Wednesday, September 25, 2013

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Citrus Sale ongoing until Monday, 9/30!
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due : Thursday, September 26
  • Record and Practice Journal pgs. 23-25   Do all the activities, and answer all the questions on the Coordinate Grid examples
  • Bring in Battleship games you have from home! 
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Thurs., 9/26: Finish 1.4 Activity on handouts (solving for a variable in a geometric formula).
  John's Group
  • Due :  Lesson 1.7 Practice C, p 77 # 9, 11, 15
  • Lessons 1.6-1.7 Problem Solving workshop, p. 81  #1,2

Humanities:

• Due Thursday, 9/26: Reading Log #7. Begin Reading Log #8 for Monday.

Science:

• Due :

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: Create 15 flashcards of classroom objects. Picture on one side, Spanish on the other. ¡No inglés!

• 8th Grade: 8 dibujos, 8 párrafos on separate pieces of paper.

Moment of Zen:

Actual Photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
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• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due : Wednesday, September 25
  • p. 33 in a our text (www.bigideasmath.com if you forgot your textbook!)  #32-33, 37, 39
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Wed., 9/25 : Finish Quiz corrections and complete Practice 1.3B, #3-8
  John's Group
  • Due : Wednesday, September 25
  • Complete all the questions for Project: Watch it disappear, which includes a 1 paragraph summary, as specified in the handout

Humanities:

• Due :

Science:

•  Due :Tomorrow, Wednesday 9/25
• Group C!  Bring in water shoes or boots, or waders - and wear a pair of shorts.  We are going to be gathering samples of riverbed-dwelling insects with Kurt Heidinger, for our annual "bioassessment" of the Mill

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen:

Monday, September 23, 2013

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Wednesday, September 25: Rapid bioassessment in Science class. Dress or bring clothes to go in the river.
  
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Tues., 9/24: Record & Practice, p. 22, #1-11; textbook, p. 32, #26-31
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Tues., 9/24: Finish Fraction Coefficient worksheet and do textbook p. 28-29, #5-19
  John's Group
  • Due :

Humanities:

• Due Thurs., 9/26: Read book and complete reading log #7.
• Test Wed., 9/25: Finish review packet and study.

Science:

• Due :

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: Hoja de trabajo (worksheet)

• 8th Grade: 2 hojas de trabajo y el cuento
  

Moment of Zen:

Radio Time Capsule: September 21, 1939
Seventy-four years ago this past Saturday, DC-Area radio station WJSV recorded their entire broadcast day. Much like today, there's music, news, sports, and ads, but this was the pre-television Golden Age of Radio, so there were also soap operas, comedy shows, educational shows, game shows and an address from president Roosevelt on the situation in Europe (1939 = WWII, before official US troop involvement). Check out the programming, available in bite-sized segments at the Internet Archive by clicking above.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
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• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Fri., 9/20: Complete Record and Practice Journal pgs 15-17, then, in the the Textbook, pg 26-27:
    choose either
    • A.(more challenging) - #1-7, 30-44(even), 39,46-48
    • B. 1-15, 20-23, 30-34 (even), 39, 40, 45
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Be ready for quiz Tomorrow (Fri., 9/20):
  • Write an equation based on a scenario
  • Identify independent and dependent variables in a scenario
  • Solve for a variable in an equation with variables on one or both sides of equation
  • Find a break even point by setting equations equal to each other (Deciding which choice is most cost-effective for a situation)
  John's Group
  • Due Fri., 9/20: Chp 1,pgs 49-50, #7,9-14,24,30-32

Humanities:

• Due Monday, 9/23: Read book and complete Reading Log #6

Science:

• Nada:

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen:


Librarian Stephen Kemple of the Cincinnati Library, on duty. Click to read more.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

General Announcments:

• If you notice anything missing or wrong, please comment below. I don't always have the whole picture -Grace
• Citrus Sale Ongoing until 9/30
• Community Day Tomorrow, 9/19: We will be up at the field, so dress accordingly.
• Mondays: Wear or bring comfortable clothes for PE. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
• Due: Quiz today - No homework tonight. You can continue to work on the Problem of the Week.
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Thursday, 9/19: Finish all problems on Rose Sale handout.
  • Quiz on Friday!
  John's Group
  
  
  • Complete the quiz for tomorrow; restrictions on calculator use apply!

Humanities:

• Due Thursday, 9/19: Read book and complete reading log #5.

Science:

• Complete the worksheet we worked on today on the Organelles of a cell, and use the text handout I gave you to help you;
  see this link for a Shephard software tutorial that will help,too!
   http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/health/anatomy/cell/plant_cell_tutorial.htm

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: Estudia las expresiones

• 8th Grade: 2 hojas de trabajo y el cuento

Moment of Zen:

Coins painted to look like pop culture figures: see more at Tales You Lose

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due :
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Wednesday, 9/18: Finish 1.2 Practice A Sheet that we began in class today.  
  John's Group
  • Due :

Humanities:

•  Due Wednesday, 9/18: Practice for role play using rubric.
• Finish deed paragraph and share with Beth by tomorrow.
• Read book and complete Reading Log #5. Due Thursday.

Science:

• Due :

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: 10 Flashcards - classroom expressions. No English: Picture on front, Spanish on back.

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen:

From an Ali Allmosawi's An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, which uses cartoons with cute animals to illustrate a number of common logical fallacies. The whole book is available to view online (and for free!) here.

Monday, September 16, 2013

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. We will be up at the field.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  
  • Due Tuesday, 9/17: pg. 18-19 1-7, 20-26 (even), 27-31 (odd) then do the Quix (a practice) on Page 21 in the text.
  • Quiz on absolute value, adding/subtracting integers, finding the range,on this Wednesday, Sep 18.
    
• 8th Grade:
  Grace's Group
  • Due Tues., 9/17: Finish solving equations with variables on both sides on handout begun in class today.
  John's Group
  • Due Tues., 9/17:
    • CAN YOU GUYS FIND ANY MEASURING CUPS AT HOME we can use for 1 week? - Great!
    • Complete Problems 1-6, and 8 found on Worksheet 1.5C (do these on separate, lined paper), for tomorrow
    • We'll have a quiz on the book chapters 1.1 - 1.6 this Wednesday, 9/18

Humanities:

• Due :

Science:

• Due :

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen: Action Archaeology! These researchers from the UK's Newcastle University are part of a team researching Bronze Age tools and weapons. They decide that one of the best ways to examine possible advantages and liabilities of these weapons, replicas of ones used in the British Isles and western mainland Europe 3000-4000 years ago.