Good Afternoon Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Oct. 27th
– 31st Red Ribbon Week
Oct.
31st – Term 2 ends
Oct.
31st – Explo 1 ends
Important Information:
Gravity Pumpkin experiment: Next week the students will be doing a pumpkin drop experiment. If you are able to donate a pumpkin, please have your student bring it in on Monday or Tuesday the week of 27 October 2014!
English –
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
How to support your young writer:
- Writing is thinking, so:
- provide a quiet place
- Writing is an auditory skill, so:
- read their writing aloud as the student has written it
- ask student to read it aloud
- encourage them to use Google SpeakIt!
- Writing is about making decisions, so:
- always offer more than one choice
- act as a thesaurus or use a thesaurus to offer choices
- Writing is about building confidence, so:
- reference professional writing, i.e. "This reminds me of..."
- ask, "How can you make this part as strong as this part?"
- Writing is about expressing yourself, so:
- parents, please keep hands off the keyboard (even I struggle with this one)
- let the student make the final decisions whether you agree or not
Math-
This week students learned how to collect like terms and how to solve 2-step equations. Grades have been updated, please check the portal. If your student is missing a grade(s), I still need to conference with him/her before I record the grade.
This week students learned how to collect like terms and how to solve 2-step equations. Grades have been updated, please check the portal. If your student is missing a grade(s), I still need to conference with him/her before I record the grade.
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
Gravity Pumpkin experiment:
Next week the students will be doing a pumpkin drop experiment. If you
are able to donate a pumpkin, please have your student bring it in on Monday or
Tuesday the week of 27 October 2014!
Learning Goal: I am able to interpret and analyze
data to compare and contrast universe objects.
In order to be
proficient the student is able to analyze and
interpret data to compare and contrast objects in the universe; such as, sizes
of objects, habitable properties, layers of the crust and atmosphere, surface
features, orbital radius, etc.
In Dynamic Systems Science the students have been
doing research on 3 universe objects of their choosing. Some of their choices
are inner planets, outer planets, planets, stars, moons, black holes, dark
matter, galaxies, spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies,
dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, rings, etc. They have had 2 days this week in
class to do their research, put all the results of their research on a data
table assigned in Google Classroom. They are creating a bibliography using the
EasyBib app to create a MLA formatted citation for their sources. They will
create a presentation for one of their objects to teach to the class. The
format of the presentation is of their choosing: a rap, a poster, a song, a
poem, a Google Presentation, a video, a poster, a painting, etc.
One of the class activities on
Thursday included real-time chatting with the NASA mission: “Ice Bridge Antarctica
-2014.” The website link is below. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html#.VEqT6fnF9u4
The students were able to ask questions which were answered
by one of the scientist onboard of the DC 8 plane flying over the South Pole
taking measurements of the ice sheets covering Antarctica. The questions
included: What is the temperature outside the airplane (flying at 30,000 feet)?
Answer: -75°C = -103°F. Ice thickness is between 2000 and 3000 meters. The clothing
worn by the 25 staff members on the plane… “warm because it gets pretty chilly
in the plane.” Pilots have served in the USA military. The students had a lot
of fun chatting with the NASA researchers!
Please ask your student what objects they are researching.
If you have any questions or comments please let me
know.
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
Students finished up Egypt this week with a final discussion about
King Tutankhamun. We used the special Ultimate
Tut to once again examine the question “How Do We Know What We Know?” We will touch on this again when we reach The
Classical World Unit. This took a little
longer than expected, so we will begin India next week.
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
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