Week ending 5/13/16

We've had a great week!  The weather has been nice, the class has been working so well together today and we have finished up some units, such as math for place value…and we started some new ones, such as poetry for reading and writing.
We had an in school creative arts presentation today from the Museum of Science on life cycles.

Here's some things the class wanted to share with you that we learned today at our in school presentation:

• The animal life cycles are not always the same as humans.
• Pine trees, the Sequoia,  start out as seedlings and the grow to pine cones with seeds in it.  
• The Sequoia trees need forest fires for the sap to melt so the seed pods can open up.
• The Sequoia trees could be as large as three blue whales stacked on top of each other, 350 ft. high.
• The life cycle of a reptile is an egg, hatchling, juvenile, and then adult.
• When mammals are born, you can tell it's a bird but maybe not which type of bird it is.  
• Frogs have a big change in their life cycle, metamorphosis.
• The life cycle of a butterfly is an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and then butterfly.  
• The whole group practiced growing as trees too.  
• We saw a reptile, the Chuckwalla.
• We saw the largest living thing…a Sequoia…well, we actually saw a seedling of a Sequoia.
• We also saw Caatinga Horned frog.

Here's some pictures from today's presentation as well:

 Museum of Science Life Cycles presentation

 Chuckwalla lizard

Sequoia seedling

 Practicing growing as a tree.

 Sequoia full size

 Egg stage

 Caterpillar

Chrysalis

 Butterfly

Caatinga Horned Frog