What Plants Need To Survive

Students are recording their observations of our plant experiment in a journal to track changes in the plants over time.
This student wrote "The plants look like they have a white flower.  And the flower looks closed."

STEAM EXPO Time
Our next STEAM Expo night is scheduled for Thursday, March 31st from 5:30 - 7:00 PM.  Here is a video with even more information.

Home Reading Book Bags
Sorry it took me so long to return those book bags last week.  Thanks for reading, sorry I slowed you down last week.

No School This Friday
There is no school this Friday, March 25th.

Letter Writing Paper
You may have noticed students have been writing personal letters to their friends, siblings, and to you!  Here is the paper that I use in Room K-3 to help facilitate this letter writing.  I encourage you to have your child use it at home to write to grandparents, neighbors, favorite aunts and uncles, etc.  Kids love mailing a letter in a mailbox.

Curriculum Overview
Science - In our current Project Based Learning unit we are studying the needs of plants and animals and how plants and animals adapt to and change their environment to meet those needs.  This week we are focusing on how animals change the environment to meet their needs: beavers fell trees to make a lodge for shelter, squirrels dig holes in the ground to store nuts, ants dig tunnels for shelter.

Math - Students are graphing the data from our PBL plant experiment.  We also studied pictographs and line graphs closely.  This week will review bar graphs as well as addition and subtraction.

Literacy - We continue to look at the features of nonfiction texts as we study the needs of living things for our Project Based Learning unit.  Students are learning how to use an index, table of contents, and how to understand captions and sidebars.

Writing - Students are recording their observations of our plant experiment in a journal that tracks changes in the plants over time.

Word Study - We are focused on the words that we need for our current PBL unit: observation, survive, plant, inch, stem, leaf, roots, control group, variable.  And for our study of animals: wild, domestic, mammal, amphibian, insect, carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore.

Students are tracking the height of the plants in our experiment designed to prove that plants need light, water, and air to survive.  This is the no light group.