CONFERENCES: October 24th & October 26th.
I encourage you to bring along your child to conferences if you wish! Our spring conferences will be student-led and they will have something they create about their learning experience.
Friday, October 28th is a half day. Students out at 10:45.
Monday, October 31st there is NO SCHOOL.
SNACKS: Please send a snack with your child each day. Many students are not bringing one with them and 3-4 hours since breakfast is a long time!
Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.
http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/ You can find the school announcements here along with other information. If you have not signed up for School Connects where you would get announcements, etc. sent to your email, you can check with the office about how to do this.
HOMEWORK: MATH: Lesson 15 - 5 review problems
Book Report Project: This is due November 1st. Students chose a book to read between home and school. They have a graphic organizer to fill in character, setting, plot, problem, and solution. They need to have an item, drawing, etc, in a bag or container to represent each area. They will present these to the class on Nov 1 and 2. This assignment requires students to manage their time and to be careful about procrastinating. The standards we are focusing on are RL.2 summarizing and SL.4 -Report on a topic speaking clearly and at a good pace.
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MATH:We are now working on Place Value. So far we have worked on reading, writing, and comparing decimals to thousandths, ordering decimals, and adding decimals. We have been reviewing those standards and will add in subtracting decimals. We have been looking at visuals of what it means when a number is a decimal- less than the whole number one. There are tutorials and practice sites on the blog in the MATH Tab.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Writing: Students are writing Spooky Stories. We are using sound words (Onomatopeia) and focusing on giving details that help the reader "see" what is happening.
Standards: W.3 -Writing a narrative using detail organization, conversation, introduction and conclusion. L.2 Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation, & spelling in writing.
READING:
We read a short fiction story this week and practiced thinking and writing about the plot and theme as well as practiced writing thorough responses to text questions. Next week we begin our first Historical Fiction genre unit. We will read the novel "Guests". We will work as a class, smaller guided reading groups, and independently on reading comprehension strategies.
SCIENCE We completed lessons 1-4 which focused motion, finding the speed by calculating the distance divided by the time and creating data charts and graphs. The test is Monday and only 4 questions. We done a lot of review and practice in class as well as played a fun game called Kahoot!
Tower Garden: Students measured their plants in centimeters, created an interactive graph online, and graphed their first measurement. We will learn to check the PH level of the water this coming week and watch a video about aeroponic gardening.
Studies:- Mrs. Custer
This week we reviewed Native Americans based on 7 regions in North America and then began a study of European exploration to the New World. We read some of Christopher Columbus' own words regarding his first expedition and broke into groups to read more about how and why Europeans wanted to travel to this New World. There is no homework this weekend.
Word Study
We took the Lesson 6 test Friday. These will come home on Monday. The skill this coming week is compound words. The word list is in the SPELLING Tab.
Grammar: We also had a lesson and practice about synonyms and antonyms as well as reviewed these parts of speech: Nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We have also been working on breaking words apart into appropriate syllables. This is helpful when hyphenating words in writing.
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