Mr. Seland's School Stuff

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Announcements
Grade 8 Midterms:
* LA midterm Wednesday, February 8 (Day 4), periods 1 and 2
* Math midterm Monday, February 12 (Day 6), periods 1 and 2

Science 8S
Assignment: p. 206 #1,2, 3; p. 207 #1, 6, 7

Math 8S
Assignment: Dividing fractions pages 1, 2, 3 even # questions

Science 7X
We started classifying structures today.

Math 7X
Assignment: Study for midterm.

PE 8S
Today: push pass, chest pass, bounce pass, 3 on 3 tournament

Digital Image Creation
We finished up our fruit animals

Web Page Design
The students started the "Pretty Pets" website.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Announcements
Grade 8 Midterms:
* LA midterm Wednesday, February 8 (Day 4), periods 1 and 2
* Math midterm Monday, February 12 (Day 6), periods 1 and 2

Science 8S
Assignment: p. 206 #1,2, 3; p. 207 #1, 6, 7

Math 8S
Assignment: 4 multiplying fractions worksheets are due tomorrow

Science 7X
Assignment: Assignment: text p. 257 questions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 due Tuesday.

Math 7X
Assignment: Integer Review worksheet side 1 due Tuesday

Digital Image Creation
We started working on Fruity Animals today.

Web Page Design
We finished off our Tentacles Website today.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Announcements
Grade 8 Midterms:
* LA midterm Wednesday, February 8 (Day 4), periods 1 and 2
* Math midterm Monday, February 12 (Day 6), periods 1 and 2

Science 8S
Today we finished up "What is Light" and started on "Reflection." The students are doing their disease presentations tomorrow.

Math 8S
We are working on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Assignment: handout questions 1-15.

Science 7X
We watched a short video on an all natural Rube Goldberg machine, did a quick write-up on our "Keep It Warm" lab from yesterday, and finished up topics 7 and 8 of our Heat and Temperature unit. Assignment: text p. 257 questions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10. Due Monday.

Math 7X
We continued our review for our midterm exam next week. Yesterday we reviewed whole numbers. Today we reviewed decimals. Assignment: decimals handout

PE 8S
Today we played King's Court 3 on 3 basketball.

Video Game Design
We added some diamonds, doors and bonus coins to our game.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Science 8S
No science today.

Math 8S
We had our fractions quiz today. Sheet I/J is due for tomorrow.

Science 7X
We finished watching "An Inconvenient Truth" today. Good movie.

Math 7X
No math today.

PE 8S
We started 3 on 3 baskteball.

Digital Image Creation
We learned the Hue, Saturation, Brightness tool today.

Web Page Design
We started on a sample company website - Tentalcles.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Science 8S
Assignment: Our big unit 2, topic 7 project is due on Monday. Worksheet: What is Light and Turn out the Light is also due Monday.

Math 8S
Quiz Monday on naming fractions, mixed and improper fractions, reducing fractions. Assignment: 4 pages (8 sides) on adding and subtracting fractions due on Monday.


Science 7X
We started watching the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" today. This if for Topic 7: Sources of Thermal Energy and Topic 8: Conserving Our Fossil Fuel Resources

Math 7X
No math today.

Digital Image Creation
We worked with the rubber stamp tool today.

Web Page Design
We started using the NVU web page editor today.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Science 8S
Assignment: Our big unit 2, topic 7 project is due on Monday. Today's worksheet: What is Light and Turn out the Light is also due Monday.

Math 8S
Quiz Monday on naming fractions, mixed and improper fractions, reducing fractions. Assignment: 4 pages (8 sides) on adding and subtracting fractions due on Monday.

Science 7X
We are continuing to work on Thermal Energy Sources.

Math 7X
We had our algebra test today.

PE 8S
More basketball.

Digital Image Creation
Today - distortions!

Web Page Design
We wrote a javascript program that solved math problems for us.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Science 8S
Today we continued to work on Topic 1: What is Light. Assignment: Our big unit 2, topic 7 project is due on Monday. Today's worksheet: What is Light and Turn out the Light is also due Monday.

Math 8S
Quiz tomorrow on naming fractions, mixed and improper fractions, reducing fractions. Assignment: 4 pages (8 sides) on adding and subtracting fractions due on Monday.

Science 7X
We are continuing to work on Thermal Energy Sources.

Math 7X
We have an algebra test tomorrow.

Video Game Design
We added lives and and enemy ship to our Galactic Mail game.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Science 8S
The students had their last in-class day to work on their topic 7 projects. Assignment: Title pages due Monday. Topic 7 projects due a week from Monday.

Math 8S
We converted between mixed numbers and improper fractions using fraction pizzas, and with math shortcuts. Assignment: Finish 4 pages of mixed<=>improper conversions.

Science 7X
We had our topics 1-6 test today.

Math 7X
No math today.

Digital Image Creation
We had an assignment catch-up period today.

Web Page Design
The students finished off their HTML tables assignment.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Science 8S
We are working on our health projects, and started title pages for the next unit.

Math 8S
Assignment: Finish 2 naming fractions handouts. Quiz Thursday.

Science 7X
Assignment: Topic 6 Readers Workshop due Wednesday. Topics 1 - 6 test Thursday.

Math 7X
Assignment: Worksheet p. 24 questions 11-20 for a C; 11-30 for a B; 11-39 for an A

Video Game Design
We got our rockets flying in Galactic Mail!

Monday, January 08, 2007

Announcements
Happy New Year! Thank you for the wonderful Christmas gifts. I put on a few pounds just from eating the chocolate.

Science 8S
I handed back the unit tests and the 3D cell projects today. We started a project today on health conditions. No homework.

Math 8S
We started our fractions unit today. It will go for about a month. Assignment: 2 naming fractions worksheets.

Science 7X
Assignment: Finish topic 6 Readers Workshop for Wednesday. Study for Topics 1 to 6 test on Thursday.

Math 7X
Assignment: Handout p. 24 Part A: all, Part B: 1-10

PE 8S
We started basketball today. Dribbling, ball handling, shooting.

Video Game Design
We started a new game today, Galactic Mail