Thursday, March 20, 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.
• There is no school for students tomorrow, Friday, March 14.

Math:

• 7th Grade:  
• Due Fri., 3/21: 
• Level 1: Complete 5.6 Practice A handout
• Level 2: Complete Pg 1 and the even numbers of page 2 of your Reflection practice worksheet
• Due Mon., 3/24:
• In the Text, pp. 245 - 7, # 1-10. This practice is a cumulative review of some of the topics you need to be  familiar with! We will do this insteat of the PoW for a while...

8th Grade:

• Grace's Group
• Due Monday, 3/21, 2014:  Finish the silly spaghetti riddle (6.4 Extension) and 6.5 Practice A.
• John's Group: 
• Due Friday, 3/21: Quiz, p. 547, #1,3,4,6,8,10-13
• Due Monday, 3/24: Mixed Review, p.524, 82,84,87; p.546, 36-44 even, 46-48

Humanities:

• All
• Decide on your next novel by Thursday.
• Grade 7
• 15 notecards due Monday
• Grade 8
• First half of rough draft due Monday, 3/24

Science:   

• Due Friday, 3/21: Your printed out, color bar graph of Average Speed Data is due!
• Your analysis and conclusion outline is also (past) due!

Atelier: 

• Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
• 13 flashcards
• retake comida

• 8th Grade:
• Estudia el vocabulario 20 minutos
• 
  

8th Grade Project:

• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Characters from the Avengers as plush octopodes.

Wednesday, March 19, 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.
• There is no school for students tomorrow, Friday, March 14.

Math:

• 7th Grade:  R&P journal, P.130
• L1: 1-3, 4,6
• L2 :1-3, 4, 6-8

8th Grade:

• Grace's Group
• Due Thursday, March 20, 2014: Finish 6.4 Practice A, begun in class today, about simplifying radicals.
• John's Group: P. 544-5, #3,6-8,24-26

Humanities:

• All
• Reading log assignment #9 due Thursday
• Grade 7
• 10 notecards due Thursday
• Grade 8
• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21

Science:   

• Complete calculating your data error and significant differences...
• Due Friday: colored bar graph of Average speed

Atelier: 

• Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
• 13 flashcards
• retake comida

• 8th Grade:
• Estudia el vocabulario 20 minutos
• 
  

8th Grade Project:

• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Organ Collage

Click above to see Travis Bedel's collection of collage art integrating images of human organs with other natural elements like plants and birds.

Tuesday, March 18, 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.
• There is no school for students tomorrow, Friday, March 14.

Math:

• 7th Grade:  

8th Grade:

• Grace's Group
• Due Wednesday, 3/19: Complete Simplifying Radicals sheet.
• John's Group: 
• 
  

Humanities:

• All
• Reading log assignment #9 due Thursday
• Grade 7
• 10 notecards due Thursday
• Grade 8
• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21

Science:   
Today, Mar 17, you and your partner were to give me copies of your data sheet (including time and speed data) AND your calculations of error and whether you found a significant difference between each level's average speed!

Tomorrow we will go over how we use this data to draw scienctific conclusions about our results, and what it means for our hyothesis!

Atelier: 

• Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
• 15 flashcards
• retake comida

• 8th Grade:
• Hoja de trabajo del vocab, cap. 1-15
• 
  

8th Grade Project:

• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Cross Stitch microbes.

Almost as adorable as Giant Microbes.

Monday, March 17, 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.
• There is no school for students tomorrow, Friday, March 14.

Math:

• 7th Grade:  No homework tonight
• Today you got back some scored work from the last two weeks:
• tessellation exercise
• scaled drawing of your math text book
• your Quiz on similar figures
• We spent the rest of the class time making an entry in your rule book (What are Transformations?), and there was so time to do additional practice.

8th Grade:

• Grace's Group
• Due Tuesday, 6/18: Finish packet begun in class today, including 6.4 practice on the back, #1-6 only. None of your answers should contain decimals.
• John's Group: 
• due Tuesday, Mar 18:  p.536, #4,5,9, 21 practice
• We finished completing the square and deriving the Quadratic formula. Tonight's practice is to use this formula to find the exact roots of some quadratic equations.
• Question: what do you call an equation that has an x^3 in it? an x^4?

Humanities:

• All
• Reading log assignment #9 due Thursday
• Grade 7
• 
  
• Grade 8
• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21

Science:   
Today, Mar 17, you and your partner were to give me copies of your data sheet (including time and speed data) AND your calculations of error and whether you found a significant difference between each level's average speed!

Tomorrow we will go over how we use this data to draw scienctific conclusions about our results, and what it means for our hyothesis!

Atelier: 

• Borrowed scratchboard knives need to be returned.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
• 15 flashcards
• retake comida

• 8th Grade:
• La guitarra misteriosa: write up una lista de vocabulario nuevo
• 
  

8th Grade Project:

• First half of rough draft due Fri., 3/21
• Eighth Grade Project Deadline Calendar

Moment of Zen:

Happy Monday. Click here for a whole gallery of animals yawning adorably.