Muscles and Bone Assessment Study Guide

Muscles and Bones Unit Exam Study Guide

 

 

Students also have a packet of bones that is used as a study guide.

Students should be able to:

 

• Label 20 bones of the human body. (word bank will be provided)
• Identify the number of bones in an adult human body. (206).
• Name the three functions of the skeleton as form, protection and movement.
• Name the largest, longest bone in the body as the femur.
• Describe how bones are made up of four layers: “bone skin”, compact bone, spongy bone and bone marrow.
• Explain the reasons how we know that bone is a living thing. They heal themselves. They grow. They make blood.
• Name the five types of joints and be able to label them on the skeleton.
• Hinge joint- Opens and closed only. (fingers, toes, knees and elbows)
• Pivot joint- swivel- up and down and back and forth. (wrists, elbows and neck)
• Ball and socket- can move in any directions (shoulders and hips)
• Gliding joint-  bones must move together- (spine)
• Locked joint- anywhere two bones have grown together and will never come apart. (Skull)
• Identify the largest muscle in your body as the gluteus maximus.
• Name the three types of muscles as voluntary, involuntary and cardiac. They will also need to give examples of how each is used. Voluntary muscles are muscles that we can control such as kicking a ball or writing a letter. Involuntary muscles are muscles that we do not control such as our brain functioning, our lungs breathing, our digestive system working. Our cardiac muscle is our heart.
• Define
• ligaments as tissue that connects bone to bone
• Tendons as tissue that connects muscle to bone
• Cartilage as the tissue that is known as soft bone like that in our nose and ears. Also, as the jelly like substance found in between bones which reduces friction.
• Joints are where two bones meet.

Social Studies Project

River Travel Project

Assigned on September 15^th and Due Monday September 29^th.

 

Your children have received detailed instructions and have seen prior samples of River Projects. I’m writing this to answer some questions that have come up in regards to this project.  The projects should include a map of the river and 5 to 10 facts that the student has learned.  These facts need to be in their own words not just printed off the internet.  Pictures of the river and wildlife surrounding it is also very interesting. If you need me to print something for this project please email me a link by Friday noon.

Sue Wetzel - swetzel@highlineacademy.org

Dem Bones

My daughter, Bailey, found this fun skeleton game online. You can either build a skeleton or label the bones.
Enjoy!

Skeleton game

An oldie but goodie reposting :)

Aiding your child's understanding of Literature

During conference I spoke to many families about how to help increase their child’s comprehension (understanding) of what they are reading by asking questions about what they read. I thought this information might be important to shall with all of you!

These are some quality questions that provide different levels of understanding you can ask while they are working on their homework or after reading together for fun.

At the beginning of the book-

What does the title tell you about the story? Have you read any other books by this author?

What do you think will happen in this story?

What background knowledge do you already have about the character or setting?

Have you read any other books based in this time period?

How might the story relate to you?

Middle of the book:

What questions do you have about the story?

Why did the character act the way they did?

Predict how the story will end. What clues did you use to make your prediction?

How would you have solved the problem?

How could the character have avoided the problem?

End of the book:

Summarize the story

How was the problem solved?

How would you end the story differently?

If you could re-name the story- what would you name it?

What lesson can you learn from the story?

Compare and contrast you and the main character.

What is the main idea of the story?

Retell just one main event of what we read.

Thank you so much for your support and reading with your child at home!!!

Tara Whalen

Scientific investigations

The 3rd grade starts off the year, hard at work in science. We dive into the Scientific Method and learn how to do experiments. Luckily we get to learn about experiment with some pretty fun ones :)


Scientific Method-
1. Ask a question or name a problem-
          What do I want to study?
2. Do some research and then create a hypothesis-
           What do I think will happen?
3. Gather materials-
            What will I need to be able to do this experiment?
4. Procedure-
             What steps will I need to take in order to do this experiment? (now I get to do it!!!)
5. Results-
              What happened when I ran the experiment?
6. Conclusion-
               Tell the world what you learned and ask what else can I learn?

Eureka Math

August 25, 2014

Dear Highline families,

 

As many of you know, Highline Academy has been looking to make a switch in math curriculum . While Saxon had positives, it did not have the rigor our students deserve, nor was it aligned to the Common Core. I am excited to announce that the elementary staff has chosen a new curriculum, one that is fully aligned to the Common Core. This curriculum is Eureka math and is the best fit for our students because it is designed to develop real world application and problem solving mathematical skills in all students. Throughout this year, and in the years to come, you should see your student developing not only number sense but becoming independent problem solvers.

Eureka focuses on a different skill set than Saxon. As a result, we deemed it necessary to give all of our elementary students a pre-assessment to ensure that students were placed in a class best suited to challenge and close gaps that may exist. Gaps may exist based on the transition to a new curriculum built off of more rigorous standards. We used a diagnostic, i-Ready, to create our math performance groups this year. The i-Ready pre-assessment gives us a snapshot of how students perform on grade-level Common Core related skills. We have attached your student’s i-Ready data for you to review.  Our goal is, as it always has been, to ensure that we are meeting the need of and challenging all students. Through using both Eureka and i-Ready, we are confident that we will be able to grow a mathematician in all of our students.

Eureka will look very different than Saxon did. For example,students will be using workbooks and will no longer have text books. Additionally, some of the problem solving strategies may be new to both you and your student. Because of this, we have planned several parent information nights throughout the year; we hope you will be able to join us on September 18th from 6-7pm to learn what Eureka looks like in your child’s classroom.

 

Finally, as we make this transition, I welcome your feedback and look forward to partnering with you in developing a math program that meets the needs of all of our students.

 

Your partner in education,

 

Kali Garofoli

Principal

Highline Academy Charter School

Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year!!!

Ms Wetzel and I are so excited to begin the journey for this new school year. We are going to have an amazing ride traveling down world rivers, through our bodies, and Ancient Rome. We will head into space, explore colonial America, and live the life of Vikings. Come take the ride with us!!!