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Week of January 21-25

January 25th, 2019 / / categories: Class News /

 

Young 5’s -Finish making and coloring weather wheel

I can use descriptive word to explain the weather, participate in a weather skit song, and color a daily weather wheel.

I can orally explain today’s weather by using my weather wheel.

Sentence Stems:

Today’s weather feels_________________.

It looks__________________________.

Vocabulary:  weather, today, seasons, temperature, hot, cold, warm, freezing, sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, stormy, windy

Kindergarten

I can learn more details on  how to describe the weather by following along with the Mystery Science activity “Have You Ever Watched a Storm?”.

I can draw a picture describing today’s weather.  In my picture I will make sure I draw what I am wearing and how the sky and ground look.

I can orally explain using sentence stems:

The weather is ________________.  

I am wearing ________________ because it is __________ outside.  

I can see __________________________.

 

First Grade

I can demonstrate knowledge of the moon by observing a movable model of the moon and watching a brainpop video.

I can draw a picture and write a sentence to explain at least 2 new facts that I learned about our moon today.

Sentence Stem:  

I learned that the moon _____________________________________________.

The moon also__________________________________.

ESS1:B

 

Second Grade-(Ms. Earle’s Class)

I can demonstrate how landforms form or change by experimenting in a “Cookie Weathering and Erosion” lab using chocolate chip cookies(landform/rock), straw(wind), toothpick(animals and plants changing rock), and dropper(rain).

I can draw or write to explain my observations of weathering and erosion during the “Cookie Lab”.

Vocabulary:  landforms, mountain, plataeu, mesa, hill, plain, volcano,beaches, island, peninsula, weathering, erosion

ESS1.C      2-ESS1-1

ESS2.A

 

Second Grade-(Younce and Patterson’s classes)

I can demonstrate how landforms form or change by experimenting with an erosion lab where we let rain fall(cup with holes filled with water) on a created landform made of sand.

I can draw and write to explain my observations of what happened to the landform after water had been raining on it.

*Draw a before and after picture of landform and explain the changes.

Vocabulary:  landforms, mountain, plataeu, mesa, hill, plain, volcano,beaches, island, peninsula, weathering, erosion, deposition

ESS1.C      2-ESS1-1

ESS2.A

Third Grade-(Continuation of last week)

I can demonstrate comprehension of various climates by color coding a world map according to climate zones(Polar/cold, Temperate,Warm, Tropical) and picking a place I would travel to for the climate.

I can draw or write to explain what I should pack and wear if I was traveling to ________________.

Sentence Stems:

The different climate zones are_______________________.

If I could pick a climate to live in, it would be _________________

Because_________________________________________.

I would pack_____________________________.

I would wear______________________________________.

Vocabulary:  climate zones, Polar, Temperate, Tropical, Arid, Mediterranean, Tundra

Fourth Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of fossils by exploring real fossil rocks and working in a group as  paleontologists to figure out what one can learn from a fossil structure of a Stegosaurus.

I can write and draw to explain facts about my fossil and predict about the organism.

Vocabulary:  Earth Processes, fossils, Paleontologist, organisms, extinct, structure, behavior

4-ESS1-1

“STEM Activity”- Alien Space Lander

Planning  and sharing of plans day!  Next week create and test day:)

(Activity takes 2 class periods)

I can demonstrate application of the Engineering Process by creating an alien space lander with a shock-absorber and stabilizer that can land 2 aliens (marshmallows) safely onto Earth(using only materials provided) following the engineering steps: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve, and Present.

I can draw or write to explain my groups plan to create a space lander and explain any improvements needed.

Vocabulary:  Stabilizer, Shock-Absorber

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