Trees and testing!

Hello everyone,
Just a few notes about the upcoming 4th grade events:
*Your child is bringing home a small tree today.  We had a speaker from the Dillon Nature Center come visit us today and teach about Arbor Day.  As part of that presentation, each student received a small tree to plant.  If by any chance you do not have room in your yard for the tree, please send it back to school.  We donate them to the city to plant in the parks.  There were several different kinds of trees, and they were of varying sizes - I know that some of the oak trees given out today can grow up to 60' tall and 60' wide!

*Next week is our State Math Assessment week.  We will begin our assessment on Tuesday morning.  It is a 3-session test, just like our reading was, but each session tends to take a little longer than the reading sessions did.  Please continue to practice a 2x2 digit division problem and a long division problem each day, to keep those math skills fresh in your child's mind for the test!

*Next week we are going to begin studying Forces and Motion in science.  On Monday and Tuesday, we will be creating marble ramps, and the students will each need a marble.  If your child has a marble that he/she can bring for science for those 2 days, that would be great!

Let me know if you have any questions!
Carla Goertzen