In writing, we talked about topic sentences and how they usually tell the main idea of a paragraph. Then all the other sentences give evidence that supports the main idea. We wrote some paragraphs about places in Ipswich. Some people had a main idea about the YMCA, and other people had a main idea about Crane Beach. We've been working hard on paragraph writing.
Today in math, we learned how to use half-circle protractors. They help you measure angles. First you have to line up the center with the vertex of the angle you are measuring. Then you line up the zero on the protractor with one side of the angle. Then you see where the other side of the angle hits on the protractor and that's how many degrees the angle is.
In science, we've been exploring solids, liquids and gases. Today we had two exciting stations. One station was Mystery Substances. There were four mystery substances and they were peanut butter, baby powder, hand cream and Vaseline. We had to discuss whether we thought they were solids or liquids.
At the second station, we turned a solid into a liquid, then it turned into a gas. We talked about a gas is with that experiment. A gas is something you can sometimes smell, and it expands to fill the space it is in, and it has no definite size and no definite shape.
Miss O'Reilly read a book called 'A Blue so Blue' in reading, and we practiced inferring about a book's theme. Some of the themes we came up with are:
-Never give up.
-Sometimes what you are looking for has been close to you all along.
-Believe in your dreams.
-You don't have to look very far to find your dreams.
By Sophie, Ava and Miss O'Reilly
