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?