Thursday, May 31, 2018

What a busy week we have had!  Our caterpillars arrived and have grown quite a bit in just a few short days.  We are keeping them in a large mesh laundry hamper and feeding them daily.  Although there were five initially, two have gone missing.  Our fingers are crossed that over the weekend one of our survivors forms a chrysalis.

Our big idea question this week in science was, "How are caterpillars and plants similar?"  Our discussions brought up the following points:

-they both can grow

-they both reproduce

-they both have life cycles

-they both can die

-they both need food (plants can make their own food through photosynthesis)

This list helped us decide whether something was a living organism or not.  We were then able to sort living and nonliving things.

We had a special visitor on Tuesday- Ray's baby sister Amy!  She warmed our whole day and week!  

In math, we are busy reviewing our addition/subtraction and number sense skills.  We played a variety of games to help with this.  Here, the boys are arranging number cards in order from least to greatest:

In social studies, we used our graphic organizers from last week (which had key points about the past and present) to practice persuasive writing.  Some kids argued that it was better to live 100 years ago, and others stated the present was more desirable.

Reminders:

• June 4: Read my shirt day
• June 5: Ride your bike to school day
• June 6: Crazy hair/hat day
• June 7: Crazy sock day
• June 8: The Great Book Exchange, fun lunch, all library books due, beach theme day