Hi Families,

We have begun an interesting unit on Animal Life Science. Last week our classes voted to focus our investigations on Alligators as we consider the various aspects of Life Science.

This week we will begin to build from what we learned about the needs of the living (vs. non-living). Students will be challenged to consider how and why animals eat certain foods.

This week's vocabulary includes:

food

hunger

survive

pray

preditor

meat

needs

Students will begin their Animal Journals and collect research on alligators. Our questions this week include: Is an alligator prey or predator? What does an alligator do to survive? How are its needs met?

We are off to a full week of science investigation!