Week+2

Welcome to Week 2!

Day 1: More Life Cycles

Today we will:
 * =====participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners and follow agreed upon rules, while building on each other's talk. =====
 * =====be actively involved in exploring the natural world posing questions and seeking answers through observation and time to talk about our observations and compare ours with others. =====
 * =====use oral language, drawings, and models to communicate results and explanations of our findings. =====
 * summarize the life cycle: birth, developing into adult, reproducing, aging, and death
 * =====Remember that organisms differ from and are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. =====

Day 2: Research, Research, Research
 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 25 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * Science notebooks
 * Smartboard
 * Smartnotebook file || * continue to answer "What is a life cycle?" through a circle map
 * read book as a group
 * complete your book's life cycle activity
 * tape each other using flip cameras giving a summary of your group's life cycle ||
 * 2nd 20 min || * science notebooks
 * Smartboard
 * sticky notes
 * animal sheets || * as a whole group discuss how offspring are like their parents
 * smartnotebook activity
 * matching activity
 * teacher goes over tomorrow's wrap up activity ||

Tomorrow we will:
 * =====participate in a shared research and writing project. =====
 * =====participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners and follow agreed upon rules, while building on each other's talk. =====
 * use oral language, drawings, and models to communicate results and explanations of our findings.
 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 15 min || * Research folders with research templates || * research animal according to part of book assigned in group ||
 * 2nd 15 min || * Library books on life cycles
 * Research folders with research templates || * research animal according to part of book assigned in group ||
 * 3rd 15 min || * laptops
 * science notebooks
 * Research folders with research templates || * complete venn diagram online
 * begin working on group book sections ||