Only 2 more weeks until Spring Break!!! Where has the time gone???
Our Star Student for next week will be Ellie! Can't wait to learn more about you, Ellie !!
Thanks to everyone who generously donated items for our AR Celebration! Everyone had a great time!!
In reading, we will continue working on reading comprehension skills (inference, sequence, cause and effect, main idea, finding facts, details, and context clues).
Continue to review Science and Social Studies notebooks!!
In math, we will move on to dividing decimals by whole numbers. Keep practicing multiplying decimals.
CRCT is just around the corner!!!! Please check your child's agenda in the next coming weeks for concepts that need to be reviewed at home. Also continue to take practice CRCT online!
Here are some great words to use and study at home.
Trace - outline, sequence, step-by-step, time line
Analyze - break down, separate, small pieces
Infer - read between the lines, find clues
Evaluate - judge, decide, rate
Formulate - solve, create, plan, decide, build
Describe - tell about, include the 5W's and H (who, what, when, where, why, how)
Support - defend, tell why, prove it, give reasons
Explain - tell about, give reasons, how does it work
Summarize - tell about, retell, main idea
Compare - same
Contrast - different
Predict - future, what will happen, forecast
Upcoming Events:
Field Trip to Kennesaw Mountain High School Drama Performance- March 25
Spring Break - April 6-10
Spring Fling - April 18
Question of the Week: You and 2 other friends enter into a contest. you all win the prize of $30.75. How much money does each person get if the prize is divided equally among you? Explain how you get your answer. (Turn in your answer by Tuesday)
Here's information about our last Science unit - Ecosystems. Take some time to study these standards at home.
S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms.
d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.
S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features (for example: camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.).
b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms.
Chain Reaction: A Flash site from Ecokids about food chains. It provides opportunities for discussion and is clearly presented and illustrated.
Food Webs and the Energy Flow Food webs and food chains show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Nature's Web - Check out the connections between animals that live thousands of miles apart.
Ball of Wool Game : This activity demonstrates the complexity of food webs and how living things in a habitat are interrelated.
Interdependence and Adaptation - interactive activity
E-Trip: Biscayne National Park - an underwater ecosystem adventure
Unique Animal Adaptions:
Shoreline Animals
Temperate Ocean Animals
Tropical Ocean Animals
Plant Adaptions in Different Ecosystems
Plants and Life on Earth
E-Trip: Glacier Bay - A Living Laboratory for Studying Marine Mammals
Threat of Extinctions:
Georgia's Threatened and Extinct Plants and Animals
Wildlife at Risk from the National Federation of Wildlife
Why Save Endangered Animals?
Endangered and Threatened Species
