Sunday, October 9, 2016

Willow Weekly 10/10 to 10/13

Welcome to the Willow Weekly.  Here you will find all of your Team Willow news and information.  Please sign up for automatic updates and you will be notified whenever an update is made.

Upcoming Events:
Picture Retake day October 21st
Second quarter bus passes required Monday, October 17
Red Ribbon Week 24th of October

Important Information:    

After school help sessions and activities began 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.

T-Shirts Are Here!
We'll be ordering Team Willow shirts this year! Shirts will be $8, and we would like to have shirts ordered by the end of parent-teacher conferences. Please visit this form to place your order today! https://goo.gl/forms/asheaGU5cgJsXeXG3


If you wish to receive the text message reminders or email reminders of homework, 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.


Visit the Hixson Scholastic Book Fair Online!

You can shop and order online to help support Hixson's library! The book fair will also be set up during parent-teacher conferences. 

English –

We spent the week generating ideas for personal narratives in preparation for our realistic fiction pieces! Sometimes, stories from our own lives can inspire wonderful pieces of fiction.

Students set a new page goal on Monday, and their two-week check-in will be on Oct. 24th. Ask your student about what he/she is reading!

Don't forget to stay updated with what's going on in ELA by visiting blog.katiekraushaar.com

Social Studies –

This week in Social Studies, we have been exploring the geography of Egypt.  Students were given time to read Chapter 7, complete Geo Challenge 2, Reading Notes 7, the BrainPop for Egypt, and the Egyptian Vocabulary Activity.  This is a lot of work that will set the stage for our discussions next week – leading to the Egypt Project the following week. 
On Wednesday, we also spent time working on some preparation for the Rachel’s Challenge assembly.



Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602


Math- 
This week students started work on a four fours project, ask your students about it. It's been challenging for them! It will be do next Friday. They have a unit test next Thursday over everything they've done this semester so far.

Algebra- Finished up the last of chapter 2 and will start a project on Monday that they will work on and present next Wednesday. We will start chapter 3 at the end of next week.

 Check out my blog for some of the great things we've been doing in class. 

I found a nice website, check it out! Sign up for Table Talk Math here! The goal of this site is to provide clarity for what students could be doing to increase their math fluency and also provide prompts to discuss around the dinner table (or anywhere, for that matter).

To sign up for math homework updates message @math7port to 81010
algebra homework updates- message @a493a to 81010 

Ashley Porter 
porter.ashley@wgmail.org

Science –

Willow Science
Here are suggested conversation starters for you young engineer:
  • What is “gravity?”
  • What affects how much gravity an object has or experiences?
  • What is the difference between “mass” and “weight?”
The targets this week have been:
  1. I am able to develop and use models to describe the role of gravity.
The cross-cutting concept have been:
  1. Patterns: Observing patterns & events guides organization and classification & leads to understanding of relationships.
  2. Cause and Effect: Investigating and explaining causal relationships may predict & explain events.
Activities students participated in this week:
  1. Monday - Notes and class discussion about the concepts of gravity.
  2. Tuesday - Reinforced gravity concepts and reviewed graphing skills
  3. Wednesday: ½ day - Journaled to prepare for Rachel’s Challenge Assembly. What are one or two activities you or your school can do that would make the biggest impact on improving the culture at your school?
  4. Thursday: Rachel’s Challenge Assembly 1st and 2nd periods. Class discussion over what needs to be changed about our school culture to demonstrate more of BEING KIND?  
  5. Friday: NO SCHOOL
Goal #2 I am able to develop and use models to describe the role of gravity.
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I demonstrate innovation, in depth inference(s), or advanced application(s) with the learning goal.  In addition to level 3 I am able to:
  • critique models to demonstrate understanding of role of gravity in the universe.
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I am be able to:
  • explain motions of specific objects in the universe and solar system in terms of gravity.


Vocabulary Emphasis this week:
  1. }Gravity - 1)the attractive force between any objects with mass. 2) Gravity distorts space and time.
  2. }What affects the amount of Gravity? - two things which determine the amount of gravity: 1) the greater the mass the greater the gravity 2) the closer the distance, the greater the gravity.
  3. }Mass - the amount of matter in an object
  4. }Weight - a measurement of the amount of gravity on an object.
  5. }Mass vs Weight - mass is measured on a balance and gravity is measured on a scale. On the Moon or Earth - Mass doesn’t change but your weight will be ⅙ on the Moon vs Earth.
NEXT WEEK the students will continue with Gravity Goal and using graphing to better see the relationships gravity effects.
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!
Team Willow Science – Mr. Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
 
 
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