Willow Weekly 9/5 to 9/8

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Important Information:  

• After school activities start September 5, they are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 3:30 to 4:15
• Picture day was Friday, September 8th. To order your pictures online click here, use the order code 18671MB
• Check out the counselor's newsletter for the month of September here and their bonus newsletter here.

ELA –
Have you asked your student about his or her reading? That's been our focus this week! We spent some time talking about how to "keep it real" with our independent reading (no faking it!) and how to handle a book that seems confusing. Having an open discussion about these very common reading issues (ones adults deal with as well!) is an important part to building an open reading culture in our classroom.

This week marked the start of reading conferences. I am meeting with each student to share a short discussion on their reading likes/dislikes and past experiences with reading. This is one of my favorite things to do and really helps me recommend good books to my readers! Students have all signed up for a slot before school, during Discovery, during lunch or after school in the month of September.

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

Social Studies –

This week we wrapped up our introduction to the methods of history and prehistory. Students now have the beginnings of an historian's vocabulary and are beginning to understand the changes brought about by the agricultural revolution. We also discussed the basic gifts of river valleys and why the first civilizations evolved there. On Monday, we will begin looking at Mesopotamia.

Information and assignments for my class can all be found on my website.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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

Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org

314-918-4602

Math- 

All Math- Most students sent me their picture collage and I will be printing those this weekend and hang them up around the room to represent our diverse students. We will use one from each class each week to try to guess which classmate it belongs to. I am still missing some, please check with your student that they submitted it me so, it can be printed.

Algebra- We took a quiz on chapter 2 on Friday, expect a summative covering all of chapter 2 in the next two weeks.

7th grade math- We covered LT3 this week, adding and subtracting rational numbers. They will move on to LT4, multiplying and dividing rational numbers and we will be looking to take their summative at the end of next week.

Ashley Porter 

porter.ashley@wgmail.org

mathrm214.blogspot.com

Science –

This week in science we began exploring the world outside of Earth.  Students attempted to identify several celestial objects.  As a group we explored what we knew about objects like planets, stars, asteroids, galaxies and nebulas. The end goal of this discussion was to separate our factual knowledge into quantitative, qualitative, or inferential data.

Thursday we began individual research on three student chosen celestial objects.  We will use this research to create compare and contrast statements that use researched data to support the statements.  Students will be creating and giving a presentation to their classmates on one of their researched objects Monday to Wednesday of next week.

Enjoy your weekend - please email or call if you have any questions.

Matt Geringer
geringer.matt@wgmail.org

Please visit the following links for more information: Hixson home page -http://hixson.webster.k12.mo.us/pages/Hixson