Week of October 30

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

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

HOMEWORK:     

Math: Lesson 34 - 5 word problems

Spelling: Complete spelling Lesson 7- compound words          Writing: Some students need to finish final drafts.                                                

  Read: Reading an average of 20 minutes daily is an ongoing homework assignment.

MATH: 

We learned about the associative property and rounding decimals. This coming week we will add in graphing decimals and then review for the test. The test will be Friday.

WRITING:  

Students finished their "Spooky Stories" and we read them to the class- I love that part and the kids really enjoy hearing other's stories as well. 

READING:

We finished reading the article Burning Town about the Peshtigo fire in WI back in the 1800's. This week we will begin literature circles. 

SCIENCE:   In science we have been investigating simple machines. Yesterday we made marshmallow catapults - levers in the simple machine family. Students tested and adjusted their catapults to make the marshmallow go the farthest. We will continue this on Monday.

 

WORD WORK:

We have been working on prefix meanings and usage. We will add in suffixes this coming week. Knowing the meanings of prefixes and suffixes can help students figure out words they don't know.

 

 SPELLING: The test over compound words is Tuesday.