May
Plants
Essential question: How do plants grow?
Nakeya:  First a seed gets planted.
Marvin:  Then the seed germinates and grows roots.
Dominique:  The seedling stage comes next.
Patrick:  The stem grows and leaves grow on the stem.
Emmalee:  A flower grows at the top.
Toni:  The next stage is pollination.
Macy:  That is when a flower opens and seeds are in the center.
Logan:  The flower dies and then seeds spread.
Cameron:  Seeds spread by animal fur, wind, people, and water.
Essential question:  What do plants need to grow?
Erik:  Plants need water, dirt, air, and light.
John:  Plants need space to grow and nutrients.
Leeann:  Plants need sugar called glucose.
Essential question:  How do we use plants?
Cameron:  Plants give us medicine.
Samantha:  We get food from plants.
Marissa:  Our clothes come from plants
Danielle:  We use trees to give us shelter.
Ciara:  Plants give us oxygen.
Cory:  We give plants carbon dioxide.
Kelcie:  Plants use our carbon dioxide and change it into oxygen for us.  That is called photosynthesis.
 
 
Websites to help you learn about your plants... The Great Plant Escape Photosynthesis Movie Poisonous Plants
Core Democratic Value this month is Popular Sovereignty.
 
Author of the month: 
 William Joyce

In math this month we will be learning about graphing.
1.  Completing a math project.
2.  Organizing data in math using a chart and graph.
3.  Explaining information represented on bar, line, tally, and pictographs.
4.  Proability and statistics.

Math Tutoring Programs
Chances Are
Guess My Number
Heads I Win
Heads-Up Probability
 

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