Week of March 9th

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On Tuesday we had Hands on Nature.  The focus for this month was:  White-tailed deer are big animals and require a lot of food to survive, so they can have a profound effect on the forests in which they live, and on the many other inhabitants as well. As plant-eaters, seed-planters and sometimes food for large predators, deer are connected in countless ways to the other living things in their woodland homes.  We saw a puppet show which taught us about some ways that deer and other inhabitants of the forest depend on each other.  We weighted some twigs to get an idea of how much a deer has to eat each day to survive the winter.  We got to see a real skull and lower jaw of a deer.  We saw what twigs look like after a deer eats from them.  We saw real antlers, a pelt from a deer and a thin leg and pointy hoof.  We ended the session with a slide show to learn how deer visit different parts of their home ranges as their needs change over the year.  The favorite slide was the one where it is difficult for the deer to be seen among the woods.  I'd like to thank Janet and Marcella for coming in and helping us to learn about deer!

In writing we learned about writing better introductions and conclusions.  We also learned how to fix our writing by being readers.  Our plan is to share our final products with our families in a little over a week.  Invitations went home today.

In math we continue to learn about addition and subtraction strategies while solving problems about penguins.

In science we wrapped up our second rotation of engineering units.  Next week we will be doing an inquiry based task for science and on March 24th we will start our final rotation for our engineering groups.

This is a note from Diana Burritt:

The April 7th Mixed Grade Level Concert with Mrs. Burritt will be postponed to a later date. Thank you.


Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy