What’s Happening in Science this week – 10/20 – 10/23

This week we have began our Animal Adaptation unit. This unit is being led by my fabulous student teacher, Mrs. Sartin. We will have our next notebook check on Monday of next week (10/26.) This will cover notebook pages 52 – 57. We will be testing on Wednesday, November 4th.

Tuesday – Today we viewed an Animal Adaptations PowerPoint and completed a booklet. This booklet is our daily week grade for the week. This is notebook page 52.

Wednesday – Today we read 3 passages about giraffes, elephants, and geckos. We identified the structural adaptations that helped it to survive. This is page 53. We also completed Day 1 – Day 3 of adaptations warm-up. This was on page 54 of our notebook.

Thursday – We will review the warm-ups and finish NB 53 Read It. We will be reading and describing the structural adaptations of agave plants and earthworms.

Friday – Today we are completing our Tech It page on NB 55.

** These resources were purchased from the Science Penguins teachers pay teachers store. The link is here.

Animal Adaptations — 4/6 to 4/8

For the next two weeks we are trying to finish up our last standard for 4th grade Science. We are working from our Week 22 newsletter – Competition and Adaptation at the beginning of the week.

Monday –

We are reading and highlighting from our Newsletter today. Students will be able to use their newsletter on their quiz on Wednesday. It will consist of 10 questions.

Tuesday –

Today we are watching a study jam on animal adaptations. Afterwards, we are completing a PowerPoint/Booklet on Animal Adaptations. This is a great resource — I bought it from the Science Penguin here. This booklet will be our Daily Work grade for the week.

Wednesday –

We are taking our Week 22 newsletter and starting to learn about life cycles.