Oct. 5......................Homecoming week  
Oct. 8 .....................5th/6th Grade Bingo Bash
 More info. to come about these events.   

CONTACTING US>   Email: lblowers@hamiltonschools.us                                                           lcuster@hamiltonschools.us                        

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"Photos" tab: Mrs. Custer and I will add photos from Monday's field trip when we have time this coming week.


HOMEWORK:  
MATH:  "Compare the Fractions" is due Monday. 

Blowers Book Report This is due Oct. 1st for presentations. Students who do not have access or slow service and want to do their slideshow presentation at school will have time for this on Sept. 28 and 29. I sent home a notes outline for each slide if students want to use this, sent home a list of character traits for their "Character", and we practiced how to write a summary. 


JRT- Just Right Time:
This Tuesday and Thursday 5th graders went to assigned classrooms to meet their "Just Right Time" teachers.  Next week we will begin the full program. A note was sent home Thursday.


MATH   
We tackled greatest common factors, how to form equivalent fractions and the process for comparing fractions that have uncommon denominators.  

Language Arts
BLOWERS Writing:  Students completed the final drafts of their writing of a piece titled, "What I Didn't Get to do this Summer". With this piece I am reviewing the writing process and what it looks like in our classroom. I am also looking for their strengths and what is needed to be worked on. From there students will begin to set goals in writing. I will be putting grades in for 3 standards, but they will not affect a final grade.
  We discussed the purposes of captions and practiced writing them. Monday students will choose an animals picture and write a caption. We will compile the class' captions to make a flippable interactive book. We are focusing on precise language, how punctuation makes meaning, and using text and pictures for inferencing.
 
READING: We have been using the article, "How candy Conquered America" to practice making and writing comparisons and using the QAR strategies when finding information in texts. (Question/Answer Relationships). We practiced comparing and contrasting information from two articles of similar topics. One of the our upcoming texts we will be reading is about the Joplin tornado. We will focus on making inferences about vocabulary, finding and understanding text features and use the QAR strategy independently. This coming week will be your child's first grades in PowerSchool for reading
 
Social Studies
This week we dug in deep using our reading strategies and websites to learn more about The Constitution and how a bill becomes a law in the U.S.  The answers to my questions are due Monday.

Science
This week are studying motion- how do we know something is moving? We use a point of reference. We will conduct an investigation outside. Next week students will design an obstacle course on a table. The purpose is to keep a marble rolling from one end of the table to the other as SLOWLY as possible. We will measure speed and discuss motion and forces.

Spelling:   Students took the Lesson 2 test on Friday.This will be their first Spelling Grade in PowerSchool.
The Lesson 3 word list is in the "Spelling" tab above.  I recommend that students review the words as they frequently come up in these 2 assessments!
The skill next week is irregular verbs.
   We also learned about nouns and pronouns- how to identify whether a word is a noun and that pronouns replace nouns.