Ms. Lane, Science/Social Studies, Kindergarten
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Science Week of April 22nd
This week is all about Earth Week! (Can I get a wahoo?) We will be learning how we can celebrate Earth Week every week and find ways we can help the planet. This will include making utensil bags! Plastic can take up to 500 years to fully decompose! Yikes! Feel free to give your students a reusable fork or a spoon on Tuesday to place into their utensil bag.
As a fun treat, we will be making Earth Week Pudding! If you’re unsure how to make it, it’s quite simple. You start with the gravel (crushed oreos), add some soil (chocolate pudding), add in a few worms (gummy worms), and finish with some more gravel (more crushed oreos). Voila! You have a tasty treat!
If you would like to provide some of these ingredients for our class we would greatly appreciate it! Here is a sign-up genius. Please have your student bring in the item by Thursday, April 25th, so we can purchase any missing items if necessary.
Science Week of April 15th
Science Week of April 8th
We will begin this week with a quick lesson about eclipses and then we will get to see the solar eclipse from our playground! Don’t worry, families! We will have eclipse glasses and will discuss the importance of wearing them while looking at the sun. Feel free to talk to your kindergartener about that at home as well!
For the rest of the week, students will be preparing for their research project at the end of the year, by practicing informational writing. To start, students will write step by step instructions on how to blow bubbles. We will do this as a class and then they will choose their own topic to describe the steps (how to paint nails, how to make a sandwich, etc).
Social Studies Week of March 18th
Social Studies Week of March 11th
Science Week of February 20th
Social Studies Week of February 12th
Social Studies Week of February 5th
Science Week of January 22nd
Social Studies Week of November 27th
For this social studies unit we will be discussing homes around the world and why homes are important. We will be exploring this through various texts and our own writing.
Social Studies Week of November 13th
Science Week of November 6th
We are continuing to look at physics and learning about how things move. We will be diving into the concepts of push and pull through various texts and writings of our own.
Science Week of October 30th
Social Studies Week of October 23rd
This week and next week we will be exploring a Social Studies unit all about Maps! This week, we will be learning how to use maps, identify features on maps, such as the compass and symbols, and why they are helpful.