Here are a few of their animals:
In Science, the kiddos studied animal adaptations. As their culminating activity, they created a "new" animal, adding "adaptations" to it that help it survive in it's habitat. They needed to utilize the natural adaptations that animals use but the combinations were limitless :) They also needed to write a 3 paragraph essay that summarized their animals adaptations and how they used them to survive. Here are a few of their animals:
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We were blessed with AMAZING weather for our Conservation trip last Monday. We had a great time learning about how to help conserve the earth this last week. We traveled around to different stations learning about renewable energy, what to reduce, reuse, and recycle, why soil is so important, how to check for polluted water, the importance of trees, which wild animals we have and what they do for our environment, and about the different climates across the United States. With the weather a bit on the chillier side, we traveled up to Kalamazoo for a rock and mineral expo as well as a visit to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. At the Expo, students were given presentations by Western College students on rocks and minerals, they participated in hands on activities such as "making a moon crater" and "porous rocks". After the presentations, the students traveled around the show with their chaperones and purchased rocks for their own collections. We ended the day at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. If you have not visited there with your family YOU MUST! It is totally free and open all summer long. There is so much there to explore that it is not possible to get it all done in one short afternoon. Students can act out news anchors, weather men, restaurant workers, be an old general store keeper, see a real life mummy, work as a blacksmith, play musical instruments, and more. On special exhibit on the top floor, there is currently a "How they Make It" exhibit where students can REALLY MAKE things that our factories produce including paper cut outs, plastic spoons, cardboard boxes, wax candles, bowls, and fake crushed pennies. It really is worth a visit! The upstairs visits are not permanent so this one will not be there for long. We were also able to get a presentation on how to "cook up a comet" and, after making one, threw it into the river to watch it display comet like behavior. Finally, we walked down to the Carnegie Center to view our very own ART on display through the month of May. We had a great time seeing each others art and feeling like real artists! We also found a little gem - apparently, one of our very own parents is an artist as well :0) Last Tuesday, Students "visited" colonial Williamsburg and simulated what life was like in the early American colonies. We visited many parts including a shoemakers shop, A milliner (female and hat maker) and Tailor shop (male clothing maker), Governor's Palace, Raleigh Tavern and Public House, Dame School (school where girls learn how to be a lady/hostess), College (Boy's School - reading, writing, arithmetic, Latin, geography), and a computer colonial persons simulation game. Here is a photo tour of our field trip to Colonial Williamsburg! Measuring and designing colonial shoes as shoe makers and apprentices. Learning how to serve tea and sew at Dame School. Acting as colonial governor and putting our democratic skills to use - Signing or rejecting important bills presented from the colonists. Helping the tailor and milliner dress each colonial social person for their day including Poor farmers, African Slaves - both house slaves and field slaves, middling (middle class), and gentry using this website: Learning how to write with a quill pen at the College of William and Mary. Enjoying some relaxation, refreshments, and a game with friends at the Raleigh Tavern and Public House. Learning about how different people lived, worked, interacted, and relaxed in colonial America using this website: |
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