Blue Team Weekly Update

Week of 1/6-1/10

Breaking News

After-School Activities will resume next week. If your student is interested in joining an activity second semester, please send us an email with the name of your student and which activity they would like to join. Information on available activities can be found here.
You can find the link for Remind messages here or text @hxblue to 81010
The Hixson Winter Mixer will be on Friday, January 31, 2020 from 6:30-8:00pm! See the flyer below for more information. Please also consider volunteering to chaperone. You can sign up at this link.

Upcoming Due Dates

Classroom Happenings

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ELA: Mrs. Camden

We had a good week back! Students were given Winter Break to complete their December reading. I had students complete book forms when we came back Monday. I will update these grades next week. We reviewed our Historical Fiction book club novels so we can get started on Literary Essays. Our Greek & Latin roots for the week were Ped/Pod meaning foot. Next week we have library and NWEA testing, so our week will be off a little.

Just a reminder, students are required to read two books each month for the rest of the school year. These books count as summative grades. Remind you child that they must fill out a completed book form for their reading to count. Completed book forms are in the classroom next to the pencil sharpener.

I will be placing a Scholastic book order on January 15th for anyone who submits an order online.

If you’d like to donate books to our classroom library, we have wish-lists on Scholastic and Amazon. Thanks!

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Science: Mr. Vorel

This week in Science students jumped right back into our Chemistry unit. On Tuesday we completed a lab that demonstrated to students how the Law of Conservation of Mass applies to chemical and physical changes. The lab included an exciting chemical reaction that produced a beautiful color change.

Students were also given back their chemistry quiz that they took at the end of last semester. They will complete quiz corrections with any questions they missed. Once their thorough corrections have been made, their score will be updated and go into the gradebook.

Lastly, students began their study into acids and bases. This includes the acquisition of background knowledge and a lab. We will end the week with another lab where students will test close to 20 different substances to find if they are acidic, basic, or neutral.

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Social Studies: Mr. McGinnis

This week in Social Studies, students received the Junior Achievement Field Trip Form (Feb.13th). Students will get a job and a family situation and in 4 hours they will have to create a budget and pay bills according to their life situation. It is worth the price of admission to see them try and figure out how to pay the bills.

WE NEED 20 VOLUNTEERS!

Goal is to have at least 75% of all forms into the office by Jan 22nd.

If a scholarship is needed contact us as soon as possible.

Link to form

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l34qat_pPmzJfEZOEkc1XnSklZr8ZIYEecdVU59mKuY/edit?usp=sharing

Students are taking interest inventory surveys to help them find a career that MIGHT be interesting to them.

Here are the links - Go ahead and join them

http://japrofile.org/

https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

Today we discussed the history between the US and Iran up to the present.

This will give students a perspective on the situation that is developing.

They will have a quiz on the Middle East Map next Thursday or Friday.