What’s Buggin’ You?
What's Buggin' You? Can insects be helpful to us? Today, let's explore some ways insects can help provide food and keep our environment healthy!

Today’s Activities

Watch & Read

Read this article and find out how bugs might be good….to eat!

Brain Teasers!

Brain Teasers! Challenge yourself to solve these math puzzles. Share one or more with someone else and explain your thinking.

Leveled learning extension 1: Reinforce your math skills with these pages which offer more basic math problems! 

Leveled learning extension 2: Tease your brain with these worksheets to target foundational math skills! 

Worksheet 1 

Worksheet 2

Decomposers!

Decomposers! Let’s take a virtual field trip this week to Foothill Horizons Outdoor School here in Tuolumne County, then head out to your own back yard to see what decomposers you can find. Can you make a table to categorize and count decomposers in your yard? Can you come up with questions about the data in your table? Here’s an example. 

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Speech and Language

Focus on giving information: If you could change the name of the area you live in, what would you change it to? Discuss with someone in your home, the new name you would give your town and why you chose that name?

More 4th Grade Lessons

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Year in Review

Year in Review

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Fail Forward

Fail Forward

Today's ActivitiesDiscuss this picture with an adult at home.  What do you think it means?  Why do you think the illustrator chose an iceberg to represent success? Lookup any of the words under the water, labeled “What People Don’t See,” that you don’t know in a...

Field Day!

Field Day!

Today's ActivitiesWatch “Miss Nelson Has a Field Day” and fill out this story map to describe the plot elements.First, draw a large chalk 10 by 10 grid on the blacktop or sidewalk. Mark the numbers 1 through 10 along the top and down the left side. Get beanbags (or...