General Announcements
- Spirit Week is THIS WEEK!
- Thursday - Hat Day
- Friday - Class Color Day (wear Black and White)
- Friday night - THE DANCE!
- Thursday - Hat Day
- Friday - Class Color Day (wear Black and White)
- Friday night - THE DANCE!
HOMEWORK:
Math:
7th Grade:
- P
- L1:
- L2:
- L3:
- POW
8th Grade:
- John's Group
- DUE FRIDAY APRIL 10
- Cumulative Review ("Standardized Test Practice") P. 323-325 #1-16
- Grace's Group:
- Finish what you started in class.
Humanities:
Literature Study:
- Read "The Ancient Tree" and "One Night Lake" Due Tomorrow
All:
Grade 7:
- Bring in your green fair project with your interactive by Monday
Grade 8:
- Entire draft due 4/10 (minimum 2500 words)
Science:
All
- DUE FRIDAY 4/10
- Analysis question #1 (e- graph) and #3
Grade 7
Grade 8
Atelier:
Spanish:
Grade 7:
- retake ser/estar quizzes Jueves
- Traduce de la pelicula
Grade 8:
- Escribe la descripcion de tu persona
Tech:
- n/a
Music:
- n/a
UPCOMING TESTS/DUE DATES:
7/8:
7TH GRADE:
8TH GRADE:
- 8th Grade Project Draft due 4/10
MOMENT OF ZEN:
April 8th is "Draw a Bird Day!" From the DAB-day website:
"In 1943, Dorie Cooper was a 7 year old living in England. Her mother took her to a hospital in to visit her uncle who was wounded in the war. While they were there, Dorie's uncle was very distraught, having lost his right leg to a land mine. In an attempt to cheer him up, she asked him "Draw a bird for me, please" Even though he was unwell, he decided to do as Dorie asked. He looked out his window and drew a picture of a robin.
After seeing her uncle's bird picture, Dorie laughed out loud and proclaimed that he was not a very good artist, but that she would hang the picture in her room nonetheless. Her uncle's spirits were lifted by his niece's complete honesty and acceptance. Several other wounded soldiers also had their day brightened by the event and every time Dorie came to visit thereafter, they held drawing contests to see who could produce the best bird pictures. Within several months, the entire ward's walls were decorated by bird drawings.
3 years later, Dorie was killed after being struck by a car. At her funeral, her coffin was filled with bird images that had been made by soldiers, nurses and doctors from the ward where her uncle had been. Ever since then, those men and women remembered the little girl that brought hope to the ward by drawing birds on her birthday, April 8th.
Draw a Bird Day was never declared an official holiday, but it grew through those soldiers and medical personnel and their families. Today, it is celebrated world wide as a way to express joy in the very simplest of things in life and as a way to help soldiers everywhere forget war and suffering even if only for a short time."
Here is my bird! Draw a bird and email it to me and I'll post them for tomorrow's Moment of Zen.
HOMEWORK:
Math:
7th Grade:
- P
- L1:
- L2:
- L3:
- POW
8th Grade:
- John's Group
- DUE FRIDAY APRIL 10
- Cumulative Review ("Standardized Test Practice") P. 323-325 #1-16
- Grace's Group:
- Finish what you started in class.
Humanities:
Literature Study:
- Read "The Ancient Tree" and "One Night Lake" Due Tomorrow
All:
Grade 7:
- Bring in your green fair project with your interactive by Monday
Grade 8:
- Entire draft due 4/10 (minimum 2500 words)
Science:
All
- DUE FRIDAY 4/10
- Analysis question #1 (e- graph) and #3
Grade 7
Grade 8
Atelier:
Spanish:
Grade 7:
- retake ser/estar quizzes Jueves
- Traduce de la pelicula
Grade 8:
- Escribe la descripcion de tu persona
Tech:
- n/a
Music:
- n/a
UPCOMING TESTS/DUE DATES:
7/8:
7TH GRADE:
8TH GRADE:
- 8th Grade Project Draft due 4/10
MOMENT OF ZEN:
April 8th is "Draw a Bird Day!" From the DAB-day website:
"In 1943, Dorie Cooper was a 7 year old living in England. Her mother took her to a hospital in to visit her uncle who was wounded in the war. While they were there, Dorie's uncle was very distraught, having lost his right leg to a land mine. In an attempt to cheer him up, she asked him "Draw a bird for me, please" Even though he was unwell, he decided to do as Dorie asked. He looked out his window and drew a picture of a robin.
After seeing her uncle's bird picture, Dorie laughed out loud and proclaimed that he was not a very good artist, but that she would hang the picture in her room nonetheless. Her uncle's spirits were lifted by his niece's complete honesty and acceptance. Several other wounded soldiers also had their day brightened by the event and every time Dorie came to visit thereafter, they held drawing contests to see who could produce the best bird pictures. Within several months, the entire ward's walls were decorated by bird drawings.
"In 1943, Dorie Cooper was a 7 year old living in England. Her mother took her to a hospital in to visit her uncle who was wounded in the war. While they were there, Dorie's uncle was very distraught, having lost his right leg to a land mine. In an attempt to cheer him up, she asked him "Draw a bird for me, please" Even though he was unwell, he decided to do as Dorie asked. He looked out his window and drew a picture of a robin.
After seeing her uncle's bird picture, Dorie laughed out loud and proclaimed that he was not a very good artist, but that she would hang the picture in her room nonetheless. Her uncle's spirits were lifted by his niece's complete honesty and acceptance. Several other wounded soldiers also had their day brightened by the event and every time Dorie came to visit thereafter, they held drawing contests to see who could produce the best bird pictures. Within several months, the entire ward's walls were decorated by bird drawings.
3 years later, Dorie was killed after being struck by a car. At her funeral, her coffin was filled with bird images that had been made by soldiers, nurses and doctors from the ward where her uncle had been. Ever since then, those men and women remembered the little girl that brought hope to the ward by drawing birds on her birthday, April 8th.
Draw a Bird Day was never declared an official holiday, but it grew through those soldiers and medical personnel and their families. Today, it is celebrated world wide as a way to express joy in the very simplest of things in life and as a way to help soldiers everywhere forget war and suffering even if only for a short time."
Here is my bird! Draw a bird and email it to me and I'll post them for tomorrow's Moment of Zen.
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