pictures of it looking like a rather mundane, if cluttered, room.