Friday, October 28, 2016

Willow Weekly 10/24 to 10/28

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:
End of term is November 4!
November 17- Session one After school activities end 
Thanksgiving Break November 23-25

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


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English –


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

Social Studies –
During the first part of this week, we made a major detour and spent some time looking at the electoral college.  Students explored the differences between the popular vote and the Electoral College – and many were outraged to learn that a candidate could win the popular election but lose the presidency.
On Wednesday, students were asked to pick the five topics that they want to research for their Egypt Project – these were due today.  After I’ve approved their choices, students are able to jump right in and begin their research.  They will have every day in class next week to work on their projects, but please check in with them at home to see how they are doing.  The project is tentatively due on November 7th, but that may well be revised to a later date.

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


Math- 

This week in math we started our new unit on expressions and equations. We learned about like terms and who can be combined and who can't. Ask your student how they remember to combine like terms. We ended our week with a formative and will start next week off using the distributive property.

Algebra- Students worked on solving and graphing inequalities on a number line. They are finishing up chapter 3 and will likely have a test 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
Satellite phone call from a research plane over Antarctica
Here are suggested conversation starters for you young engineer:
  • Who did you chat with in science class today?
  • What is the difference between mass and weight?
  • What did you measure on the pumpkins?
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 - Reviewed graphing principles and scaling quantitative data on a graph.
  2. Tuesday - Worked on finishing graphing gravity vs mass of planets and distance from the sun and gravity.
  3. Wednesday: Assigned lab groups, introduced pumpkin data collections and calculations. Student began measuring circumference and weight and recording data of the pumpkins.
  4. Thursday: Finished measuring pumpkins and calculating: radius, diameter, volume, and density.
  5. Friday: Students chatted with NASA Ice Bridge scientists flying over Antarctica collecting data in ice thickness and movement, and began their Gravity Experiment Lab reports.
    3. They also have a FaceBook page.
  6. created a diagram comparing a circle to an ellipse, and then labeled the diagram for Earth’s location on June 21, September 21, December 21, and March 21.
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. }Rotation (rotate)- spinning on an axis; cause and effect = night and day, 24 hours, Earth and Moon rotate counter-clockwise, CCW.
  3. }Revolution (revolve) - one object moving around another object; cause and effect = years = 365.25 days
  4. }Orbit - same as revolution. All the planets and our Moon orbit counter-clockwise.
  5. }Ellipse - a “lopsided circle” where one edge is much closer to the center, the opposite edge is much further away and the side are in between and equidistant from the center.
  6. Vocabulary: Axis, Ellipse, Gravity, Orbit, Revolution, and Rotation.
NEXT WEEK the students will continue with Gravity Goal, and collect data on the donated pumpkins for our gravity/solar system experiment on Monday, 31 October.
  • How does the mass of the pumpkin affect the time it takes to fall?
  • How does the density of the pumpkin affect the depth of the crater?
  • How does the diameter of the pumpkin affect the diameter of the crater?
If you have any questions or concerns please email me!

Team Willow Science – Mr. Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org


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