Starr's NewsLetter Weekly: 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Weekly News

Writing We have been doing story maps for twisted fairy tales about a story Mrs. Starr has read to us. This week we focused on character traits and setting.

Social Studies

We have been working on our Then and Now projects which are due on January 11th.

Mathematics

In math we have been learning about how to measure carrots by grams.

Number of Days Passed	Carrot 1 Weight in grams	Carrot 2 weight in grams
0	110 g	115 g
1	90 g	100g
2	70 g	75 g
3	65 g	60 g

Friday we had a assessment on the order of operations.

Social

In guidance we have been doing interviews for a game we have been playing that teaches us about Life Skills. Listed below are our 5 towns.

Town 1:Farmsville

Town 2:Basketball

Town 3:Springfield

Town 4:Zoo Drive

Town 5:Mustang Drift

Other

In gym we played a game called jedi. It is almost like dodge-ball but the doctor has a sword like a Jed.

That is it for the Weekly News!

Author:Jake

Photographer:Kyle

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Our Week of Learning: 11/30/2009

Mrs. Starr made new class jobs and Ethan is the reporter and Matt is the photographer.
It is the reporter’s job to write down what the class did all week. It the photographer’s job to take pictures of what we do all week.

Starr Student: Taylor!

Writing: Mrs. Starr read Fairy Tale stories to the class. While she read these we had to write a story maps where we named the characters and described the problems in the story. We also wrote our own “Twisted Fairy Tales.”

Math: The class made factor trees. A factor tree is when you have a number and break it down into smaller numbers. These numbers are called factors. For example: the factors of 25 are 5, 2, 25 and 1.

We also learned about order of operations. Mrs. Starr showed us please excuse my dear aunt sally to remember the order of operations.
This is the order to solve expressions:
P stands for parenthesis. These must be done first.
E stands for exponents.
M stands for multiply.