Willow Weekly 3/27 to 3/31

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Important Information: 

• MAP testing is coming up. Willow students will be taking their MAP test April 17th (Math), and April 18th (ELA). Please make sure if you know your students will be absent those days let us know in advance. If they miss one of the testing days there will be a make up day for all students.

• Please remind your students to charge their Chromebook every night! We have had many students come to class with dead Chromebooks, which slows down instruction

• This is also a good time to check your student's supplies. Many students have been asking us to give them paper and pencils during class.

• After school help sessions and activities are after school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday until 4:00. 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 –

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

Social Studies –

Students have had all of every class period this week to work their Greek projects.  This will be a summative grade and is due on Monday.  I am really looking forward to seeing what they've produced.  We will have a gallery walk Monday so that they can all share their products.

 www.hixson.webster.k12.mo.us/pages/Hixson/Classes/pettid

Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org

314-918-4602

Math- 

Algebra- Are well into chp 9, covering quadratics and their graphs. EOC is April 26th

Math 7- We just took our first formative over learning target 1 and scale factor. We will be testing over the first part of our geometry u it sometime next week. MAP test for these students will be April 17th.

Ashley Porter 

porter.ashley@wgmail.org

mathrm214.blogspot.com

Science –

Willow Science

Here are suggested conversation starters for your young engineer:

• What is a “genotype?”
• What does “homozygous” mean?
• What does phenotype mean?

Goal 1: I describe factors that impact reproduction.

I am able to draw conclusions from cause and effect relationships concerning:

• parent traits and probability of offspring traits,
• interaction between plants and animals and the probability of successful reproduction,
• and humans altering genetic outcomes.

The cross-cutting concept have been:

1. Structure and Function: The way in which an object or living thing is shaped & its substructures determine many of its properties and functions.
2. Cause and Effect: Investigating and explaining causal relationships may predict & explain events.

Activities students participated in this week:

1. Monday: Genetics Pretest, begin working on genetic vocabulary development.
2. Tuesday: Goal writing and review, Create Goal Tracking, Create Vocabulary Tracking, Begin Genes video “once through.”
3. Wednesday: Genes, Genetics, and DNA video for “understanding,” filling out an Note pages, and vocabulary development.
4. Thursday: Check and correct note pages, 2 Newsela articles about humans altering genetic outcomes, working on vocabulary development, and class discussion/notes on genetics.
5. Friday: Innovation hour schedule - Genetics class discussion/notes.

Emphasis this week:

1. }Target: Developing Punnett Square skills.
2. Vocabulary: Allele, Asexual reproduction, chromosomes/genes/DNA, Dominate, Genotype, Heredity, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Phenotype, Recessive, Sexual Reproduction.

NEXT WEEK the students will be working on understanding genetics.

If you have any questions or concerns please email me!

Team Willow Science – Mr. 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/