{"id":2588,"date":"2016-04-07T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:26:15","slug":"growing-alligators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/2016\/04\/07\/growing-alligators\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Alligators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families,<\/p>\n<p>It all started with the book Zach&#8217;s Alligator!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2589\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2589\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"growing alligators 014\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-014.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucky for us, we have a Zach in our class and he has an alligator!:) \u00a0In fact, your child should have two alligators. \u00a0Yes, the kindergarten Science Fair Boot Camp experiment was sent home yesterday. \u00a0Boy, were our kindergarten scientists ever excited! \u00a0Each day, I will model the experiment in class so your child should have a pretty good understanding of what to do each night.\u00a0 The experiment takes 7 days \u00a0so you will want to start soon. \u00a0Yes, I will be taking &#8220;Bridget&#8221; the class alligator (and main character in the book)\u00a0home over the weekend and continue to post it growth on the blog. \u00a0In the past, we have found that kindergartners have had trouble with \u00a0measuring each dinosaur. \u00a0However, before you know it that we become easier too.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Bridget on Day 1: \u00a0She is measuring at 2 1\/2 inches long. (Yes, she is smaller than the dinosaurs that were sent home!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2590\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"growing alligators 020\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-020.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a class, we came up with this question. \u00a0We already put it on the science board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-021-e1460052699296.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2591\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-021-e1460052699296-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"growing alligators 021\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-021-e1460052699296-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-021-e1460052699296-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2016\/04\/growing-alligators-021-e1460052699296.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 3: \u00a0Bridget grew!! \u00a0She now is 3 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will work on the hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for Bridget&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wright<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families, It all started with the book Zach&#8217;s Alligator! Lucky for us, we have a Zach in our class and he has an alligator!:) \u00a0In fact, your child should have two alligators. \u00a0Yes, the kindergarten Science Fair Boot Camp experiment was sent home yesterday. \u00a0Boy, were our kindergarten scientists ever excited! \u00a0Each day, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wrightt1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}