It’s Friday Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Feb.
4th – Incoming 7th Grade Parent Orientation
6:30
– 8:05 p.m.
Feb.
13th – Term 4 and Explo 2 ends
Feb
14th – PD Day, No Student Attendance
Important Information: If you would like to activate your Edline account, please contact Mr. Daniels or Mrs. Pettid for your activation code.
English –
This week students are engaging in Peer Response Groups to support revision of their short stories. The groups follow a protocol to support positive, safe constructive feedback about their writing. Each group member shares their story and then the group discusses the story while the author listens. Groups decide how to divvy their time between conferencing and working on the computers revising their stories.
On Monday, students visited the library and discussed how to perform more efficient searches using Google or SweetSearch, which is the preferred browser for middle school students. After the lesson, students had time to browse the collection, check out or renew books and read.
Students are encouraged to move their documents to Google Docs so they have access to their work from any computer with internet access thus allowing them time to work on their assignments at home, which is strongly encouraged due to limited class time.
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Students are still working in the Stretching & Shrinking (Understanding Similarity) unit. We will finish this unit in about 2 weeks. In addition to the S & S unit, I've been teaching algebra concepts throughout the year. The next unit will be Comparing & Scaling (Ratio, Proportion and Percent).
Students are still working in the Stretching & Shrinking (Understanding Similarity) unit. We will finish this unit in about 2 weeks. In addition to the S & S unit, I've been teaching algebra concepts throughout the year. The next unit will be Comparing & Scaling (Ratio, Proportion and Percent).
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
In Dynamic Science this week
the students have done 2 lab activities investigating convection, and measuring
temperatures of different types of materials for to explore specific heat capacity.
It’s been great to have the changes in weather this week, because they got to
see the barometric pressure fall suddenly and see first-hand the “windy,
cloudy, and rainy” weather.
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.
7.
The
3 ways of heat energy is transferred: convection, conduction, and radiation.
8.
Heat
energy moves up and from hot towards cold.
9.
Winds
blow away from the high pressure and towards the low pressure.
If you have any
questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Science Course
Website
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
Students focused this week on Alexander
the Great and the legacy of the ancient Greeks.
We looked at all of the ways Greece set the foundations for the modern
world through art, architecture, medicine/science and math. The open note quiz will be next Wednesday.
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
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