Week of December 7th

Student Absence: If you know ahead of time your student will be missing school and want work sent home, giving me at least 2 days advance notice is helpful in gathering it from teachers. Thanks!

Christmas Gift Giving- Candy Cane Selling Monday!

Monday volunteers begin selling candy canes- money raised goes to a Charity students will be discussing. This is in place of a Christmas gift exchange for teachers and students.                      
How it works: A student can buy a candy cane for a friend, teacher, sibling, etc., fill out a ticket with the friend's name, and the friend gets his/her name in for the drawing on Eloquence Day. The person drawn will choose which charity the donations will go to.  I will buy each student a candy cane so their name is in the drawing at least once. 
                                                                                                                         

Eloquence Day Friday December 18th: 

We will be practicing our manners in class this week to prepare. Students should dress up for this fun event. Students may bring additional clothes to change into afterwards.   
         

Eloquence Day money is due next week. $6- I need to turn mine in too!                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CONTACTING US>    
Email:  lblowers@hamiltonschools.us    lcuster@hamiltonschools.us                         
Phone:
269-751-4436
   
HOMEWORK:   Read a minimum of 20 minutes as always!

                                                   

MATH   - Mrs. Custer 

We have been working hard on multiplying fractions times fractions, mixed numbers and whole numbers.  On Friday, we also looked at how you divide a whole number by a fraction.  The kids did Great with this new concept!  For homework, please continue to practice for the math fact tests that are next Thursday.  You will need to be able to complete 30 problems in a one minute this time...  Good Luck, but practice to get better, too!

 
BLOWERS WRITING: 
 This week students gave Book Report presentations. Next week we'll be looking over our graded letter assignment and doing mini-lessons about sentence fluency and adding detail.

READING: with Mrs. Blowers
This week we were back to working with nonfiction texts. We practiced finding cause and effect within a text and students read an article on their own where this was a focus. We also reviewed strategies for making an inference and using text details and worked independently with a text they chose.
 
Social Studies with Mrs. Custer

Social Studies - We have learned about the early Western African empire of Ghana this week, including the reasons why they grew so large and powerful and also why the empire finally collapsed.

Science with Mrs. Blowers

We have been reviewing for our test on Wednesday that covers contact and non-contact forces. I sent Study Stacks to the kids. I am resending them as I took something off and added the term air resistance.We will be playing a favorite review game Monday- Kahoot!

 Spelling:     

No spelling lesson next week.