Happy Full Week Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Mar. 4th –
25th Scholastic Book Fair
Mar.
11th and 13th Parent/Teacher Conferences
Mar.
13th Spring Picture Day
Mar.
14th – 23rd Spring Break
Important Information: Below is the link to sign up for the Student Conferences on Tuesday, 11 March or Thursday, 13 March; the 20 minute time blocks begin at 4:00 and the last appointment begins at 7:40. Choose any one of the Dynamic blocks: A, B, C, or D.
Click here for information on the FamilyEnrichment Fair. If you would like to activate your Edline
account, please contact Mr. Daniels or Mrs. Pettid for your activation code.
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 –
A busy and productive week for English students. Our week began with a visit to the library and persuasive writing in response to our current reading "After Twenty Years." Next students either participated in a class discussion as a follow up to the persuasive writing or worked independently on searching for details in the text to support questions related to foreshadowing, which is one of the traits that O.Henry's writing is famous for. Also, students practiced taking on a character's tone by writing a letter from the story character to a classmate evaluating their advice. Finally, students worked together to brainstorm sentence variations for our sentence combining work. On Friday, students will have computer workshop time to wrap up the week's assignments.
Grades in the portal were updated today. :)
Grades in the portal were updated today. :)
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
In Dynamic Science this
week the students completed a lab investigating specific heat capacity of sand,
water, and soil. The recorded the temperature every minute of each of the
materials while in exposed to a heatlamp for 15 minutes, then another 15
minutes with the heatlamp turned off. The students created a line graph for
their data. The conclusion the students wrote consisted of four parts: results,
hypothesis, evidence, and possible sources of error. The students created a
GoogleDoc and moved their conclusion document into a shared folder.
Understanding the uneven heating of different materials enables the students to
account for many of the differences in regional climate.
The students took the
Weather Unit formative quiz for the third time on Monday, 24 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 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. The students will take the
quiz again on Monday, 3 March 2014.
Next week the students
will investigate warm fronts, cold fronts, stationary fronts, and climate
factors.
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.
10.
Interpreting weather
station plots.
11.
Understanding cold
fronts, warm fronts, and stationary fronts.
12.
Understanding the
how rain, sleet, hail, snow, and freezing rain are formed.
13.
Specific heat capacity of different materials.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Science Course Website
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels -
daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
Students are continuing their look at ancient Rome. We have wrapped up the Republic and the
beginnings of Empire. We have also spent
some time looking at the tremendous architectural and engineering achievements
of the Romans. Next week we will
continue with Rome by focusing on life for the non-famous people. My goal is to wrap up Rome by Spring
Break. The Classical World test will be March 13th.. Fingers crossed, there will be no
more “bonus days”.
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
visit the following links for more information:
Hixson
home page -http://hixson.webster.k12.mo.us/pages/Hixson
Dr.
Heisserer's blog - http://hixsonprincipal.wordpress.com/
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