Ah, Spring Break. It was glorious, if far too short. I painted the exterior of my house over the break. Well, most of it. 5 gallons into the job, and we're almost done. Stupid textured asbestos tile.
To recap what we did on the last week prior to spring break...
Monday- We took notes on biomes. I adapted an accordion foldable from this foldable bundle.
We then did a biome coloring map. The kids needed a bit of instruction (we labeled the countries together) and they found it challenging, but they did well in the end.
Tuesday- We talked about adaptations that organisms have to live on land. Just a brief overview, though we did talk about a few specific things (bird beaks or feet always seem to end up on the STAAR test).
Wednesday- We talked about adaptations that organisms have to live in water. Again, we made sure to talk about webbed feet because that's another big STAAR favorite.
Thursday- We learned about inherited traits, and then took class-wide polls to see how many of us had these traits. We'll be using this data to make a giant bar graph next week.
Friday- We learned about learned traits, and again, took class-wide polls.
Butterfly Update- All of our caterpillars went into their pupa stage before we left for spring break (except the one who was behind by a few days). I went to check on them Saturday and a few of them had hatched. I left them with their feeder and when I returned Monday, they had all hatched (again, save for Itty Bitty who is still in his pupa.) We released a few of them today during recess, and the kids were fascinated!
10 more weeks of school left. We have STAAR math and reading next week, then my benchmark, then a month of STAAR review. It's going to get crazy, folks.
Hope you enjoyed your spring break!
~Ms. Kat
To recap what we did on the last week prior to spring break...
Monday- We took notes on biomes. I adapted an accordion foldable from this foldable bundle.
We then did a biome coloring map. The kids needed a bit of instruction (we labeled the countries together) and they found it challenging, but they did well in the end.
Tuesday- We talked about adaptations that organisms have to live on land. Just a brief overview, though we did talk about a few specific things (bird beaks or feet always seem to end up on the STAAR test).
Wednesday- We talked about adaptations that organisms have to live in water. Again, we made sure to talk about webbed feet because that's another big STAAR favorite.
Thursday- We learned about inherited traits, and then took class-wide polls to see how many of us had these traits. We'll be using this data to make a giant bar graph next week.
Friday- We learned about learned traits, and again, took class-wide polls.
Hope you enjoyed your spring break!
~Ms. Kat
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