We started the day by giving the students the opportunity to create a card or gift for a teacher on Teacher Appreciate Week. The 4th graders were then introduced to a new math game called 5s or 10s. It works a lot like Connect Four except the board is a grid filled with numbers. Player 1 rolls two 6-sided-dice, chooses one and then chooses to multiply that number by 5 or by 10. They may then place their token on that number on the board. Player 2 follows suit and players take turns until one player connects four tokens. 

In the afternoon, the students learned about Earth artist, Andy Goldsworthy. They then took to the schoolyard to create their own spontaneous Earth art. Some students chose to forgo their regular recess to continue work on their pieces. At the end of the day, the students had a surprise dissection activity (gummy frogs) to celebrate my  birthday!

Thank you so much to those of you that have helped make this day and Teacher Appreciation Week special!

Our last GATE day for 4th grade is Wednesday May 18th. Students are welcome to bring a special snack for themselves or to share with our class of 21 on that day. We have one student with a tree-nut allergy.