Week of January 9th

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.   
http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/      HOMEWORK:                                                                                                                                                      
MATH: Remembering Lesson 4-7
                                                              
Book Report Project: This is due January 31st. Students have several options on how to present their projects which focus on character study.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------  MATH:    
 There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab
 This week we reviewed multiplying whole numbers by powers of 10
Example: 4 x 10x 10 x 10 = 4,000 = the 4th power of 10 (which is an exponent that I'm unable to type in this document.)  We also reviewed multiplying whole numbers. New this week was multiplying whole numbers times a decimal. We watched a video that was a visual reminder that decimals are LESS than one and what multiplying decimals times whole numbers looks like. We will multiply decimals times decimals next week.
  We continue to review fraction operations and other past concepts.
  
  LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing:  We are working on writing with an appropriate tone for the situation.  This week's letters will be graded for tone. Students are writing 2 letters - one letter is to Grandma thanking her for the pencils they got for Christmas and the other is to a friend about receiving only pencils so the tone would be different between the 2 letters.
 
READING: This week we began our new genre unit reading Sign of the Beaver. We will be working as a class and also in book clubs that I will sit in on. Monday Mrs. Dobb will be giving a lesson about Martin Luther King.

  SCIENCE   We continue our unit "Objects in the Sky" investigating what causes the seasons: the tilt of Earth on its axis and the amount of direct sunlight an area of Earth has at a particular time. We watched video clips and used models to demonstrate and discuss the reasons.
These video do a good job explaining:
 Bill Nye explains seasons
  Reason for Seasons
 
Studies:- Mrs. Custer

This week we reviewed the test on Africa and then began our study of slavery, including the Triangular Trade Route.  This website is a great way to review much of what we talked about this week: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g5s_u3/index.html#top

Word Study 
 Students will take the Lesson 14 test about the spelling patterns for 'ou' and 'ow'. They have a spelling page to study. They know they will have to sort 15 words into categories just like on that page of work we have worked on.


Next week lesson 15 will focus on spelling diagraphs at the beginning and endings of words. (wh, th, sh, ch)