Good afternoon Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Jan. 25th – Hixson Adult Trivia
Night
Important Information: A great big thank you to all of our parents who donated items for the Silent Auction. We are so grateful for all of your help!
If you would like to activate your Edline account, please contact
Mr. Daniels or Mrs. Pettid for your activation code. A helpful video can be found by following this link: http://bit.ly/hxtechyes.
English –
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
In Dynamic Science this week
the students had their first attempt at the Weather Unit formative quiz. This
is a Quia online quiz, www.quia.com/web , which covers all the concepts of the weather unit
learning goals #1 & #2. The students will take the quiz in class about once
a week so they can see how they are doing with their understanding of the
concepts. This formative quiz will be posted on the portal but does not
calculate into the student's semester grade. As they better understand the weather
concepts they will see their scores for the quiz go up! Right before the unit
test they should score very well on the quiz. The students may log in anytime
outside of school and take the quiz as often as they want to check themselves.
Considering we are only 9 class days into the unit I am not anticipating there
scores to be high yet. As you check the portal, remember Weather Unit Formative
Quiz is just a road sign to help students check their understanding of the major
concepts of the unit and do not figure into their semester grade.
We have covered the following concepts so far this semester:
1.
Kinetic temperature theory with the 3 temperature scales
Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin, including absolute zero.
2.
Density of air and air pressure.
3.
Properties of cold and hot air masses.
4.
Weather caused by the center of a low pressure and weather caused
by the center of a high pressure.
5.
The Direction of winds around a low or high pressure centers.
6.
The three states of matter (solid, liquid, & gas) and the
freezing/melting & boiling/condensation transition zones.
If you have any
questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Science Course
Website
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
It has been another abbreviated week
here at Hixson, and we are making adjustments in the work schedule. We have been focusing this week on looking at
Greek contributions to the modern world.
We will continue with this theme at the beginning of next week, and then
take a look at Alexander the Great. At
this point I am planning for the open note quiz to be the following week but we
will see what the weather has in store for us.
The short (very short) test on Greek art has been moved to next
Tuesday.
After school help is available in my room every Tuesday until 4:00
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
Please
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