Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 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.
  • Practice for Coffeehouse! Your act must be at least preliminarily screened by the end of this week!
  • Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop
Math:
  • 7th Grade:
  • Tonight, due Wed., Feb 12
  • Level 1: p.198, #1-5, 7, 13-17, 20
  • Level 2 p. 198 1-4, 8, 14-22 (even), 19, 21
Due Thursday: This weeks PoW


  • 8th Grade:



  • Grace's Group: 

    • due Wed., 2/12: in packet, finish last two sheets (p. 114, 5.5 Practice and p. 187, 5.4 Practice A)



  • John's Group:

    • due Wed., 2/12: Due Wed Feb 12Green Book, Inv4.2 Follow up, #2 p. 61

     Humanities:
    • Entire newspaper due Friday.
    • Reading log #5 assignment due 2/13
    Science:   
    • Due Wednesday, Feb 12
    • In the Physical Science Text: Read about Experiment Design in Chapter 2, pp.37-42
    • Bring in a video recording device (if you have one!) this Friday
    • 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!
    Atelier:
    • Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.
    Spanish:
    • 7th Grade:
      • complete el paquete para miércoles
      • prueba martes"-AR verbos"
    • 8th Grade:
      • retake irreg. verbos miércoles
      • cap. 4 y 5
    8th Grade Project:
    Moment of Zen:


    Seen recently in Tokyo, which is under a severe snowstorm warning for the first time in 13 years.

    Monday, February 10, 2014

    Monday, February 10, 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.
    • Practice for Coffeehouse! Your act must be at least preliminarily screened by the end of this week!
    • Coffeehouse, Smith Voc., Friday, Feb. 28. Watch this space for more details as they develop
    Math:
    • 7th Grade:We began a new Geometry unit on SIMILARITIES and TRANSFORMATIONS.Today, we investigated what it means for two objects to be geometrically similar to each other, and found that their sides (or parts) must be "in proportion" with one another.
    • Tonight:
      • In R&P Journal (also in the Textbook, p. 194-5, complete Activites 1 and 2; then, in the Textbook, p. 198, do questions 9 and 10


  • 8th Grade:


  • Grace's Group: 

    • due Tues., 2/11: in packet, finish last two sheets (p. 110, 5.4 Practice and p. 181, 5.3 Practice A)

  • John's Group:

    • due Tues., 2/11: Today we completed Inv. 2.4, and what we can tell about the shape of the parabola formed by the quadrartic equation, by the equation itself.
     Humanities:
    • One more side article due tomorrow.
    • Reading log #5 assignment due 2/13
    Science:   
    • Bring in a video recording device (if you have one!) this Friday
    • 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!
    Atelier:
    • Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.
    Spanish:
    • 7th Grade:
      • complete el paquete para miércoles
      • prueba martes"-AR verbos"
    • 8th Grade:
      • retake irreg. verbos miércoles
      • cap. 4 y 5
    8th Grade Project:
    Moment of Zen: