Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.
http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/
HOMEWORK: MATH: Lesson 9 four problems.
Book Report Project: Most students have presented and we will complete presentations on Monday.NOVEMBER/DECEMBER PROJECT: DUE DECEMBER 8
Students have chosen books and I checked to be sure these were at an appropriate reading level for them. I have gone over the next assignment and given it to students. They have 4 options to choose from for this report.
Students volunteered their ideas for managing their time on the assignment. Having a plan of how many pages must be read each day, starting right away, working on parts of the assignment that could be done ahead of time were a few.
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MATH: We are at the end of our Place Value unit. The test will be Tuesday. We have been reviewing all of last week. Our next unit is multiplying and dividing fractions. This unit will take up until Christmas break.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Writing: We began another narrative, but this one is a personal narrative focusing on a challenge or goal and how we were able to overcome the challenge/meet the goal.
READING: We began our genre unit novel "Guests". This week we got through chapter 1 and 2. We will begin chapter 3 Monday.
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 We have been investigating and discussing balanced and unbalanced forces. Investigations have included tug-of-war, arm wrestling, and a balloon/string set-up. So it's been pretty fun, too!
Tower Garden- Students are taking daily photos of their plants and will later use the "Quik" app to create a time lapse video. We will continue record measurements on a weekly interactive graph and create a record of observations.
Next week students will watch video clips about how plants in soil and plants in the Tower Garden access their basic needs- water, light, nutrition, and air- and then compare the systems.
Studies:- Mrs. Custer
This week we reviewed Native Americans based on 7 regions in North
America and then began a study of European exploration to the New
World. We read some of Christopher Columbus' own words regarding his
first expedition and broke into groups to read more about how and why
Europeans wanted to travel to this New World. There is no homework this
weekend.
Word Study
We took the Lesson 8 test Friday. These will come home on Monday. Next week's lesson is -er as used to mean "one who" or "more".
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