Good afternoon Dynamic Team!
DYNAMIC is to be CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCTIVE AND CONTINUOUSLY LEARNING!
Upcoming Events: Sept. 7th
– Labor Day, No School
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.
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 –
Our week was spent looking at the elements of Reader's Workshop, and our students did great at sticking to our norms. We talked about our "reading lives" (who we are as readers), and we came up with some strategies to try out when a book is confusing or when we feel like "fake reading" instead of "real reading." Our first page goal check-in is today, and I will be chatting with students about their reading rate, their progress toward their goal, and what strategies they can try to keep working toward improving their reading.
Next week, we will be starting to learn how to shape our thinking about what we read into meaningful summaries. I'll be modeling how to write a summary with a mentor text, then students will practice with groups with a shared text. Eventually, students will begin writing summaries on their own books in the coming weeks!
Ordering From Scholastic
If you're interested in ordering a book or two for your child from Scholastic, please check out the flyer that is being sent home on Tuesday (9/8). To place orders online, please go to scholastic.com/readingclub and enter my class code, HYW38.
Next week, we will be starting to learn how to shape our thinking about what we read into meaningful summaries. I'll be modeling how to write a summary with a mentor text, then students will practice with groups with a shared text. Eventually, students will begin writing summaries on their own books in the coming weeks!
Ordering From Scholastic
If you're interested in ordering a book or two for your child from Scholastic, please check out the flyer that is being sent home on Tuesday (9/8). To place orders online, please go to scholastic.com/readingclub and enter my class code, HYW38.
Math-
This week we finished up with multiplying and dividing integers. The students were given their first quiz this week. We are moving on to review fractions next week. We will continue to use integers. This a big unit that will continue to overlap into the rest of this year.
Science –
Dynamic Science
The learning goal this week has been “I am developing my engineering process skills.
The targets have been:
- “I am able to do engineering research. my understanding of research process skills.”
The major focus cross-cutting concepts have been:
- “Patterns: Observing patterns and events guides organization and classification and leads to understanding of relationships.”
- “Cause & Effect: Investigating and explaining causal relationships may predict and explain events.”
- Minor cross-cutting concepts have been:
- Systems and System Models: Defining systems and system models are ways to understand & test ideas.
- Structure and Function: The way in which an object is shaped & its substructures determine many of its properties and functions.
The two habits of mind we were developing are #8) Gathering Data Through All Senses and #10) Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
Activities students participated in this week:
- Writing an hypothesis using an “If…,then…” statement. The “IF” statement should describe how you are changing the independent variable, and the “THEN” statement should make a prediction of which I.V. condition will produce the best results.
- Writing a title for research by using the “The relationship between the (I.V.) and the (D.V.).
- Created a data table from scratch.
- The importance of multiple trials to get a mean/average value to approach the true value.
- Aerodynamic Engineering Lab:
- Prototyped paper airplanes to determine a design that had the best potential to fly the furtherest.
- Selected one aspect of the chosen design to research.
- Created an experiment from scratch.
- Ask your student to look at Google Classroom assignment #002
- Collected, recorded, graphed and interpreted the results.
- Wrote a conclusion to include: 1) summarize the results of your experiment 2) was your hypothesis correct or incorrect 3) give evidence from your data table to support your conclusion and 4) explain how the results could be useful beyond the experiment.
- The recorded their learner inventories on Google Classroom assignment #003. The inventories included: Habits of Mind, Thinking Styles and Intelligence Types (Linguistic, Visual/Spatial, Logical-mathematical, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Musical, Kinesthetic, Naturalist, & Existential), Triarchchic Intelligences (Analytical, Creative, & Practical), and Learning Modality Preferences (Visual, Auditory, and Tactile/Kinesthetic).
Vocabulary Emphasis this week:
- Independent Variable: IV is what the engineer/researcher “INTENTIONALLY CHANGES.”
- Dependent Variable: DV is whatever is being measured.
- Constants: All the things which stay the same every trial.
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.
Science Homework: Coach Daniels Google Calendar for iPhone
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Science Homework: Coach Daniels Google Calendar for non-iPhone
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Next week the students will review and share results of their aerodynamic engineering experiment, distinguish qualitative and quantitative data, complete a quiz midweek, look at the engineering process, and do any lab experiment activity.
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
This week we transitioned from PreHistory to Mesopotamia. Students have been exploring the geography of
the region in a variety of ways through the activities on my website. We have
also been looking at the many ways in which we are still being influenced by
the Mesopotamians. We will continue with
this same topic next week.
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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