Week of January 23

Week of January 23

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.   
http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/      HOMEWORK:                                                                                                                                                      

Book Report Project: This is due January 31st. Students have several options on how to present their projects which focus on character study.
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MATH:    
 There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab
 We have been reviewing all concepts for multiplication. The test will be Wednesday.
  
 LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing:  Students are writing a persuasive speech running for Fruit/Veggie of the Year! Each student chose a fruit or vegetable. They are researching nutritional facts and reasons their fruit/veggie should be voted for. We will also be discussing campaign slogans ans they will be creating slogans and posters. Students will present speeches later and are encouraged to bring in the fruit or vegetable to show the class - students are NOT expected to provide a sample to the class.
 
READING: 
We continue in our genre unit working in groups and as a class reading The Sign of the Beaver. Students are working on comprehension strategies for finding text information, vocabulary, point of view, and how to cite text evidence using a quote. Monday we will take a break from this book to read and then compare and contrast 2 articles about invasive species.

SCIENCE: 
We have been investigating the moon and its phases. We will continue this week and also investigate the solar and lunar eclipses.
    
Studies:- Mrs. Custer

Social Studies - This week we learned about a fictitious slave family in the story Now Let Me Fly.  We compared and contrasted this story with Molly Bannaky, the true story of an indentured servant who marries her own slave and becomes the grandmother of Benjamin Banneker.  We also started partner work reading Enemies of Slavery to learn about some incredible people in American history who fought against slavery.

Word Study 
 Students took the skill part of lesson 15. Next week's skill lesson is making plural words. The lesson 17 word list is on the blog which can be helpful for the proofreading section.