Science Web Sites

Today we worked on food chains and webs, and the jobs of producers, consumers and decomposers. To reinforce these science concepts, the students went to various web sites that helped them put their knowledge into action. Everyone really enjoyed all the activities, so I told them that I would put the sites on the blog for them to do at home.

Enjoy!


Science Chapter 2 Sites - All About Animals

Drag, drop and sort animals into the 5 animal types. There are 5 games to do in different habitats. AWESOME game!

(Under Animal Classification Section)

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/gamesforkids.htm

Cool! Seek and find animals in different habitats. They are not as obvious as you would think!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/seekandfind/indexseekandfind.htm

Carnivore, herbivore, Omnivore sort

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animaldietgame.htm

Science Chapter 3 Sites - How Plants and Animals Live Together

Fill out the food chain and sort the animals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/food_chains/play_popup.shtml

Picture example of a food chain vs. a food web

http://www.sciencebob.com/questions/q-food_chain_web2.php

Chain Reaction – build food chains and test them out

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/play_chainreaction.cfm

Pond, arctic, and meadow food chains – simple and easy

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

Food chain drag and drop that gets harder and harder. Shows the food chain in action and adds decomposers.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm

Producer and consumer game

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm

Our Class Book

Here are some of the pictures we took today. During this short week, we are going to work on making a book about our school and class. When it is finished, we are going to send it, with our letters, to Robert Munsch.

We all hope that he will like it, and write us back! It would also be cool if he included some of the pictures on his website!

Germs! Germs! Germs!

How have you been feeling? Here at NPE, a lot of kids (and some teachers) have not been feeling so great lately. Because of this, we took some time this morning to thoroughly disinfect our classroom with Clorox wipes and Lysol. We also read the book Germs! Germs! Germs! together and discussed how to keep germs away. After wards, we made "NOT WANTED" posters and "germs" that we hung in the hallway to remind kids what they need to do to keep from getting sick from germs.

I hope everyone gets to feeling better, and is able to return to class soon! :)

Larry Batson's Wildlife Program

This morning we had the Larry Batson Wildlife Program. His programs are always really good and very informative. He said that this is his 31st year coming to NPE! Wow! That's a LONG time! He also told us some VERY sad news. His baboon, named Dolly, that he always brings, passed away around Christmas time last year. She was like a child to Mr. Batson and his wife. There is good news though, they decided to adopt another Baboon, and they were able to do so at the first of the year. The new baboon's name is Elizabeth, and she is 9 months old now. We were SO lucky, because he brought the baby baboon with them today! She was SO cute! She was also VERY wild and CRAZY! She jumped ALL OVER THE PLACE! We all enjoyed the program!

Here are some pictures from this morning.

Mr. Batson has a new website that he told us about, it is http://www.larrytheanimalguy.com. Check it out! :)

Robert Munsch Read Aloud

To go along with our Robert Munsch author study, we have been working on reading various Munsch books with lots of expression and fluency. This week, we put our reading into practice by reading to 3 kindergarten classes. Below are pictures of the kids reading to the kindergartners, and them with the books they read aloud.

Fire Safety Program

This morning we were lucky enough to not only have the Sugar Creek Firefighters come and talk to us about fire safety, but we also were able to walk in and look inside a real fire truck!