Week of October 3-7

CONFERENCES:  October 24th & October 26th            

An email for conference sign-up was sent home and the link is in the announcements. A paper sign-up came home on Friday. I do like to include your child in conferences, so bring them along! If you prefer not to have your child with you, this is fine.

SNACKS: Please send a snack with your child each day. Many students are not bringing one with them and 3-4 hours since breakfast is a long time!  

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.                       http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/   You can find the school announcements here along with other information. If you have not signed up for School Connects where you would get announcements, etc. sent to your email, you can check with the office about how to do this.

HOMEWORK:                                                                                                                                       MATH: Lesson 55 - 5 problems due Monday 

Science: Continue to study the Study Stacks                                      

Book Report Project:  This is due November 1st.        

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. We used a book they read in 4th grade to create a practice assignment. I will send this example home next week. 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.

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 MATH:   
  This week we have continued to review all standards, had focused groups for students that need assistance in particular areas, and practiced how to attack word problems. We began the study guide.
  The TEST over Unit 1 Adding & Subtracting Fraction will be Wednesday. October 12th.
  Tutorials in the MATH Tab under where it says "Current Unit".

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: We are working on our first opinion piece. We read a short article about the pros and cons of self-driving cars. We took a side to argue in favor of and searched for details to support our stance. We filled out a graphic organizer plan and will begin writing on Monday. This we are doing mostly together. The next ones will be more independently with support from me.
Standards: W.1 -Write an opinion piece with support   L.2 Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation, & spelling in writing.

READING:

This week we focused again on strategies to figure out vocabulary in context. We also practiced using BK + TC- Background knowledge and text clues- in order to make inferences when reading. We read "The Mary Celeste" a history mystery about a ghost ship to practice these comprehension skills. 
 SCIENCE   We are studying the concept of speed. Students are working on investigations where they are moving across a 10m distance, recording their times, and calculating their speed. We have also practice reading and creating line graphs as we will be graphing our calculations.
The TEST over lessons 1-4 will be the week of October 17.

Social Studies:- Mrs. Custer

This week we completed our Rip Books over chapter 2 vocabulary.  They have been graded and were sent home Friday.  We have now started our work on regions of American Indians.  Chapter 3, a colored regions map, and a GSPEC chart will be finished later next week.

Word Study

We took the Lesson 4 test Friday. These will come home on Monday. Our next skill is ways in which the sound /k/ can be spelled. The word list is in the SPELLING Tab.