Friday

Name the word that refers to 'floating debris:' Flotsam
After a hint, the bonus question was correctly answered and were off to another round of current events, art projects, and a new Science unit: Life Forms. Spring is a good time for learning about seeds and that's where we'll start next week with a class planter and an assortment of seeds to sprout over the next several weeks.
Long division, fractions, decimals, probability, mean, mode, range, and median(central tendency) are parts of the broad Math curriculum we're working on now in the fourth grade. However, that does not mean it's time to slack off on practicing math facts. Let's keep sharpening those skills that will apply to so much in the future.