YAY! We have sprouts! This means we are ready for the next step of our project. Our students have carefully put together a supply list of things we will need for the rest of our project. Please take a look at the list and see if there is anything you are able to donate. You do not have to buy from Amazon, but we do need to make sure that we have the exact same product that is listed on our Wish List. Our students spent a lot of time making sure that we picked the best product, and can explain to you why we can't have different brands. :) Click the link below to check out our wish list. We have a major coming up this Wednesday, Oct. 25th. It will be multiple choice and will cover everything we have learned about plants so far: parts, functions, and processes. I have attached the study guide answer key below. Please make sure that your child is reviewing our class notes in addition to the study guide. The attached sheet is meant to be a guide for studying and does not cover every single concept we have discussed in class.
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We will be having our first major of the unit next Wednesday, 10/25. Students will be getting a study guide in class on Monday. This multiple choice test will cover plant parts and their functions and processes.
Topics to review: plant parts/functions quiz, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, & transpiration notes We have finally gotten through our research stations for the TomatoSphere project. If you haven't already, ask your child to show you what they've been working on in Google Classroom. If your child's group didn't get finished over the last three days in class, they will need to complete it for homework. The quiz tomorrow will cover the parts of the flower (study labeled diagram of flower parts) and their functions (study the descriptions of what they do). In case your child has misplaced theirs, my completed copy of the note sheet is attached. Reminders: We are looking for lily donations so that we can dissection flowers on Friday. Please send in ASAP if you are able. We appreciate your support! If you would like to volunteer to come help out with the flower dissection, send me an e-mail. We would love to have you! We will also be looking for donations for the TomatoSphere project, once we make our class supply lists. We will be working on that tomorrow, and will hopefully start planting on Thursday. I know it sounds like a quick turn-around, but I will be purchasing the supplies to start the seed growth. The donated materials will be used a little later in the process. Your child should be able to explain this to you! :)
Whew, we have gotten a lot accomplished within this first week of the quarter! We started out this week by reviewing and "focusing" our Social Contracts. Each class worked through a process to pick out the 5 expectations from their Social Contract that they thought were the most important and that we should focus on for this second quarter. We also learned about the reproductive structures of a flowering plant (see my copy below). Your child's homework this week was to review these notes each night for at least 15 minutes. We will have a MINOR quiz on this next week. The date has not yet been determined. It will not be open-note, but will be very similar to the notes page. We will also be dissecting a lily next week to get a better look at these different flower parts. If you are able to donate, we would love to have at least 5-6 lilies per class. Please send in donations Monday or Tuesday. Our first grade for this quarter was due in class today. It is called the "Mystery Missing Flower Parts." This was an in-class assignment from Wednesday, but was able to be taken home if students didn't finish in class. If your child did not turn this in and does not have their copy at home to work on, they can pick up an extra copy on Monday. If it is turned in Monday, there will only be a 5% late deduction. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the deduction will be 10%. It cannot be turned in after Wednesday. You may have heard that we are starting a VERY EXCITING project this quarter. We are partnering with the TomatoSphere project to collect data about the germination rates of tomato seeds if they have been sent to space. We have received two packets of seeds: one went to the International Space Station and the other is a control, but we don;t get to know which is which! Yes, this is a very REAL project. We will be submitting our results back to the project manager and the data will be used to help with future space exploration! Your child started their background research today in Google Classroom. Feel free to have them add you to the class so that you can stay up-to-date with what we are doing with the project. We will need supply donations for this project, but I do not have the list yet. It will be posted later this week. Students will be responsible for determining and creating our final supply list. We would also LOVE to have your help with this project! If you'd like to volunteer to help with ANY part of this project or if you are an expert in any of the topics we are exploring, please send me an e-mail and we'll see where we can work you into our schedule. Homework for parents? One of the most common concerns that parents are voicing during conferences is that of our communication. We are frequently hearing that there is just too much communication happening in too many different places, which is a little overwhelming. I hear your concern. If you have a free 10-15 minutes, please fill out the following survey about our various forms of communication. *Because it is a Google Form, it may require you to log into a Google account. If your e-mail is not through Google, fret not. Your child can sign in under their school account. Then, once in the survey, there is a place to put your name and an alternate e-mail address. Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5d2xIAbXdrwGTHEnbL4B0GqYVCW9Hc9pfeqgenWqyxBwzyA/viewform
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Extra help is available every Tuesday from 3:30-4:30. Please remember that you MUST fill out a permission form (below) and turn it in the day before in order to attend.
Volunteer?For some of our projects this year, I will be asking for parent volunteers. If you already know that you would like to volunteer in the future, please contact me. Otherwise, the need for parent volunteers will be included in the weekly update. Thank you! :) Archives
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