OCTOBER 11

CONTACTING ME: My school phone- extension is 413. I am not always in the room to hear it. You can always call my cell - 231-357-4710.

My email: lblowers@hamiltonschools.us
   
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Friday Fun last week: A dice game

CAMP MANITOU-LIN: Tuesday, October 14th.

* A note with detailed information went home Tuesday. A reminder and parent volunteer note went home on Friday. 

Thanks to GREYSON BORG for proofreading my incorrect note before it got sent home!

* Be prepared for wet weather. REMEMBER TO SEND AN EXTRA SET OF CLOTHING, SOCKS, AND SHOES PLEASE!

Orange Friday Folders: Please sign the yellow note in the folder so I know you have seen the notes, work, homework that is in it. Organizational habits now will truly help your child in the future.

PLANNERS: I am no longer checking to see if these have been signed. This was something to get your child in the habit of checking their own planner each day. If you write a note in your child's planner, please have them let me know.

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!

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* Homework this weekend

MATH: Lesson 8 Place Value review Odds only (on the back side)

  
  Book Project Homework DUE OCTOBER 28th. 

Your child knows there is a new book project for October. This activity will be sent home on Monday. I am sharing an example with them. Students are to be reading a chapter book (can't be nonfiction this time because of the assignment) in order to complete this project. 

MATH:    

The test will be sent home Wednesday. We will begin the Place Value unit Monday which includes decimal numbers. I will be putting additional video tutorials on the blog as needed.

 
LANGUAGE ARTS 

This past week we read a real life mystery about the ship The Mary Celeste. As we read we practiced asking and writing questions that were in our head to further our reading comprehension. We also wrote down when we found answers in the text to our questions.

We practiced writing a summary of our read aloud book. When we finish that book (Wonder) we will complete the summary and then write a retelling and contrast how these are different. Another story we read was about Ruby Bridges who was a little girl sent to a white school that was being desegregated. Something we are working on a lot is vocabulary. We want to recognize the difference between having seen a word before and truly understanding what it means in the text and then asking questions and using context clues to gain an understanding.

SCIENCE 

In science we reviewed balanced and unbalanced forces by discussing the definition and acting it out in multiple ways. Next we began investigating how to measure force in newtons. We also discussed why we would do this in real life situations. 

Spelling: We took the skill and proofreading tests Friday. This will come home Monday. Students typically have a lesson, homework page (which often gets completed in class), and a couple other review activities for spelling each week. Next week's skill are the homophones there, they're and their.