Week of April 24th

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.    

http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/    

HOMEWORK:    Math "Remembering 4-12" and some students have a few problems from Friday's math.

MATH:  
There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab

  Monday we began our measurement unit focusing on metric units of capacity, weight, and length. We have already been working with these concepts off and on for several weeks with our morning math reviews.

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: Students are completing final drafts of their biographies. They will present these to the class. The book students read for the April book project is this biography and the rest will be done in class.
  READING:  

Students are working in groups doing Book Clubs while I sit in at various times with each group. They are working on a variety of comprehension activities through discussion and papers. Students may have finish up homework at times. I also have them redo papers that are not complete and these are homework if there is no class time.

SCIENCE: 

  We began talking about characteristics of animals next week. Our hermit crabs came on Thursday! We have 6 of them and one is HUGE. We will study them as part of our unit.
Social Studies -

This week we had fun portraying some of the events that led up to the American Revolution, as well as watching them being explained in a video.  We had the King of England, colonists and Parliament all present.  I would suggest that the kids review their notes, as there has been a lot of new information shared!

 Word Study
 The skill lesson this week is homophones. We practice the skill during the week and there is always something to study for the tests that are on Fridays.

WEEK OF APRIL 24th

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.    

http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/    

HOMEWORK:    Math "Remembering 4-12" and some students have a few problems from Friday's math.
 

MATH:  
There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab

  Monday we began our measurement unit focusing on metric units of capacity, weight, and length. We have already been working with these concepts off and on for several weeks with our morning math reviews.

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: Students are completing final drafts of their biographies. They will present these to the class. The book students read for the April book project is this biography and the rest will be done in class.
 
READING:  

Students are working in groups doing Book Clubs while I sit in at various times with each group. They are working on a variety of comprehension activities through discussion and papers. Students may have finish up homework at times. I also have them redo papers that are not complete and these are homework if there is no class time. 

SCIENCE: 

  We began talking about characteristics of animals next week. Our hermit crabs came on Thursday! We have 6 of them and one is HUGE. We will study them as part of our unit.

Social Studies -

This week we had fun portraying some of the events that led up to the American Revolution, as well as watching them being explained in a video.  We had the King of England, colonists and Parliament all present.  I would suggest that the kids review their notes, as there has been a lot of new information shared!

 

 Word Study
 The skill lesson this week is homophones. We practice the skill during the week and there is always something to study for the tests that are on Fridays.

Week of April 10

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.    

http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/     

MSTEP: The next MSTEP test day is next Friday & it's math. 

HOMEWORK:     

MATH: Students have 2 pages marked in a morning work math packet to do for homework.

 MATH:  
There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab

  We began algebra this week and are also dabbling in some geometry and measurement activities preparing for our next unit.

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: Students began writing the notes for their biographies. We will begin the drafts at some point next week. The book students read for the April book project is this biography and the rest will be done in class.
 
READING:  

The MSTEP took up 2 of our ELA blocks this week. We began book clubs on Friday and will continue with these for the next 3-4 weeks.

SCIENCE: 

This week we began our new unit- Systems. We will be studying the human body, environmental, and animal systems. Our first lesson is focused on classification of animals. We will begin talking about characteristics of animals next week. We are also getting hermit crabs next Thursday in order to study them as part of our unit.

Social Studies -

​ This week we finished our early colonies unit and took a test on Thursday.  Next week we will be talking about the Bill of Rights, along with some of the events that led up to the American Revolutionary War. 

note: This test was a little more difficult than some others because of the vocabulary and structure of questions. I talked with my class about making sure they ask Mrs. Custer during the test if they don't understand words or what a question means.

 

 Word Study
 Students took the lesson 25 skill test. The next skill lesson is synonyms.