One of our Class Helper’s jobs… giving our worm farm a good moisture-producing rain-spray!
This week in Our Big Backyard…
We talked about the rich, diverse community of Ponds. What is the water’s edge? How is it different from the muddy bottom, the surface film or the open water?
What creatures thrive in Ponds? We looked at how energy is transferred in food chains through primary producers to primary consumers and on to secondary, tertiary and apex consumers. We realized humans like hawks, bears, and coyotes are also apex predators! We also looked at the series of stages a frog goes through as it grows called metamorphosis and how all living creatures have life cycles.
This week’s newsletter is a short and sweet snapshot version as Ms. Kim & Ms. Eliza are two busy bees preparing for Portfolio day…
Surface tension experiments
Alphas added the parts of a pond to their nature journals…
Creating our Alpha Pond…
The Reptiles-Amphibians-Fish team
The Insects team
The Primary Producers team
The Bird team
We need more fish!
Creating life-cycle wheels
Night sky for our owls
Jack shares a special book about the carnivorous dragonfly and the Four-eyed fish who have split eyes that can peek above the water AND under the water at the same time!
Our AMAZING Texas Animals…con’t…
Bald eagle
axolotl
& In Other News…
When pipe cleaners and hair collide!!
Seeing the world through rainbow-colored monocles!
It was a busy week…we wore ourselves out!
