This week we have finished our chapter on animal behavior and reproduction. We will review for the test on Thursday and their test will be on Monday. This weekend, the students should study their vocabulary note cards, their notes, and their review sheet. It would be...

We have begun our study of animal behavior. We are discussing learned behavior and instinctive behaviors. Along with these behaviors, we will be watching the movie Fly Away Home. This is about the learned familial behavior where birds will imprint on their "mother"...

We took our test on Monday and everyone did very well. We will be dissecting the frog this week, so hopefully your child will have a good experience to share with you. Next week we will begin our next chapter which will include animal behaviors and looked at instinct...

We are continuing to study the different systems of organisms. This chapter we have focused on the skeletal or structural system, circulatory/respiratory systems and the excretory system. We have found that they are quite different among the different type of...

We have begun our chapter on support, control, and movement. We will be exploring differences in animals with the different structures that they have and how this allows them to move in many different ways. We will also be looking at circulation and the different ways...

Chapter 11 tests have been graded and will be returned in their Thursday envelopes. Make sure to save old tests for the semester final in May. We will begin chapter 12 next week but before we begin this, we will dissect the worm. This will be the first of three...