Happy Friday, Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Mar. 6th – 12th – Scholastic Book
Fair
Mar. 11th
– 12th – Student Led Conferences,
4 – 8 p.m.
Important Information:
SLU Adventures In Medicine & Science Pig Heart Dissection Lab Field Trip forms are coming home today! The field trip is Tuesday, 24 March 2015 and the cost is $10.00. The permission forms need to be returned by Friday, 6 March!
English –
The week began with a wonderful story-- "A Mason-Dixon Memory"-- about standing up for what you believe and for each other. Following the story, students practiced reading critically for information by answering questions about the story. Who would have thought that answering questions could demand so much sophisticated writing, but it does! Throughout the week, students have been drafting and revising their question responses per ongoing feedback to make sure that:
- answers are accurate
- an explanation is provided
- evidence from the text is provided
- pronouns avoided in the answer
- signal phrases used, i.e. First detail is, Second detail is
- ideas are expressed clearly and succintly
Some students are working to create an acronym for these criteria so that they can use the acronym in other classes or testing situations to remind them of these criteria for success.
We will wrap up the week by returning to our work on the "Breaking Barriers" essay.
FYI:
- all English assignments/announcements are posted in Google Classroom. All English resources are available on a student's Google Drive and often linked to Google Classroom.
- Many students would benefit from time at home to work on their writing assignments (essays, paragraphs, question responses, etc.)
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math-
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
SLU Adventures In Medicine & Science Pig Heart Dissection Lab Field Trip forms are coming home today! The field trip is Tuesday, 24 March 2015 . The permission forms need to be returned by Friday, 6 March!
In Dynamic Science this week the students continued to develop the concepts to be able to draw conclusions from cause and effect relationships concerning: parent traits and probability of offspring traits, and interactions between plants and animals and the probability of successful reproduction! Ask your students about some of the factors which determine flower reproduction or predator/prey relationships.
The Dynamic field trip to the Practical Anatomy and Surgical Education Lab at St. Louis University the students participate in the ADVENTURES IN MEDICINE and SCIENCE (AIMS) program to do a pig heart dissection. This is a top notch, state of the art dissection lab! The students will also see a comparison of a healthy human heart compared to a diseased human heart. There are 3 paper permission slips required for this field trip; one for Webster Groves School District and two for St. Louis University Practical Anatomy Lab which was sent home today! Below are the links to those permission slips.
Webster Groves permission form:
SLU permission forms:
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
Students have been working on a variety
of activities for The Roman Republic. They completed a vocabulary activity, and examined the positive and negative effects of Roman expansion. There will be a very short vocab quiz next
Thursday. Students should study using the corrected vocabulary activity.
Next week, we will look at the move from Republic to Empire. I will be asking students to examine the question “Why would the citizens of a republic give up their rights to become an empire?”
The notes for the unit are available on
my website. I have been urging students
to copy two slides every night into their social studies notebooks. This will keep the task from becoming
overwhelming as the quiz nears.
After school help is available in my room every Thursday until 4:00
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
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