Some AVANT-GARDE scenes from class today...

Beliefs...

Click the link below to access the beliefs written by Savage Garden and Tarak McLain:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Hrn5kWgkP5WtHhqF9evJHVfTR9eWT0AMXHOMhagqdLw

homework for tonight...

Comm Arts:  Read 30 minutes and LOG it!  I was so happy that almost everyone had read last night!  GO 7th GRADE!!!  (grades will be taken at the start of class.....)
AND
finish your draft writing of 25 I believe statements.  I will post the samples from the kindergartener and the Savage Garden song to help you.... 


Social Studies:  Nothing due tomorrow.  Questions 1 - 8 at the end of the chapter will be due on Friday.  They really aren't very hard... and we'll have class time tomorrow to work on them.


Math/Course 2 - finish lesson 36 # 1 - 30.

Today's Quote

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that 


none of it has tried to contact us.


Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"


US cartoonist (1958 - )

Word of the Day!

Word 5
Avant-garde:  a group that creates or promotes innovative or unconventional ideas in a given field, especially the arts.

homework for tonight...

Communication Arts:  READ 30 minutes from your NOVEL and write it down (preferably in your reading notebook but even a scrap paper works - write down: title and pages read)
If you want to work ahead... Start writing your beliefs!  I am looking for at least 25 beliefs.  Think seriously about these and what has meaning to you. (not due tomorrow.... probably Thurday).


VOCABULARY quiz tomorrow.... : accolade, anomaly, acrid, acrimony and antidote!  


Social Studies:  We are working on reading chapter 5.  No homework at this time.


Math:  No homework (unless you still owe me lesson 35, evens)  TEST tomorrow!!!  You may work on solving the word problem at home!

This I Believe (30 Beliefs)

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1290793058486403014#editor

Word of the Day

Word 5:
ANTIDOTE:
An agent that counteracts something that is poisonous or otherwise harmful.

Scholastic message..

To those students waiting on a response from Scholastic.com....
My school email is not working right now - I can't get on from the internet.....
SOoooo
We may have to wait until Monday to see what they have to say about those mis-printed books
Sorry.  
I know it is hard to be patient!
have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!!!!
~Ms. Chanin

WORDLE! 11.22.11

Quote for TODAY...

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else


 up.



Mark Twain



US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Word of the day (#4)

W4...
ANOMALY: something unusual, unexpected, or different from what normally happens

homework for tonight: 11.21.11

homework is a little abnormal with so many students gone for Science Olympiad.  So here's where we are:


Communications Arts: Read 30 minutes and record in your Reading Notebook
ALSO:  If you have not turned in your "Duck on a Bike" story please make sure to have it by Monday after Thanksgiving - this will be your last chance to turn it in!


Social Studies (Montana history): Complete the Map Skills handout from chapter 5 if you didn't finish in class on Monday - maps on page 16 and 82 should help you!




Math - First section - make sure to bring Lesson 35 to class on Monday after Thanksgiving.  
Second section - nothing (we corrected L35 today)
If needed, please catch up on any unfinished work.  We will be taking Test 6 just after Thanksgiving.


See about half of you at school tomorrow!!!!
~Ms. Chanin

Quote for the Day...

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." 
-Alexander Woollcott

WORD of the DAY

W3 (on our way to 100!!!!)

ANGST - (noun) a feeling of anxiety and/or apprehension
(often refrenced as... teenage ANGST!)

RE-COMMITTING!

To those faithful 7th grade class blog followers; my apologies.  I have let the blog go unattended for a month or more.  

I could offer reasons... excuses even... but as a certain teacher over at Victor says "excuses only satisfy the giver"... so let's move on,.

I am re-committing to our class blog. We will use it as a scrapbook (kinda) of our year!  We will use it to keep track of what our homework is... what is going on when... 

and I will update it

EVERY DAY!

So check back often!  Comment when you feel like it!

(notice the new theme.... this is in honor of our fresh start!!!)

Link to ROCKET TV.....

www.lonerocktv.blogspot.com