Week of January 22nd

CONFERENCES ARE FEB. 5TH AND FEB 7TH.

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

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

HOMEWORK:    

Math: Homework Lesson 4-7 due Monday

Reading: Read an average of 20 minutes each day.

MATH: 

  This week we moved into learning how the digits shift places to the right to get a smaller number when multiplying decimals. We related decimals to fractions and used 100'd grids to draw what decimals numbers look like, and related it to money. We are trying to remember to think about what makes sense- will our answer be larger or smaller than a factor and does the answer we get makes sense before moving on to the next question.

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

WRITING:  

  Students are choosing a topic to research, writing notes on a planning page, and will then draft a magazine-style article on google docs with related photos and links.

READING:

   We began our new genre unit, Sign of the Beaver. We have been reading as a class so far and working on comprehension and vocabulary strategies.

SCIENCE:

We have been investigating what makes day and night by observing shadows, viewing some video clips of the movement of the sun and Earth, and made a sky viewer model the movement. We now the sun does NOT move and that the rotation of Earth and it's turning away from the sun is what causes night and day. We are moving into investigating why we have seasons.