WEEK OF DECEMBER 11th

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

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

HOMEWORK:     

Math: Remembering 3-10 due Monday

Reading: Read an average of 20 minutes each day.

MATH: 

Weare reviewing multiplying fractions and now have added in dividing fractions. This is when it can become particularly confusing for them, so it's important to be able to understand examples of situations where we would use multiplication and division and be able to model it.We won't take the test until after we come back from Christmas break and review.

 If you go to the math tab there are many videos and online practice things to do. It can be very helpful!!

WRITING:  

  Friday we began reading our snowman stories to the class. I was telling them that it is so fun to see the growth they have made with sentence fluency, using better word choices, adding in conversation, and just being able to read someone's writing and hear their voice in my head which is wonderful!

READING:

Next week we will read a Christmas picture book and discuss theme, character, mood, etc. 

SCIENCE:
I will grade tests this weekend and return them to students on Monday

 SPELLING: Students will bring their spelling test home on Monday. We will review grammar concepts next week, but no new lesson.

Week of December 4th

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

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

HOMEWORK:     

Math: Remembering 3-7 due Monday

Reading: Read an average of 20 minutes each day.

MATH: 

We have added in multiplying fractions by a fraction as well as multiplying fractions as scaling- how to tell if the product of a fraction products will be >, <, or = to one of the factors. We continue to review all concepts along the way. Next week we will begin dividing a fraction by a whole number.

WRITING:  

 We continue to work on a narrative writing project about a snowman. Students are writing from the snowman's perspective. We are focusing on sentence fluency- using short and long sentences and beginning our sentences with a variety of sentence types.

READING:

We are reading an article, "Race Against Death" a true account of the dogsled teams in Alaska who covered 700 miles in 5 days to bring  antitoxin to the town of Nome, Alaska to save the lives of children with diptheria. We watched a short video that mixed in the animated movie with a verbal accounting of the event. We are working on finding text evidence, vocabulary in context, and summarizing information, and text structure.

SCIENCE:
  We have done some investigations with magnetic forces as non-contact forces as well as electricity as a non-contact force. The test will be next Wednesday. Students have study stacks on Google classroom science.

 SPELLING: The Lesson 11 test over  apostrophes for contractions and possession was Friday. Our next lesson covers homophones.

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

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

HOMEWORK:     

Math: Remembering 3-8 due Monday

Reading:There is a text passage and questions due Wednesday.

MATH: 

We are continuing to work on multiplying whole numbers by a fraction and fractions by a fraction. We are working on problem solving with these concepts as well as creating visual representations of work.

WRITING:  

 We began a narrative writing project about a snowman. Students are writing from the snowman's perspective. We are focusing on sentence fluency- using short and long sentences and beginning our sentences with a variety of sentence types.

READING:

We will complete Literature Circles this week. We will move onto nonfiction articles through Christmas.

SCIENCE:
Students created paper airplanes, tested them, and then redesigned and retested after the lesson on forces of flight. We had a competition on Friday! Magnetic forces are next.

 SPELLING: Lesson 11 is about using apostrophes for contractions and possession. We will continue to learn more about this into next week and test on Thursday.