Good Afternoon Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Feb. 13th – Term 4 and Explo
2 ends
Feb.
14th – Professional Day, No Student Attendance
Feb.
17th – Presidents Day, No Student Attendance
Feb.
21st – Term 4 Report Cards Mailed
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The 8th Grade registration is open and forms should be turned into the Hixson Middle School office as soon as you are able. Remember the electives are scheduled on a first come, first served basis.
English –
This week students have been busy summarizing "The Highwayman." Summarizing not only demands reading comprehension but also requires structuring text in a meaningful way. Summarizing is a powerful tool to determine what a learner/reader understands about the text. Summarizing is an important skill for all college-bound students.
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
In Dynamic
Science this week the students finished their concept maps, independently
watched a video covering weather concepts and global convection, and textual
research covering the concepts of precipitation, air masses and fronts, storms,
and predicting the weather. Included within this the students began
interpreting weather station plots, see example below.
The students
will take the Weather Unit formative quiz for the third time on Tuesday, 18
February. You should be seeing their scores improving every week. This is a
Quia online quiz (www.quia.com/web) which covers the
concepts of the entire weather unit. I RECOMMEND your student takes the Quia quiz
two or three times over the long weekend using their notes as a learning
experience. 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. Since the
quiz covers all the concepts of the unit, the total points possible has been
adjusted down to the topics covered up to this point in time to more accurately
reflect their level of understanding.
Next week there are a couple labs planned.
Next week there are a couple labs planned.
We have covered the
following concepts so far this semester:
- Kinetic
temperature theory with the 3 temperature scales Fahrenheit, Celsius, and
Kelvin, including absolute zero.
- Density
of air and air pressure.
- Properties
of cold and hot air masses.
- Weather
caused by the center of a low pressure and weather caused by the center of
a high pressure.
- The
Direction of winds around a low or high pressure centers.
- The
three states of matter (solid, liquid, & gas) and the freezing/melting
& boiling/condensation transition zones.
- The
3 ways of heat energy is transferred: convection, conduction, and
radiation.
- Heat
energy moves up and from hot towards cold.
- Winds
blow away from the high pressure and towards the low pressure.
- Interpreting weather station plots.
- Understanding cold fronts, warm fronts, and
stationary fronts.
- Understanding the how the rain, sleet, hail,
snow, and freezing rain are formed.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Science Course Website
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
We’re finally at Rome! We will begin, as usual with a look at the
geography of the region and then move on to the Roman Republic. We will be comparing and contrasting
republics with democracies and determining just where the U.S. fits in. We will also be looking at the Punic
Wars. I will be asking students to look
at the question “How does a Republic become an Empire?”
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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