On Thursdays and Fridays, 4B kids get to play a variety of educational games that I’ve found on the Internet that help them practice skills we’ve been working on during the week. This Thursday, they got to practice finding the mean, median and mode using Handling Data, a game from the BBC in England. It [...]
Statistics… Sounds like a really fun, exciting topic doesn’t it? Well, it is in our class. On Monday each fourth grader got their own small box of raisins. Kids wrote their estimates of how many raisins were in each box on a strip of paper that had been folded in half. Then they all hung [...]
READING: Our story this week will be about baseball great, Lou Gehrig and how he heroically faced the disease that ended his life. Kids will get to hear a recording of the amazing speech he gave announcing his retirement.
MATH: Having successfully completed our algebra unit, we’re moving on to the study of statistics, including the [...]
There was apparently an accident… or an explosion involving pick-up sticks during an in-door recess earlier this week. Luckily, everyone had fun with it and there were no injuries.
This week, we read a play that is a fractured fairy tale based on The Three Little Pigs. It’s totally goofy! On Thursday, I assigned parts and the actors read it all the way through like a real play. They loved it! On Friday, I brought SIX different Three Little Pigs fractured fairy tales (there [...]
