Hello Everyone,
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather that seems to have skipped spring and now it’s summer.
Thank you all who were able to help with the field trip. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately we didn’t get to spend a lot of time at the planetarium but the children’s museum was great, too.
We have our last field trip this Wednesday, May 2. I am sorry, when I planned these field trips at the beginning of the year I didn’t realize they were a week apart. Our field trip this week is to the dinosaur park. We are going with Ms. Kirsten’s class. We will be meeting at the Botanical Gardens close to the dinosaur park at 9 a.m. The address for the gardens is 1750 Monroe Blvd, Ogden. We will be spending some time at the garden and on a nature walk. We will then go to the dinosaur park at 10 a.m. where we will participate in a paleontology discussion and an interactive activity. We will then spend the rest of the day exploring the park. Lunch will be eaten at the park whenever chaperones and teachers decide so students will need a sack lunch. Please also make sure they have a water bottle. It is also a good idea to make sure your child has sunscreen. The morning winds from the canyon can also be cool so a jacket is a good idea as well. Students will need to be picked up from the dinosaur park at 2 p.m.
Our class will be doing the DIBELS reading test on Thursday. The reading specialists will be taking our kids a few at a time to do the reading. Please make sure your child gets a good breakfast and a good night’s sleep so they can do their very best on the testing.
Our final home project is due in a couple weeks. Your child can bring in the project any time, but please before the week of the 21st. This home project will be based on a cultural subject.
Level 3s: Pick a dinosaur. Please include the meaning of the name, who named it, when it lived, where it has been discovered, if it’s an herbivore or carnivore, how big it was, how much it weighed, and anything else interesting they discover about it.
Level 2s: Pick a planet. Please include why the planet was named what it is, who discovered it/named it, which order from the sun it is, how hot and how cold it gets, how long it takes to rotate on it’s access, how long it takes to go around the sun, if it has any moons and how many, and any other interesting facts they learn.
Level 1s: Pick a bird. What does the bird look like, what sound does it make, how big is it, how many eggs it lays, how long it takes them to hatch, where they live, if they migrate, what they eat, and any other interesting things they learn.
We have already had one home project presented on a bird and it was wonderful. I am so excited to see the others.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Jalee