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Conference Week has been a pleasure this year. My students are interesting and wonderful individuals and they have strong and caring parents supporting them. It is useful to have the insight that parents offer about their children as we work together to maximize the educational opportunities for each one. Communication is so important as we progress through the school year. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have concerns. Thank you parents!

In our shortened classes this week, we have been working on understanding how specific traits are passed from parents to offspring. We have learned how to use Punnett squares to explore the probability of possible outcomes in cases where traits are controlled by a single pair of alleles using examples from Spong Bob and the Bikini Bottom gang. We have also worked through some cases of imcomplete dominance and discussed codominance. Check out our Smiley Family Portraits to see the many outcomes that could arise from Mr. and Mrs. Smiley.

Posted by Mrs. Carroll