WEEK OF OCTOBER 24th

Remember NO SCHOOL on Monday October 31st. Have a wonderful Halloween!

SNACKS: Please send a snack with your child each day. 

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.   

http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/   

HOMEWORK:                                                                                                                                       MATH:  There is a reviewpage they received on Thursday Due Nov. 1

Book Report Project:  This is due November 4th.     Students chose a book to read between home and school. They have a graphic organizer to fill in character, setting, plot, problem, and solution. They need to have an item, drawing, etc, in a bag or container to represent each area. They will present these to the class on Nov 1 and 2. This assignment requires students to manage their time and to be careful about procrastinating. The standards we are focusing on are RL.2 summarizing and SL.4 -Report on a topic speaking clearly and at a good pace.

Students are already choosing books for the Nov/Dec Book report and should begin reading as soon as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  MATH:    Students have learned all concepts in the Place Value unit. We will have 2 short quizzes next week and review. The Place Value test will be the week of November 10th. I have additional practice pages available that students have been asking for and there are tutorials and practice sites on the blog in the MATH Tab. 
 
LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: Students have completed their Spooky Stories. Student who wish to read them will do so on Tuesday. Our next writing assignment will be a personal narrative.
Standards: W.3 -Writing a narrative using detail organization, conversation, introduction and conclusion.   L.2 Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation, & spelling in writing.

READING: We began our genre unit novel "Guests".  This is historical fiction centering around the theme of dealing with change.We will work as a class, smaller guided reading groups, and independently. Through this book we will practice reading comprehension strategies, simile, metaphor, personification, vocabulary in context strategies, and grammar. 

 SCIENCE   Wow!! Everyone did so well on this first test. Being involved in discussions and class activities is important and I am proud of their involvement and hard work. We began our section about balanced and unbalanced forces. We arm wrestled and gave other examples in order to demonstrate these concepts. They had a great time with that!

 Studies:- Mrs. Custer

This week we learned about the early explorations of Europeans, focusing on new products they found in the Americas, technology they used to navigate and what motivated them to travel. 

Word Study
We took the Lesson 7 test Friday. These will come home on Monday. We will need to review compound words as many students forgot that it is 2 smaller words combined to make 1 word and used suffixes such as -ly and -ing in their compound words. 
  Next week's lesson is the various spellings of the /s/ sound.