Hello there.
Thanks for the speedy return of the permission slips to the zoo. Those that still need to, please do so as soon as you can. They are due no later than Friday.
As you can see our worm farm is still looking pretty active. I snapped a few shots this morning when I first came in. I meant to show the class these when we were doing science but I forgot. Please share them with them now. See how the worm is curled up in a spiral. Ask your child how this is possible for a worm to do. If they can tell you write the word invertebrate in the planner for $20. You can also see the other worm making a burrow (tunnel). Super, super cool. The kids have enjoyed just hanging out observing the farm each day.
As you can also see we were busy, busy, busy in reading class today. The ecosystem reports have begun. Today, we did our paper towel food chain. Kids had to start with a top predator and make their way down the chain to the producer. We also began to post our Wordles of our consumers, producers, and non-living objects. What is a wordle? Ask your kiddo!!! Tomorrow we will continue on with our predator/prey mystery doors and animal/plant adaptation wheels. They are starting to come together. Hopefully they will be done by Friday! Remember, those dioramas are due on Thursday. Some kids shared today that they have yet to start. This part is worth 25 of the 100 points. If they don't have one on Thursday they will be down to a C already. Yikes! Please encourage them to get going.
Full Credit Diorama Reminders:
*living plants AND animals (labeled)
*non-living objects
*Ecosystem name
*Student name
*Size of a shoebox at least
*Evident and obvious 4th grade effort
At the end of the day, we did a fun interdependence lab with Cheetos. I used them to demonstrate how a bee or butterfly helps a flower using pollination. Ask your child to share how this was done and what it means. If they can tell you, write the word Cheetos in the planner for $20 tomorrow.
We took our first Sitton Spelling test today. EVERYBODY passed!!!! I had a ton of hundreds. I think now they know that it is not as hard as they thought. They came home with Lesson 2 to study tonight.
States and Capitals test is this Friday.
Just a reminder that I will be gone this Friday for MT. History. I will also be gone on Monday and Tuesday of the next week. Monday is my little sister's birthday. She passed away almost two years ago and she was my best friend. It is just a day that I like to take and go up in the mountains to spend time with her. Her ashes were spread in Red Lodge. It is usually a rough day for me, and it is best that I am not at school that day. Tuesday, I have my little Beau's music program and then I am taking him to lunch for a little prince date with mom. We will be coming to school after lunch though to hear the worm lady's presentation and for the kids to meet Beau. I always talk about them, but they have yet to meet him. :0) Mr. Pertuit will be their sub all three days. He was their sub for PE/HE when Mrs. Buss had her baby. They love him, and they will for sure not miss me one bit with him in the house! Yay! I will blog on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday just like normal.
Mr. English mentioned a bike rodeo here at Bitterroot on April 24th today on Tuesday News Day. I am guessing there will be more information being sent home. I will let you know when I know! I am sure it will be a lot of fun! He even mentioned giving away a couple of bikes. Wowzers! More information to come.
Don't forget to mark those calendars for our STEM Science night here at Bitterroot on April 26th. There will be many fun stations for your kiddos to go through and participate in all sorts of science labs. I can't wait to do this!!!! Many of the kids in here are helping out at a station as well. If that is your kiddo, you have already received a permission slip from Mrs. Gleason earlier this week.
Well, that about covers it. Have a wonderful night!
