Week of February 20

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


SWIMMMING BEGINS NEXT WEEK: It is from 12-1:00 each day Monday-Friday of that week.

HOMEWORK:     
MATH: Check the planner                                                                                                                                               
Book Project:  Due March 3rd.
Students have another book chosen and should be reading.

MATH:    
There are math tutorials and practice in the order of lessons in the MATH Tab 

We have been practicing dividing 4 digit dividends with decimals by 1 and 2 digit divisors with decimals including when needing to add zero to the dividend. 

 

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: We are writing a newspaper called The Hawkeye Press using a google form. Each student is writing interview questions and then will interview someone and write this up for the paper. Students are also working in pairs to write a true or fictional account of an event that sounds true with a partner. We are working on using appropriate tone for a newspaper among other standards.
 
READING:  

Students took the Sign of the Beaver assessment on Friday. We also watched the movie version and compared/contrasted the two. The movie is quite different from the book.

Next week we will begin working on some nonfiction material.

SCIENCE: 

Students have completed the Gravity assessment and we are will now be working on the solar system such as planet distances, why or why not planets can sustain life, and planet temperatures and reasons for them.
  
Word Study 
 Students took the lesson 20 skill test. Next week's skill lesson is they're, their, and there. The lesson 21 word list is on the blog which can be helpful for the proofreading section.