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This will be the first post that is important for anyone in Gravley's homeroom to read since Welte's homeroom is now in their first Social Studies unit - please see Mrs. Gravley's website for more information. During students first unit in science they will explore how plants and animals have internal and external structures to support growth, reproduction, survival, and behavior. Students will learn about plant structures from lessons 1-4 and then animal structures from lessons 5-9. Students will be graded on in-class participation through investigations and class notes as well as lesson quizzes and two larger assessments (one after lesson 4 and one after lesson 9). The in-class notes are grades on a four-point rubric. If students are absent or out of the classroom for an extended amount of time for any reason, it is their responsibility to inform me of that by writing "Out for ___" or "Absent" on any parts of the in-class notes they may have missed. I'm looking forward to working with Mrs. Gravley's homeroom class for the next approximately 25 instructional days. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, comments or concerns.
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You'll see in Illuminate I've posted grades on both the quizzes and the science notebooks. Science notebooks are graded as a participatory grade so if almost all or all of the packet is complete, students earn a 4/4 whereas if there is almost all but missing a few pieces, students earn a 3/4. Students quizzes are administered after the lesson.
Next Tuesday is our last day together which means our last day to observe and enjoy our pill bugs which we were using to try to answer the question, "How do pill bugs change their environment?" We will finish Lesson 9 tomorrow and take the Lesson 9 quiz. Wednesday will be our first day of Unit 1 in Social Studies for Welte's homeroom class. This week our focus is on the structures animals have to support their movement and reproduction. In terms of our pill bug investigation, we have been observing some of the pill bugs playing dead when we disturb their environment too much. We investigated with hand lenses to see how many legs they actually have and we've been observing their overall environment to see if they change their environment at all. We will end science on September 27th. After that, my homeroom class will have Mrs. Gravley for approximately 25 instructional days in Social Studies.
This week we are learning more about the structures animals use to support movement, reproduction and digestion. Tomorrow we will begin a super exciting investigation that I will avoid going into details about because I don't want to spoil it but I'll let you guess based on the picture below... :)
Today was super fun since it was our first whole class investigation! I wish I had thought to snap photos but I was so engaged and wrapped up in what we were doing - I totally forgot! Kinda like my high school prom night ;)
We dissected a flower today using forceps, hand lenses, and gladiolus. Ask your child if they can identify the female and male parts of a flower. We will be learning about animals in the next week but we will not be dissecting any... thank goodness! :) |
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