Sia Marks' Fourth Grade Page http://www.siamarks.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Terrific Thursday http://www.siamarks.com/2010/09/terrific-thursday/ http://www.siamarks.com/2010/09/terrific-thursday/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:37:10 +0000 Sia Marks http://www.siamarks.com/?p=643 It was a nice and toasty day.  Perhaps a bit too warm for  P.E. at 1:00.  All the kids came back drenched in sweat!  They collectively sighed when they came back into the nice, air conditioned classroom. SSR was scheduled for after P.E. I knew we weren’t going to be able to get anything done till after they cooled down.

Besides some warm P.E., the class worked on some writing, geography, and math.

All Artifact Bags will be shared tomorrow!  Please don’t forget!

Tomorrow is also the first Spirit Day and assembly.  Show school spirit by wearing blue or wearing the Foothill shirt!

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I’ve asked the class to always have a chapter book to read in their desk.  They are welcome to read books from the classroom library or the school library (when it opens) or bring a book from home.  SSR time will be spent only reading chapter books.

Artifact Bags are due on Friday!  Don’t forget!

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Thank you!

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