Thursday, January 30, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3 (check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Friday, 1/31: Finish R&P Journal, p. 104, #1-6 using the Interest = Principal * rate * time equation (I = Prt) we looked at in class.
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Nada
• John's Group:
• Nada

 Humanities:

• Newspaper: 2nd side article due tomorrow
• Reading log #5 assignment due Monday, 2/3

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • paquete -ar verbos

• 8th Grade:
• preposiciones paquete

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Submitted without comment.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3 (check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Thursday, 1/30: Finish the 4.3 Practice sheet you began in class today (4.3 Practice A or B or 4.3 Enrichment & Extension)
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Test tomorrow, Thursday, 1/30. Use your Review Sheet and the key to study.
• John's Group:
• Finish "Properties of Exponents" packet begun in class today.

 Humanities:

• Newspaper: One main article and one side article. Due Thursday
• Reading log #4 assignment due Thursday

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • paquete -ar verbos

• 8th Grade:
• preposiciones paquete

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Submitted without comment.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  PoW handed out Monday - due Monday, February 3(check your make-up folder if you were absent Monday!)
• due Wednesday:  Practicing markup and discounts Chapter 4.3:  pp. 176-7, 
• Level 2:   # 1-3, 8,12,16,17,18-29
• Level 1 #1-3,5,7,11-17 (odd) 21, 22
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: 
• Ch. 3 Review Sheet: Do at least one problem from each section, plus 6 additional problems of your choice from the sheet (14 total). See key in email.
• John's Group:
• Practicing Exponential growth and exponential decay
• p.482, #31
• p.488-9  #11-25, odd, #34

 Humanities:

• Annotate "The Other Civil War" due Wed.
• Newspaper: One main article and one side article. Due Thursday
• Reading log #4 assignment due Thursday

Science:   

DUE TOMORROW!

• Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • 10 oraciones con verbos (then take out verbs)

• 8th Grade:
• prueba miércoles - España info

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 55 notecards due Tuesday.
• First meeting with mentor due Jan. 31
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

"Dark Forces" by Matthew J. Mahoney

Darth Vader, as styled in banana peels

Monday, January 27, 2014

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE.
• Lowell trip Fri., Jan 24. We will be departing the school at 6:45 am and returning around 5:00 pm. Students will need to bring a lunch.
• Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop

Math:

• 7th Grade: Practice with calculating discounts and markupscomplete R&P Journal, pp 98-99 exercises,
  then, in the textbook, pp. 176-7, do #4, 9, 14
  PoW handed out today - due Monday, February 3
• 8th Grade:
• Grace's Group: Nada
• John's Group:
• John's Group: Practice graphing and writing exponential growth equations
  Complete class handout on exponential growth of cell phone use,
  then, in the text, section 8.5 (Exponential Growth Functions), do page 474, #57, and then p. 480,
  

  1-5, 15 and 17.

  PoW (will handout tomorrow - due Mon. Feb 3)

 Humanities:

• Reading log #3 due Thurs., 1/23.
• Plan for newspaper, due tomorrow.

Science:   

• Be ready to give your Genetics Pro/Con Speech
• DUE TUESDAY - TOMORROW!
  Bring in a shoebox or other small box to store your mousetrap cars!
  (talk to your mousetrap car teammate so that one of you brings in a box - Thank you!

Tech:

• 
  

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • earphones
  • traduce

• 8th Grade:
• earphones
• ser/estar sheet (2 sides)

8th Grade Project:

• Take notes. 40 notecards due Tuesday.
• Mentors due Jan. 30

Moment of Zen: