Maria And Sam's Class News Letter

           Friday: On Friday we have gym and in gym we did stealing sticks again. Then we had read aloud, in read aloud Mrs. Starr reads a book called “The Graveyard Book”.  After that we have SFA (success for all). Next we have lunch and recess. Finally we have math. Same as usual, we use the first few minutes to write our procedures. Then we do our calendar. We have to find out the missing angle. At the end of the day we have writing again. We ether work on our persuasive, our procedure or our digital story telling.
    Monday: On Monday we had Music. In music we practiced the songs that we are going to do for the Spring Concert. The songs that we are going to sing are: Cat Came Back, Third Base Coaches Dance and some of us are going to dance and some of us are going to sing to the Hoedown Throw-down. In writing we are doing procedures about things math related. Some choices are: Order Of Operations, Surface Area, Volume and other things too.
    Tuesday: On the we have Library. On The in Library we have skills day. In skills day we went over the test that we are going to do on next Tuesday. In writing Mrs. Starr introduced the persuasive piece. Mrs. Starr showed us a persuasive called “A Request For A Dog.” We started writing a persuasive, we had to write a request for a different or the same animal. Also in math we had to continue writing our procedures for the first minutes. Then after we did The procedure we did the angles on the calendar. On the calendar we have a shape and it there shows us the 3 other degrees and we have to find out what the other degree is. Did You Know? A 4 sided shape has 360 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 4 sided shape is called a  quadrilateral. A 3 sided shape has 180 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 3 sided shape is called a triangle.
    Wednesday: On Wednesday we have Library.  We also have Guidance. In guidance we started writing letters to the upcoming fifth graders. (the fourth graders).On Wednesday in Library we sign out books. Also, if you bring in your books for five weeks in a row with out forgetting any of them you get to go in the treasure boxes or discard boxes. In writing we kept on working on our procedures and our persuasive pieces. Then in math we used the beginning to write or type our procedures. Then we used the rest of the time to work on area in a rectangle. We also did an area page in our student books. We had to estimate the area in some rhombuses.
    Thursday: On Thursday we have P.E. Or Gym. In P.E we played a game called Stealing Sticks. In the game the other team tries to steal the other teams sticks. Then in writing Mrs. Starr introduced a new persuasive piece that we needed to write. We needed to write a letter to our parents to persuade them to come to the state that we did for the fifty states project. In math we did the usual use the first ten or so minutes to write or type our procedures. Then we did some more of the angles.