Tuesday is a 3rd grade only field trip 

We will be doing our last lesson in our ecosystems unit- What can we learn from fossils? 

Working on our adaptation projects and using clay to sculpt our new creatures we created! 

Lesson 4- Why do some animals form groups?

Lesson 4 activity- working in groups versus working alone (building things) 

Lesson 5- What are some disadvantages of living in a group?

Lesson 6- Why do animals and plants live in different habitats?

Lesson 7- How do arctic animals stay warm?

Essential questions we will be going over this week: 

 

How is energy transferred in an ecosystem?

Why do some animals form groups?

We will be working on experiments this whole week, please make sure to send your student in with their things they need in order to complete their experiments. 

If you have any questions about what they need to bring please feel free to email me! We do have several students who have not started their experiments yet. The science fair is on March 20th 

We will continue to work on experiments this week. 

As students are finishing up their experiments, we will start working on their tri- folds. The tri-folds will be provided by the school. 

Students will also be working on power points about any Science topic they choose! 

 

The Science Fair will be held on March 20th from 4:15-5:00 PM for families. During this time you will be able to come in and see all the amazing work our students have done! We will post a flyer on edlio closer to the event with details. 

 

We are starting experiments on Monday, February 24. Please make sure your student comes to school with the supplies they need in order to do their experiment. I can hold this in my classroom but please put your students supplies in a labeled bag or any bag to ensure it does not get mixed up with other experiments. Students will have until March 14th to do their experiments. The following week students will be working on their tri-folds until the day of the Science Fair. 

 

*If your student needs some special for their experiment ( candy, bath bombs, fruits etc. ) that needs to be provided by the family/guardians of the student. If you student has a partner they should work out who is bringing what so one student is not getting all the materials. 

For this week, we will continue to work on the Science fair. Any questions about the timeline for the Science fair, please refer to my link with the attached schedule in a previous post. 

 

In order to keep track of experiment materials, students should come in with their materials in a bag with their name on it. Do not start brining things in until February 18th or else my classroom gets cluttered. 

 

Also there will be some materials I will provide for the science fair those include the following:

Paper plates, cups, plastic utensils, measuring cups, bowls, salt, pepper, aluminum foil, and wax paper. 

 

If I am missing anything on this list I will make sure to update it. Anything else special for their experiments need to be bought by guardians. Students should be coming home next week with a material list for their experiments. If they are with a partner, they will split the materials and decided who is getting what. 

We will be starting things for the science fair. Once the Science fair comes closer I will send a more detailed update. For the Science fair, their experiments they will be done at school and should not be done at home unless instructed by me. 

This week we will be going over the scientific method, picking their scientific question, and seeing who their partner is if they wanted a partner. 

If you have any questions about the science fair please feel free to email me! 

Life cycle drawing of an insect, integrating Literacy into our Science class by researching our animal for our expository essay, and we will be going over the scientific method since next week we are starting to talk about the science fair! 

 

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MONDAY NO SCHOOL 

Things we will be doing: our last 2 units in our life cycle science unit. Pollination and animal life cycles 

We will be doing a kahoot to review for the Science Life Cycles Test on Friday.