The Willow Weekly: Dynamic Dialogue 2/8/13

Happy Friday Dynamic Team!

Upcoming Events: Explo Two and Term Four ends February 14^th

PD Day, No Student Attendance – February 15^th

Presidents’ Day – No School – February 18^th

Important Information:

English –

Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org

Math –

We have started learning the concepts: Percents, Ratios and Proportions. The students are doing fine with this unit (Comparing & Scaling) because I have been connecting the concepts to what they have learned prior to this unit. Please check the parent portal at the end of next week, I’ll have the math grades updated.

Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org

Science –

This week in Dynamic Science the students reinforced the concepts of global convection currents of the oceans and atmosphere, humidity, dew point, and began developing the concepts of states of matter, freezing/melting points, boiling, evaporation/condensation points, and compare and contrast climate and weather.

Today the students completed for the fourth time the Weather Unit formative quiz. This is a Quia online quiz (www.quia.com/web) which covers the concepts of the entire weather unit. They will take the quiz in class about once a week so they can see how they are doing with their understanding of the concepts. Please ask your student how they improved on the QUIA quiz today. The students may log in anytime they want to take the quiz as often as they want to check themselves.

The links for the course websites are listed below.

Course Websites:

4^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330004

5^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330001

6^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330002

7^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330003

If you have any questions or comments please let me know

Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels daniels.mark@wgmail.org

314-918-4603

Social Studies –

This week was very exciting for historians. We were able to use the news about the Richard III discovery in England to further examine the science of history. We looked at the variety of methods used by historians to gather and process information. This information is then interpreted to further understand the past. We also spent some time with Alexander the Great. Students wrapped up the week by looking at the legacy of ancient Greece. Their open note quiz will be next Wednesday. From there we move to Rome.

I am available for after school help every Thursday until 4:00 p.m.

The links for the course websites are listed below.

Course Websites:

4^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M340001

5^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M340002

6^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M400002

7^th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M400004

Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org

314-918-4602