Green 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.

Springfield field trip forms (see below) need to be turned into the office along with payment by March 23rd.

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Upcoming Due Dates

Social Studies summative assessment: February 24th

Classroom Happenings

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ELA- Mrs. Forderhase

Students completed their poetry vocabulary assignment and the poetry anthology project was introduced. Students will create their own collection of poetry. We spent time reading and writing poetry in class. Students also started their last personal reading book of 3rd quarter. As always, thank you for encouraging your child to read his/her personal reading book at home regularly.

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Science- Mrs. Kenney

This week in science, we continued with our Energy Unit and our heat labs. In the first lab this week, students used the scientific method to observe how heat is absorbed with different types of liquids. In the next lab, students hypothesized and analyzed data on heat loss of different types of liquids. Then, students observed heat absorption and heat loss of soil, sand, and water. We will continue with our Energy Unit next week. If you would like to support our classroom projects, we would greatly appreciate donations of tissue paper, duct tape, hot glue sticks, and glue sticks. Thank you!

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Social Studies- Mr. Ward

This week in social studies, students received their study guides for the upcoming Personal Finance summative assessment. The assessment will take place on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday students worked on the study guide. At the end of class on Thursday, we reviewed answers for the study guide. On Friday we spent more time practicing and preparing for the summative assessment.

Our Springfield field trip is coming up quickly, I still need 8 parent volunteers to join us for the trip. If you would like to go please fill out the form or contact Mr. Ward at ward.wardell@wgmail.org