Week of September 11th

Middle School Website: This is the link for the middle school website.    

http://www.hamiltonschools.us/schools/hamilton-middle/   

HOMEWORK:     

Math: Complete the equivalent fractions math lesson                   Read: Reading an average of 20 minutes daily is an ongoing homework assignment.

MATH:  We have been working on improper fractions and mixed numbers, comparing fractions, equivalent fractions, factors and multiples. We will continue review of these concepts this coming week. There will be a quiz over these concepts on Friday. 

See the math tab for tutorials when needed.

LANGUAGE ARTS 
Writing: We have discussed what makes a complete sentence and parts of a paragraph. This week students chose a topic and began writing a paragraph with a topic sentence and 3 details which they will elaborate on. We will be using this to discuss/practice the difference between revising and editing and practices good writers use to communicate effectively.

READING:  

We are using nonfiction articles to focus on vocabulary in context, text features and how they help us find information and summarizing sections as we read to be sure we understand. We will continue to practice these strategies and work on finding the main idea and details as well as how to respond to text questions. 

SCIENCE: 
Our focus has been on motion and how we use a point of reference (a non-moving object in the background) to determine something is moving. We used plastic frogs to jump along a measuring tape to observe this. Students graphed their results. Next week groups will design an obstacle course for a marble in order to make it move as SLOWLY as possible from one end to the other. They will graph their results of the distance, time, and speed.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Students learned the preamble and began early American history.