Blue Team Weekly Update

Week of 2/18-2/21

Breaking News

Next Friday, February 28th is the last day to order a yearbook! Yearbooks are $18.00. You can place your order online at https://sales.yearbookmarket.com/stores/hixsonmiddleschool/products/773?pidx=0 or your student can turn in their envelope with payment to Ms. Baker in the main office.

To schedule a conference with your child(ren)’s teachers, please visit the link below.

https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Hixson_Middle_School_1

PLEASE NOTE:

Math and elective teachers will be meeting separately from team conferences. Please make sure to schedule an additional conference with these teachers.

Purple team will not be meeting as a team and will be holding individual conferences. If your child is on the Purple team, please schedule individual conferences with your child's ELA, Social Studies, and Science teachers.

7th grade team conferences are student-led conferences. Please sign up for a time when your child is able to join you.

Dr. Lee, Dr. Vogt and Mr. Hazelton would appreciate any parent feedback by completing the following surveys. Thank you!
Dr. Lee: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GLeeParentGuardian1920
Dr. Vogt: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Vogt-1920-Parent-Guardian
Mr. Hazelton: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MHazeltonParentGuardian1920
We're looking for local businesses and professionals to partner with for our career fair on April 17th. The time commitment would be from 7:30am to 11am.
We are hoping to find local businesses to speak to our kids about their career fields and professionals who are able to offer insight to our students about resume building, soft skills, and interviews.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Emily Bardot at bardot.emily@wgmail.org or 918-4655.
The Middle School Math Program Evaluation Team is interested in parent feedback regarding MS Math. Please visit the following link to complete the survey: http://bit.ly/MSMathSurveyWG.

You can find the link for Remind messages here or text @hxblue to 81010

Upcoming Due Dates

Classroom Happenings

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ELA: Mrs. Camden

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 your 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 February 29th 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

It has been another great week in science. On Monday students wrapped up a lab that looked at heat loss and factors that may accelerate or prevent it. Then, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we completed two labs on heat loss and a third lab on heat absorption. These labs are part of our larger unit on heat transfer which focuses on conduction, convection, and radiation.

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Social Studies: Mr. McGinnis

First-Thank you volunteers for making our trip to JA Finance Park a success. Everyone was accounted for when we left! Joking aside, it was a wonderful learning experience.

Our assessment over Personal finance is on Wed. Feb 26th.

Study vocab and on Friday students will complete their study guide.

Starting next week students from UMSL will teach 1 lesson a week on the Global Marketplace.

Enjoy your weekend and your King Cake.