Ecosystems

This week we started a brand new unit in Science, Ecosystems!  We discovered that ecosystems are all of the living things (plants, animals and organisms) in a given area, and how they interact with each other.  To start off our unit we broke ecosystems down into their components (soil, plants, water, fish, worms, and grass) and each group of students had one component.  From their, students did a KWL chart where they listed what they Know, Want to Know, and Learned after doing a little research.  We'll put this knowledge to good use next week when we make our very own ecosystems!!!

Fun with Geography

The past week we had a lot of fun with Geography!  We played a matching game to help us remember vocabulary and a puzzle game to help us learn the states surrounding Missouri.  The goals for our unit were to identify and locate regions, located and label Missouri and its border states on a map and locate several key locations within Missouri.  These games helped to make learning these goals fun.  They are now available for students to play as a choice in the afternoons after work is finished.