Happy Friday Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Sept. 18th
– End of Term 1
Oct. 3rd – Hixson Trivia Night
DYNAMIC is to be CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCTIVE AND CONTINUOUSLY LEARNING!
Important Information:
Hixson’s Trivia Night and Silent
Auction is October 3rd!
Proceeds from this year's event
will be used to bring the Rachel's Challenge program back to Hixson. For more information and to
register your table of 8, please click here.
Each team will be collecting items for a basket to be auctioned off at the Trivia Night. Dynamic's theme is A Night In. For the month of September please send in items for the perfect night in - board games, movies, movie candy, salty snacks, fuzzy slippers, snuggies, or anything else that would make for the perfect night at home.
After school help sessions and activities began Sept. 1st. At least one teacher from Dynamic will be
available for help on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until 4:00.
English –
Good to Know: We worked on summarizing this week and the difference between essential information and non-essential information. We read an excerpt from Jeanette Walls's The Glass Castle and worked on the different levels of summary responses. Ask your student about the difference between a "Facebook summary" and a "tweet" summary!
Looking Ahead: We will continue this work next week, gradually releasing students to write summaries on their own. We'll be reading "Priscilla and the Wimps" together and eventually move to writing about our own individual reading.
Talk to your student about what he/she is reading!
Email: kraushaar.kaitlyn@wgmail.org
Math-
This week in class we played Integer Yahtzee. There's some competition on our team! It was great hearing them talking and trying to beat each other. We moved on to reviewing operations with fractions. Next week we will be combining knowledge of fractions with our new integer rules.
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coffman.ashley@wgmail.org
This week in class we played Integer Yahtzee. There's some competition on our team! It was great hearing them talking and trying to beat each other. We moved on to reviewing operations with fractions. Next week we will be combining knowledge of fractions with our new integer rules.
mathrm214.blogspot.com
coffman.ashley@wgmail.org
Science –
Dynamic Science
The learning goals this week have been:
- I am able to make qualitative and quantitative observations distinguish the two.
- I am able to question and investigate to find answers using inquiry.
- I am able to clearly communicate using data tables and graphs.
Goal 1: I am able to make qualitative and quantitative observations and distinguish between the two.
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In addition to level 3 the I am able to:
justify the use of different types of observations for different situations.
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Goal 2: I am able to question and investigate to find answers using the engineering process/scientific inquiry.
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In addition to level 3 the I am able to explain the results of an experiment.
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Goal 3: Student clearly communicates data using tables and graphs.
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In addition to level 3 the I am able to interpret the table and graph and predict data which is not tested.
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- The students created learner profile cards.
- We practiced and reinforced creation of data tables and quantitative and qualitative observations/data.
- Today the students to a formative assessments on www.quia.com/web for goal #2 and goal #3. Please ask your student how they scored. The quizzes are designed to be learning experiences so they can take them as many times as they want to practice and make sure they understand and are proficient at those skills. Engineering/Inquiry Goal #3 - Data Tables & Graphs Formative Quiz #1
Engineering/Inquiry Formative Goal#2 Investigating to Find Answers
Vocabulary Emphasis this week:
When figuring out meanings of words the students should
- identify the root word
- identify if there is a prefix
- identify if there is a suffix
- Qualitative observations/data: anything we can experience with our 5 senses and describe with words.
- Quantitative observations/data: anything which can be measured or recoreded using numbers.
- More trials are better than fewer trials, because the more trials you have the closer the mean is to the actual true value.
- Quantitative data is preferred most of the time for different experimenters have measurements closer together, and statistics can be used to better understand the results.
If you wish to receive the same text message reminders or email reminders your student will be occasionally receiving, please sign up by: 1) sending a text message to 81010 and put in the message as “@c30be”, and/or go to https://www.remind.com/ and enter the classcode: @c30be.
Next week the students will finish the introduction and have a summative assessment over the 3 learning goals from above. Then we will begin studying universe objects.
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
This week we have moved from geography to looking at the culture
of ancient Mesopotamia. Working in
groups, students completed a webquest through the British Museum’s Mesopotamia
site. This allowed them to closely
examine artifacts that would be otherwise available to them. Next week we will be looking at the first
written law code and its impact on the U.S. Constitution.
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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