Don't forget our big 4th grade musical 8:30 Friday with reception and student author share event immediately following back in our classroom. Anyone needing to make a meeting, flight etc will have his/her child go first.
The second Little Miss/Mr. Men book for each child following our process (but done at home) is expected to be ready on Wednesday.
Research continues on invasive species currently plaguing Florida. Our state has the greatest invasive species problem in the world. The results of this research will be used to launch our science unit on scientific classification. Scientists don't want to control or interfere with the wrong species. So it is important to know the proper scientific binomial name.
Students with parent supervision are expected to become authorities on one invasive species. They also need to know where the species comes from and, if possible, find out how it got to Florida. Everyone has practiced looking up two different species. One of these or a third will be assigned to each.
The students will arrive home with the name of their species and a research worksheet. In some cases, students will be assigned the same species they used in our practice research sessions. I hope that families can supervise access to online images and video of these species as well as sources other than Wikipedia (our starting point.)
Invasive species research support from home continues into next week.
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