Dear Praxis parents,

 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 the class learned about the Primary.  We visited the polling place and saw people placing their ballots in the machine.  A man filled in the ovals with an x in the middle of each of them so the machine would not take the ballot.  So you must fill in the ovals completely and not get out of the lines.  That's what we learned at the polling place. 

Mrs.Hoffman, our math teacher, introduced us to order of operations.  It is when you have a math problem like

4+6-(4x2)+4=                                

      4+6-8+4=                                     

     10-8+4=                                       

     2+4=                                                

     6   

These are the steps in order of operations

1. parenthesis

2. multiply or divide

3. add or subtract

We are practicing these this week

    We are also finding a person from World War II and making a slide show about the person that we are interested in.  

Sincerely,

Katelyn Williams