January 30 - February 3

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

HOMEWORK:     
MATH: Evens Lesson 3-10                                                                                                                                                
Book Project:  
Students have another book chosen and should be reading. The project will be sent home this week.

MATH:    
There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab
We will begin division next week. We discussed on Friday that it's a good idea to practice dividing 4 digits by 1 digit if anyone is not confident with this. We will be learning 4 digit divided by 2 digits this week. There are tutorials and practice in the math tab. 

 LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing:  Students are finishing up the drafting of their persuasive speech running for Fruit/Veggie of the Year. They have been coming up with their campaign slogans and creating their posters. Students will present speeches Friday and Monday. They are encouraged to bring props such as an example of their fruit or veggie choice and even dress in the color of their food. Students are NOT expected to provide a sample of the food 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.
SCIENCE:  We are reviewing the moon and its phases, and we began our investigation of the solar and lunar eclipses. We viewed a power point of eclipses and students drew conclusions about the order of the sun, moon, Earth during these eclipses. We will continue this investigation this coming week.
     Studies:- Mrs. Custer

This week we completed an assignment covering people in American history who have been Enemies of Slavery from a book with the same title.  We then learned about Roanoke, the first European colony, and studied maps related to the first colonies in America.

Word Study 
 Students took the lesson 17 skill test. Next week's skill lesson is comparatives and superlatives. (good, better, best) The lesson 18 word list is on the blog which can be helpful for the proofreading section.