The third and fourth graders have just finished their unit on plants with seed journals!  We collected seeds from the playground and brought some seeds from home.  Then we chose our favorites and created a seed journal, complete with sketches of a few of our favorite seeds, life cycles, stages of seed growth, and the three things a plant needs to grow and survive. 

          In math the fourth graders have completed their unit on place value.  They can tell us almost everything about a number and its digits!  Now they are decomposing numbers (taking them apart) and practicing multiple digit addition and problem solving.  Third graders are finishing up their unit on place value and will have a test coming up next week.  So, we will be working hard to review all we have learned before the test!

          Our focus in social studies for the next two weeks is, of course, the elections.  We will be discussing the very basics of government and exploring whom we would like to vote for.  Our class will be holding our own elections for president, along with the rest of the United States, on November 4^th.  Additionally, we will take a look at American citizenship and see if we can pass a citizenship test!

(Updated October, 2008)