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Terrier News
Books, Books, and More Books with Mrs. Graves
We’re now heading down the final stretch for the 2013 2014 school year! The last day to check out materials
is Friday, May 30th and all items are due on Tuesday, June
9th. Please encourage your son/daughter to return their library materials so they can start next fall with a clean slate.
If you notice any books under your sofa, on your counter,
or elsewhere in your house or in your car, remind your
young person to return them to the library. We will be
sending out notices weekly to students in an attempt to collect all library materials and fines before the school year
ends. If you child has returned all of his/her books by the
deadline of June 9th, they will be eligible for summer book
checkout. Please have your child check with Ms. Graves in
the library if they are interested in this opportunity. If you
have any questions I can be reached by email
at [email protected].
Where the Wild Things Are with Mr. Ferenc
The 5/6 has been continuing its investigation of living things in the realm of ecology the students have
been gathering information about how living things
feed themselves through food webs. Whether a producer or consumer, all loving things interact
within their environment, share common needs and
share common characteristics. With all organisms
exhibiting the basic needs for survival, food webs
were a hot topic.
The students did an amazing job with a Neely developed interactive food web simulation game known
as "The Game of Wild." Wild is an interactive tag
game that revolves around the food web of our environment with organisms the students are familiar
with. Students mastered the terms producer, decomposer, pri mary consumer, secondary consumer and
tertiary consumer as they acted out a real life food
web.
Most recently the students have been working on the
following questions: what causes living things to
change over time? How do loving things go extinct?
And, what would happen if there were no more humans on Earth?
My Easy-Bake Solar Oven with Mrs. Bizaoui
In science for the month of June, we will be focused on finishing up our solar oven project and completing our chemistry
unit. Students built solar ovens in class with the challenge of changing a variable to see if they can improve the efficiency
of their design. Most of the student groups have collected their temperature data from the ovens although a couple of
classes are behind due to cloudy mornings. After our data collection, students will be designing a tri-fold mini poster
where they will exhibit their experimental process. This will include a title, background information, pictures of their
oven, their graphed data and their conclusions.
We are working on understanding the basic building block of matter, the
atom. Students are finished with their Adopt an Element project and I will be displaying their advertisements in a gigantic periodic table that will cover my back
wall next year and assemble their biographies into a class book to live on. The
current focus is on how atoms bond to form molecules.We will soon have a review
session as well as a jeopardy game to prepare for our final science test of the
year.
This has been a fantastic year of studying matter and energy. I hope that students
will continue to recognize the concepts we have learned about in their everyday
living and to show enthusiasm towards learning about our universe!