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.