Aiden watched the video "Chasing Rainbows" and brainstormed a list of questions he could investigate to find out how rainbows form. He completed the Lesson 1 Launch "Traveling Waves" where he brainstormed how light and sound waves travel. He completed Encounter the Phenomenon "Amazing Architecture" by brainstorming how light and sound compare between tall skyscrapers.
Libby completed her interactive calendar, changing it from December to January using a daily pattern, noting the number of days in the month of January, the weather, new vocabulary words for the winter months, the daily hundreds chart, the daily coin deposit, and telling time. She read and discussed her new vocabulary words and their definitions.
Colson read about common ancestors, variations, competition and natural selection. He analyzed the diagram of how natural selection occurred in the Galapagos tortoises. He used the PhET Interactive Simulation Natural Selection and watched the animation Natural Selection to investigate natural selection in a rabbit and giraffe population.
Aiden completed the Mechanical Wave Interactions lesson review, where he wrote descriptions and drew models of reflections, absorption, transmission and diffraction.
Interactive Calendar Daily Sentence Puzzle Vocabulary Making a Popsicle
Lesson Outline
Teddy completed his interactive calendar. He read and discussed his vocabulary words. He put together his daily sentence puzzles. He read and discussed a Scholastic News Magazine explaining how a young boy accidentally discovered how to make popsicles. He learned how to turn a liquid (cranberry juice) into a popsicle (a solid).
