Week of November 16th

TURKEY TROT: Wednesday November 26th
    On Wednesday the entire school will do the 5K Turkey Trot to get outside and be healthy together! Students should DRESS IN LAYERS and bring hats and gloves in case they are needed. This event will be held in the afternoon.
                                                                                                          
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Email:  lblowers@hamiltonschools.us                                              lcuster@hamiltonschools.us                         
Phone:
269-751-4436
   
HOMEWORK:
Reading:   
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
Our unit on place value is finished and the tests will be corrected by the end of the weekend, with grades for all 4 standards listed individually in PowerSchool.  Next up is multiplication and division of fractions. 

Language Arts
BLOWERS Writing: 
 This week we some students read their "Bad Case" story. We spent some time doing mini-lessons and activities about sentence fluency. The class also did their first of 3 preliminary spelling tests to see who will be in the 5th grade Spelling Bee in January. Next week we wil write a short piece that focusing on figurative language and word choice.

READING: with Mrs. Blowers
We completed Guests and began reviewing for the assessment which will be next Wednesday.  Students also listened to and discussed "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky" as part of our genre unit. The theme is change and all 3 books in this unit. We have been discussing how characters react to change.
 
Social Studies with Mrs. Custer

This week we focused on The Columbian Exchange and the effects of that on both European life and life here in the Americas.  Our test will be next Tuesday and will cover the Bering Land Bridge Theory, Native American tribes and their regions in North America, early European exploration and The Colombian Exchange.  Please use your social studies spiral notes, worksheets, and textbook to help you review.   We will have one last review on Monday.

Science with Mrs. Blowers
Students completed the assessment over balanced and unbalanced forces & Simple Machines. Tests will come home Wednesday. Our next focus is contact and non-contact forces.

 Spelling:  
  Spelling Lesson 8 Test was Friday.
Next week's Lesson 9 skill is comparatives and superlatives: great, greater, greatest, for example. I suggest students study the spelling list on the blog.