It’s Friday Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Sept.
26th Term 1 grades mailed
Sept.
30th – Oct. 14th Book Fair
Important Information:
“Forces of Nature” Multimedia Symphony Field Trip – Powell Hall Tuesday, 11 November 9:00 am
Pairing planet images and information with symphony music, audiences will be in awe at how the power of nature and various phenomena on Planet Earth and Beyond have inspired famous works. Just added to this awesome line-up is the Theme from Star Wars!
Tuesday, November 11 at 9:30 am
Fall conferences this year will be held during the following dates and times:
October 7, 4pm – 8pm
October 8, 1pm – 5pm
October 9, 4pm – 8pm
You may schedule a conference with your child’s teachers by clicking on the link below. Before doing so, however, please read the following:
You will need to know the name of your child’s team to sign up.
Please sign up for an available time to meet with your child’s team. In most cases, this will include your child’s English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies teachers.
Hixson Middle School Conference Scheduler: http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Hixson_Middle_School_1
English –
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
This week students began the week with an emphasis on
reading. After watching a digital picture book story, students calculated their
words per minute. According to one research-based resource, students should be silent
reading at least 195 words per minute to maintain continuity of ideas.
On Tuesday, Ms. Artkras attended the 6 – 8 grade vertical
department meeting in which we looked at students’ MAP scores to identify
strengths and weaknesses and problem solved classroom situation as well as
explored resources. Meanwhile Dynamic students worked on polishing their
selected paragraphs for topic sentence, supporting details, transitions and
formal voice.
On Wednesday, students read and discussed a wonderful poem
by a Nigerian author, “My Name is a Song.” Students received a grade for their
participation. The grade is in the SIS
Portal and it is weighted at 0% since it was our first graded discussion.
Future discussion scores will impact the grade. Grading criteria includes:
responding with relevancy, displaying etiquette, coming prepared, asking
questions, offering text-based or research-based information, and connecting
the text with other texts or synthesizing ideas.
On Thursday, students were introduced to the research essay
project “What’s Behind the Name?” Students will begin researching their own
names and that research will be organized into an essay. Friday will focus on
web-based research.
Our next library day is on Monday, Sept. 29.
Math-
Next week, students will review the Accentuate the Negative unit (Operations of Integers and Rational Numbers), and take the assessments on Friday.
Now that students have received their ChromeBook computers, I will implement a new web-based curriculum called MobyMax in our classroom. This program will be used in conjunction with our math program (Connected Mathematics 2). You can read more about MobyMax in a letter which I will send home next week, also this letter will contain each student's (user name & password).
Wilma Slaughter
– slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
Field Trip Permission forms were sent home on
Wednesday! Below is the link if you did not receive it from your student. ”Forces of Nature”
Permission forms and the fee are due on Friday, 3 October, 2014.
In Dynamic Systems
Science the students spent the week continuing to practice the scientific
method skills. The formative assessment
at the end of last week demonstrated more practice and polish was needed for
hypothesis writing. There was introduction and reinforcement of the meaning and
cause of the Autumnal Equinox on Monday, at 21:29 St. Louis time… which also
acted as a seeding for the next unit on Universe. On Thursday during Science
class the students were instructed and practiced using their assigned
Chromebook. Today the students signed up for Google Classroom and sent me a
practice e-mail. Please ask your student how they are tracking themselves on
each of the learning goals.
Looking forward to conferences with you!
Please contact me
right away if you have any questions or concerns! Occasionally there is a
communication malfunction whenever an adult communicates with 12-13 year old
students. LOL
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels -
daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
Students finished their look at Mesopotamia this week with
an open-note quiz on Tuesday. I
have offered before and after school through next Tuesday for any
students who needed to finish up.
On Wednesday, students began exploring the geography of
Egypt. With the addition of Chrome
Books to the class, you will begin to see many more on-line related
activities. If you have not yet
done so, please take a look at my website to get a better feel for what’s
coming up.
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
Please
visit the following links for more information:
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