Math and Science Week of April 15th-19th

Parents,

This week will be nothing short of a cramming session for finals!  All week long in Math we will study old concepts in whole group, partners, and alone.  In the early part of this week, we will be going over Objective 1, which covers all number sense.  The kids will be working on ordering numbers, comparing numbers, fractions, money, and place value.  On Tuesday, we will take a quiz independently over these objectives.  Towards the latter part of the week, we will be working on 3-D attributes, temperature, reading graphs and charts, area, and perimeter.  The kids have been enjoying so far working hard in pairs to be the group that receives a 100 on their review packets.  It's become quite the competition in the classroom and I am proud that the kids are taking their learning seriously.

Fast Facts will again be Addition and Subtraction.

In Science we have been studying Living and Non-Living things.  In order for something to be classified as "living," it must be alive or it must have been alive at some point.  There are three characteristics that we are using to qualify something as living:

1. It MUST reproduce
2. It must acquire or make food
3.It MUST grow/move

This discussion on living and non-living things has led us into studying habitats and ecosystems and how species in the same population have to compete for resources.

This week we will dive into the study of ecosystems a little more and how different species depend on one another and how an entire Ecosystem can be thrown off if just one of those populations in the Ecosystem becomes less/more.  Towards the end of the week, we will study food chains in a specific ecosystem and make illustrations that display the chain of events that happen in a Food Chain.  

Progress Reports will go home this Friday!

Love,
Mrs. S