Week of November 23rd.

TURKEY TROT: 

 5th graders enjoyed getting out there for the Turkey Trot and it was a beautiful day for it!

 Christmas Gift Giving: 

Student brought a note home today about our 5th Grade Charity Project. We will be having a 5th grade Christmas party, but we will not be exchanging gifts, but rather donating to a charity that students will have a hand in choosing. I will attach the information about this in an email next week in case you don't get the note.                                                                                                          
CONTACTING US>    
Email:  lblowers@hamiltonschools.us                                              lcuster@hamiltonschools.us                         
Phone:
269-751-4436
   
HOMEWORK:
MATH:   worksheets 11.5 and 10-12 (only the evens on the second one).
Read your book for the Nov/Dec Book Project
    Blowers Book Report Students received the paper with 4 options for their book report and we have discussed these projects. Due Date: Dec 9                                                  
 MATH   - Mrs. Custer
We are feeling successful multiplying fractions times fractions and fractions times a whole number.  The homework this weekend is  worksheets 11.5 and 10-12 (only the evens on the second one).  Today we took our November math fact tests.  Beginning in December, our goal is no longer 20 problems in one minute, but 30. The kids have their progress charted on a math facts graph that is in their binder, and these tests will be sent home next week.

Language Arts
BLOWERS Writing: 
 Students wrote their Fall similes using best word choices.

READING: with Mrs. Blowers
Students took the assessment over the genre unit. Next week we will work with nonfiction text again.
 
Social Studies with Mrs. Custer

We finished our second unit this week and have moved on to studying the continent of Africa.  The kids will get their test back on Tuesday. 

Science with Mrs. Blowers

Both classes rocked the assessment over balanced/unbalanced forces and simple machines! We began our investigations into non-contact forces. We will continue this next week. We will also discuss the forces of flight and make/test paper airplanes as part of our investigation.

 Spelling:     

This week we focused on adverbs and the difference between adverbs and adjectives. We will be doing more activities with these concepts.