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Upcoming Events: Aug 19th – Sept. 9th – Music Fundraiser
Sept. 2nd – PD Day – No Student Attendance
Sept. 5th – Labor Day – No School
Sept. 9th – Picture Day
Important Information:
After school help sessions and activities begin Sept. 6th. At least one teacher from Willow will be available for help on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until 4:00. A list of other after school opportunities can be found here.
English –
Blog: blog.katiekraushaar.com
Email: kraushaar.kaitlyn@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
We have continued to look at historical methods through the lens of prehistory. We went through the notes (which are posted on my website), discussed the agricultural revolution, looked at the prehistoric site of Catal Hoyuk, and worked through some critical vocabulary. There will be several assignments due next Thursday, but students will have class time to complete the work.
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
Math-
This week in math we took a formative over order of operations, students got their scores back today. We discussed the importance of being a habitual work checker. We started discussing positive and negative numbers with temperature and will be working with operations with integers next week.
Algebra is working on adding and subtracting integers and will be closing in on chapter one in the next week and a half. Their online textbooks are now available for them to log into.
Check my classroom blog for notes and homework calendar.
Ashley Porter - porter.ashley@wgmail.org
mathrm214.blogspot.com
Science –
Welcome to Willow Science!
During the first week of science class the learning goal has been “I am developing my observation skills.
The targets have been:
- I able able to identify my strengths as a learner.
- I able able to describe skills for effective teamwork & collaboration.
- I am able to perform “place holder” procedure.
- I am able to identify and sort examples of Cross Cutting Concepts.
The cross-cutting concept 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.”
The two habits of mind we were developing are #8) Gathering Data Through All Senses and #16) Learning Continually
Activities students participated in this week:
- Completed learner inventories: 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).
- Sign up for REMIND
- Cup Stacking Challenge team building.
- Characteristics of effective Teamwork
- Cross Cutting Concepts sorting activity
Vocabulary Emphasis this week:
- Inductive reasoning is using all your observations and evidence to make a prediction where you have at least a 60% chance of being correct.
Cross Cutting Concepts in Science
Patterns: Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.
Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. A major activity of science is investigating and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. Such mechanisms can then be tested across given contexts and used to predict and explain events in new contexts.
Scale, proportion, and quantity: In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance.
Systems and system models: Defining the system under study - specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system - provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering.
Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations.
Structure and function: The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and its substructure determine many of its properties and functions.
Stability and change: For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study.
If you wish to receive the text message reminders or email reminders of science homework you would be occasionally receiving, please sign up by: 1) sending a text message to 81010 and put in the message as “@hxwillow”, and/or go to https://www.remind.com/ and enter the classcode: @hxwillow.
Next week the students will compete in aerodynamic engineering experiment to modify a characteristic of a their paper airplane design. “I am able to demonstrate my understanding of research process skills.”
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!
Willow Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Please visit the following links for more information:
Hixson home page -http://hixson.webster.k12.mo.us/pages/Hixson
Dr. Smith's blog - http://hixsonprincipal.wordpress.com/
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