Happy Friday Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events:
Feb.
2 – Career Fair, 7th Grade
DYNAMIC is to be CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCTIVE AND CONTINUOUSLY
LEARNING!
Important Information:
Hixson Middle School Attendance
to Junior Achievement Career Fair
Our school was accepted to participate in the
Junior Achievement Middle School Career Fair.
Hixson Middle School 7th grade students will be
traveling to the Moolah Shrine located at 12545 Fee Fee Road St. Louis, MO
63146 on Tuesday, February 2 for this field trip. As part of the
guidance counseling curriculum career lessons will be delivered to students
prior to the field trip by our grade level counselors and interns.
We will leave Hixson at 9:55 am and depart
from the career fair at 12:15 pm. Due to the field trip overlapping with our
Hixson lunch times each team will be making arrangements to eat at school upon
their return.
Mrs. Kraushaar and Ms. Coffman have written another Donor's choose to get some bouncy bands and some fidgets to help our students focus. Any donations toward our project will directly aid students in focusing in on daily tasks, which translates to better grades and increased learning. We want our students to move their bodies while growing their brains. We hope this project will help our students to continue to move toward the goal of lifelong learning! You can find the link to view our donors here.
Mrs. Kraushaar and Ms. Coffman have written another Donor's choose to get some bouncy bands and some fidgets to help our students focus. Any donations toward our project will directly aid students in focusing in on daily tasks, which translates to better grades and increased learning. We want our students to move their bodies while growing their brains. We hope this project will help our students to continue to move toward the goal of lifelong learning! You can find the link to view our donors here.
At least one teacher from
Dynamic will be available for help on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until
4:00.
English –
We continued working on writing about our reading this week as part of our information unit. Students will eventually be producing a companion book to their chosen novels, and they were very excited to learn that their peers will be reading their published books eventually!
I have started requiring 1.5-2 pages of writing about their book each class period, and students know that if they don't accomplish this in class, it becomes homework. Meeting this goal counts toward their participation grade for class.
Writing invitations are issued a few times per week as a way for students to achieve the 4 for class participation! They can be found on Google Classroom.
I have started requiring 1.5-2 pages of writing about their book each class period, and students know that if they don't accomplish this in class, it becomes homework. Meeting this goal counts toward their participation grade for class.
Writing invitations are issued a few times per week as a way for students to achieve the 4 for class participation! They can be found on Google Classroom.
Email: kraushaar.kaitlyn@wgmail.org
Math-
7th grade math will be taking their assessment over scale factor on Wednesday the 3rd. They were given their study guides today and will review with them Monday. Our next unit will be solving equations. I will be sending emails home over the next day if your student is missing assignments or has below a 65%.
Algebra just finished up their systems unit and will have a short unit over exponents next.
Algebra just finished up their systems unit and will have a short unit over exponents next.
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coffman.ashley@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
We have been looking at
Greek culture this week – specifically art and architecture. Please ask your student if they can tell the
difference between Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic sculptures. They are just starting, but they may surprise
you. We have also been looking for
examples of Greek architecture in the modern world. As you drive around this weekend, see if they
can spot elements in the buildings you see.
We will continue with culture next week.
Please ask your students to
share the words they are learning as we explore Greek roots, prefixes, and
suffixes.
Dynamic Social Studies
Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
Science –
Dynamic Science!
The learning goals this week have been:
- Goal 1: Student understands that living organisms are systems of interacting subsystems composed, on the most basic level, of cells.
- Goal 2: Student develops and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.
- Cross-Cutting Concepts
- Systems and System models: Defining systems and system models are ways to understand ideas/concepts.
- Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure and/or performance.
- Structure and Function: The way in which an object or living thing is shaped & its substructures determine many of its properties and functions.
- Students have been working on knowing and understanding “Cell Theory” and “6 Characteristics of Living” things. I have been reviewing with the students their note taking skills and organization.
- Students did their cell part presentations on Monday and Tuesday.
- Wednesday & Thursday we did different activities to deepen understanding - class discussion, Q & A, slide review, multiple examples for each characteristics, and a couple of Kahoots.
- Friday reviewed the goals and cross-cutting concepts, Q & A for clarification, and ended with the Formative re-Assessment for the Cell Theory and Characteristics of Organisms.
Next week the students will dig into levels of organization of complex organisms.
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
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