Good Afternoon Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Feb.
11th – Incoming 7th Grade Parent Orientation
6:30
– 8:05 p.m.
Feb.
13th – Term 4 and Explo 2 ends
Feb
14th – Professional Day, No Student Attendance
8th Grade Registration Packet: Today students received their 8th Grade Registration Packet, 4 pages. Mrs. Peterson used a class period to explain the packet and have the students fill out the packet. The registration form will be accepted by the Hixson Middle School office staff starting on Tuesday, 11 February 2014. The registration is built upon a first come/first serve basis, so the sooner your forms are turned into the office, the more likely your student will have their first choices!
If you would like to activate your Edline account, please contact
Mr. Daniels or Mrs. Pettid for your activation code.
English –
This week students submitted their best effort at a fictional short story. Students will receive two grades for their story 1) turning in the story, 2) quality of the work based on selected criteria generated by the students.
Thursday and Friday, each class was split so that two activities were happening at the same time. The independent group worked on sentence combining, which emphasizes work with the four types of sentences. The teacher-led group participated in a text study of "The Highwayman"-- a narrative poem by Alfred Noyes. Students are encouraged to ask clarifying questions and probing questions to deepen their understanding of the text. Splitting the class allows the students within the discussion more time and opportunity to share their thinking and questions.
Our next library day is Monday, Feb. 10.
On Tuesday, students will revisit either summary writing or persuasive writing in response to a prompt related to "The Highwayman."
Thursday and Friday, each class was split so that two activities were happening at the same time. The independent group worked on sentence combining, which emphasizes work with the four types of sentences. The teacher-led group participated in a text study of "The Highwayman"-- a narrative poem by Alfred Noyes. Students are encouraged to ask clarifying questions and probing questions to deepen their understanding of the text. Splitting the class allows the students within the discussion more time and opportunity to share their thinking and questions.
Our next library day is Monday, Feb. 10.
On Tuesday, students will revisit either summary writing or persuasive writing in response to a prompt related to "The Highwayman."
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
In Dynamic Science this week the students completed for the second 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. This 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! Please ask your student how they improved on the QUIA quiz yesterday. The students may log in anytime they want to take the quiz as often as they want to check themselves. 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.
Instructional time this week was Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was the snow day, and Thursday was the formative Quia quiz, and Friday the students had their Counselor lesson from Linda Peterson on 8th Grade Registration. We are hoping to be able to get outside next week for some lab activities measuring the components of weather! J
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.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Science Course Website
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
It’s been a crazy weather week at Hixson. Because of the storm we were forced to move
the Greece open-note quiz to next Tuesday.
We will begin Rome on 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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