Busy Scientists

Angela Bries presents "Insect Inquiry"

A big thank you to Angela Bries, Howard County Naturalist, who came to our classroom on Tuesday, Sept. 23rd to present a program on insects.  Students enjoyed learning about types of insects, insect body parts, and other factual information.  They were even challenged at the end of the program to identify whether different "critters" were a insect or not an insect.  Be sure to ask your third grader about what they learned.

We are continuing our study of animal and plant populations in our classroom.  We recently introduced an ant farm to the room and are enjoying observing those ants.  Students are also practicing puppet plays about animals and plants that they will present to some of the younger classrooms.  It is a great way to combine reading fluency instruction with science.  They are also excited about making their paper bag puppets to use with the puppet plays.  We have some very creative students!  Topics we will be discussing next our adaptations of living things, predator and prey relationships, and food chains.  Finally we are patiently waiting the arrival of some other "creatures" next week that will find a home in the plants we have been growing.  Hint- We will get to see food chains in action.