Grades 7 and 8 with Ms. Osten, Mrs. Cronin, Mr. Deeble, and Mrs. Dearborn    General information - Week of 3/12 - 3/16  IMPORTANT CHANGE - RESEARCH NIGHT, MANDATORY FOR ALL 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS, HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM THURSDAY, MARCH 29 TO TUESDAY, APRIL 3.  Students should be at school by 5:15 and leave at 7:00.    CMTs continue this week.        The Basket Raffle is March 16.  The 7/8 basket themes are Game Night and Chocolate Indulgence.  Hope to see you there. There were two items of note on the message board at conferences.  The first is the end of the year trip to Boston on Thursday, May 24.  Please return the slip by March 9 giving your child permission to attend and indicating if you would like to join us.  The money is not due until May 17.  $45 per person. The other item of note is a 7/8 snack bar.  The students will be having a snack bar upstairs to raise money for a class gift to the school.  We are looking for donations of food items - crackers, fruit, cereal bars, pretzels, etc.  They do not have to be individually wrapped as the students have snack bags they can portion items into.  Timeline for Final Research Project - Science Experiment For help finding research topics, check out:  http://www.sciencebuddies.or Click Here 4/20     Topic and 5 questions due 4/27      30 Notes 5/ 4        Experimental Procedure Ms. Osten: Math - (Homework is listed on the day it is given and due the following class)     MSM 1 -          From week before  - none           Monday - pp 276 - 277          1-13, 17, 18         Tuesday - pp 280-281          1-25         Wednesday - pp 284-285          9-16                               pp 289-290          4-7, 14, 15         Thursday -          Friday - 6A Review        p 292         1-16, 18     MSM 2         From the week before - p 194         1-25 odds         Monday - p 199            1-25 odds         Tuesday - p 202           5-23 odds         Wednesday -          Thursday - 4B quiz in class       pp204-205 1-20          Friday - Correct quizzes 4A and 4B ------------------------------------------------------------------ Social Studies -      MONDAY - Early Inventors Project                          Time will be given in class to work on this group project.                          Presentations will be Thursday/Friday.      TUESDAY -      WEDNESDAY -      THURSDAY -      FRIDAY -       Mrs. Cronin: We are working on our simple machines project.  Check out the following hyperlinks for good information on simple machines. 6 simple machines &online quiz,  The Elements ofMachines, Levers, Levers,Inclined Plane, Simple Machines, Experiments with SimpleMachines, Scholastic Simple Machines Mr. Deeble: Prealgebra Algebra Geometry   Mrs. Dearborn: