Minto-Brown Fieldtrip is official!

We are on our way to Minto-Brown Park on Tuesday, May 24th!  This is a great fieldtrip that culminates our Pond unit of study for Science.  It will be great to see all the information that we have been learning.
We have learned that there are 3 layers in the pond...the muddy bottom, the open water, and the surface.  The muddy bottom has lots of plants that have roots in it and the open water is where lots of our pond animals live their lives.  On the surface are lots of plants AND animals that we see all the time.

For our CCD (cognitive content dictionary-our place for organizing new scientific words) we have have added habitat, living and non-living, and organism.  We know that a habitat is where plants and animals live and grow and we now know that an organism is anything that is living.
We currently in the midst of learning about different pond animals that make the pond their home or habitat.  Soon we will be working on an animal report where we will be choosing our favorite animal and writing all about it.
So make sure you have your permission slip turned in because this is a great fieldtrip!!  I am still missing quite a few and hopefully we will see the rest come in this week!! :)
Also, it was great to see some smiling faces in the crowd today for Myers annual Volunteer Dessert!  All the first grade classes have been practicing for our special performance and it went off without a hitch.  Thank you to ALL of our Myers Volunteers!  You guys are amazing! THANKS!
Happy Mothers' Day and I hope everyone enjoyed our Mothers' Day gifts.  We were very excited to give them to our special moms :)

Mrs. Berry