Food Webs

Here's a website from Austrialia. Have fun exploring 4 different food webs!!

Want some more info? Click HERE. When the page opens, click on the oval shape that says "Play the Game." This website has lots of other interesting activities and information.

Let me know what you think.

Science!!

We have been studying ecosystems, food chains, and food webs. Not sure what they are? Check out our on-line glossary over on the right! -->--->--->--->

Check out the review activity on food chains and food webs!!

Click here to test your vocabulary.

We have also been investigating what can cause changes in ecosystems and these changes can affect the organisms that live there. Click here for a short review of changes in ecosystems and click here for vocabulary work.

Word Work Feb. 01 - 05

This week's word sort involves the /ow/ sound (as in plow and couch). We are trying to determine if there are any predictable spelling patterns to help us determine when to use "ow" and when to use "ou." We also have several oddball words that do not fit the sound and spelling patterns.

ou

sound, cloud, found, ground, pound, shout, count, mouth, south, couch, scout

ow

brown, clown, growl, howl, owl, crown, drown, frown, gown, plow, town

oddball

tough, rough

grown

Several "noticings" from 2/02/10:

~All of the words that use the "ow" spelling pattern seem to end in a single consonant.

In our list of words, these single consonants are: N and L.

~Most of the words that use the "ou" spelling end in double consonants, like "nd" and "th."

What do you notice?

Word Work Jan 25-29

This week's Word Work has a word sort that helps students compare and contrast two vowel sounds the broad -a (wa) sound and two different spellings of the /aw/ sound (al and ou).

wa

watch, wash, wand, wasp, swap, swat

al

small, almost, also, walk, tall, salt, calm, talk, stalk, bald, chalk, stall

ou

thought, bought, brought, fought, ought, cought

1/25 Introduced words by practicing reading each word aloud and discussing meanings. Students discovered that many of these words have more than one meaning and can be used as more than one part of speech. For example, watch can mean to look at something but it can also mean the watch that is worn on the wrist!

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Math

Last week we started studying Solids and Shapes. First we looked at solid figures. These are 3-dimensional (3-D) figures that have length, width and height. In other words, they take up space.

image from www.mathisfun.com

Some common solid figures are spheres, cones, cubes, pyramids, cylinders and rectangular prisms.

The students also discovered that shapes can be used to describe some of the characteristics of some solid figures. For example, we learned that a rectangular prism has faces that are in the shapes of rectangles and squares. We learned that the flat surfaces of solid figures are called faces. When two faces meet they form a corner know

n as an edge. And th

e point where three or more edges meet is called a vertex.

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We also investigated polygons.

Polygons are 2 dimensional figures that are made up of just line segments and are also closed.

This is a polygon, it is made of only line segments

and is a closed figure.

This is not a polygon. It is made up of both line segments

and a curved piece.

This is not a polygon. Even though it is made of only line segments, it is not a closed figure.

My apologies

Sorry it has been so long since I posted any new materials. I can't believe how fast time goes by. I will try to post more often during my last two weeks of student teaching at Fortes.

Mrs. Bomster