March’s home project and spelling words

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Dear Parents,

The theme for this month’s home project will be zoology.  I have provided a description of each level’s assigned project. These will be due the week of March 26.

Level 1s–  Each student will need to research their category of animal. I have provided the list of animals that each student has been assigned.  The following are things I want them to cover in their presentation:

  1. Describe the general characteristics of the type of animal (e.g. Feathers, warm blooded, lays eggs, etc.).
  2. Describe the habitat it lives in. (e.g. water, land, both, etc.)
  3. Provide an example of a specific animal in the category they have chosen (e.g. salmon, seagull, frog, llama, etc.) Provide interesting facts about their specific animal.

Fish—Savannah B., Aaron,

Amphibian—Savannah C., Camdyn

Reptile—Luca, Asher,

Bird—Evie, Tony, Crystal

Mammal—Axel G. , Alora, Lily

Level 2s–  Each student will research and present a specific body system.  I have provided the list of topics that each student has been assigned to research.  The following are things I want them to cover in their presentation:

  1. Explain what this system does for your body? (What is its job?)
  2. Explain how the system works.
  3. List the main organs found in the body system.
  4. Provide any other interesting facts about the body system.

Muscular–Eli

Skeletal–AJ

Nervous– Pranet

Digestive– Daxton

Respiratory–Gage

Circulatory—Evan

Lymphathic– Xienna

Level 3s–  Each student will need to research the category of invertebrate animal that they have been assigned. The following are things I want them to cover in their presentation:

  1. How it looks
  2. Where it lives
  3. How it moves
  4. How and what it eats
  5. Other interesting facts

Poriferans (sponges)–Alejandro

Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydras)–Christine

Platyhelminthes (flatworms)–Lucas

Nematodes (roundworms)—Axel J

Annelids (earthworms)–Halee

Mollusca (snails, clams)–Addison

Echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins),–Christian

Arthropods (insects)–Brody

Arthropods (spiders)–Denver

 

Spelling words:

List A: drink, pink, link, mink, sink, wink

List B: cork, corn, fork, horn, tractor, orbit, thorn, forest

List C:leader, alert, verb, adverb, herd, nerve, person, liberty, germ, herself, serve, verse, perfect, clerk, thermometer

List D:  share, dare, care, scare, aware, beware, spare, area, compare, blare, library, flare, stare, hare, fare

 

 

 

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