Spiders, spiders, and more spiders

This week we are learning all about spiders. Now, Ms. Race absolutely does not like spiders so we want to learn as much as we can just to see her cringe. Here are a few questions we want answered....

1. How many eggs can they lay at one time?
2. How do jumping spiders jump so high?
3. How many spiders come out of one egg?
4. What do they catch in their webs?
5. What do spiders eat?
6. How do they shoot webs?
7. How do they eat their prey?
8. How big is a tarantula's egg?
9. Why do people not like spiders?
10. Why are they afraid of humans?

11. What are natural predators of spiders?

Please share cool websites, videos, or pictures of spiders with us!

 

Jellyfish

This week we are diving back into the ocean blue to learn all about jellyfish. We know a little bit about them such as, they can sting you, they can kill fish, and their sting can be very dangerous for humans! Although we know these things...we want to know more!

1. How do jellyfish eat?
2. Can jellyfish live on land and water?
3. How many babies do jellyfish have?
4. Do they also scratch you when they sting?
5. What do jellyfish eat?
6. Can a jellyfish see? Do they have eyes?
7. Are jellyfish different colors?

We hope you have some cool pictures, videos, or websites that will help us discover these answers. 

Ms. Race's class 

Sea Turtles

This week we are learning all about sea turtles. We get the chance to dive into the ocean and find out what they are all about. Now, we know a little about sea turtles like...they live on land and water, sea gulls enjoy them sometimes for breakfast, they can lay lots of eggs, and they can eat fish sometimes. Although we know quite a bit, we plan to learn a whole lot more this week. We have a few questions we want to know if you can answer! We would love to see pictures, websites, or even cool videos all about sea turtles so please share with us.

Questions: 

1. How long does a sea turtle live?

2. How much does a sea turtle weigh?

3. Exactly how many eggs can they lay?

4. What does a sea turtle eat?

5. Why does the mother sea turtle leave her eggs?

6. Which oceans does the sea turtle live in?

7. What hunts a sea turtle?

Please share cool websites, pictures, comments, or videos! 

Thanks, Ms. Race's class 

A new class...a new beginning!

This school year has already started and we are ready to rock and roll! After talking with my students here are a few things we hope to learn this school year....

1. Sharks
2. Building things- engineering
3. How to get four jobs in one day
4. Hyenas
5. How do things/objects fly?
6.Jellyfish
7.Building a vertical wall and tearing it down
8. How to build ships
9. Building a transformer
10. Barbies
11. Math
12. Penguins
13. Spiders
14.Sea Turtles
15. All the poisonous spiders
16. Rocket launchers
17. Catching sharks
18. Honey Bees
19.Elephants
20. King Cobras   

EXTRA EXTRA READ all about it!!!

This week we are learning all about sequencing of events. So we decided to take a look at the newspaper and how it was made. Now the interesting part is we are looking at the newspapers from the 1700s. WOW times have changed!!!!!

Then:
*The printer made words by pulling individual letters and forming them into words.
*When they printed a page they had to hang it up to dry before passing it out.
* 240 pages printed per hour
*They had to have a TON of patiences!!!

Now we have noticed that newspapers today have color, pictures, and cartoons. We have requested for a guest to come visit us this week. Hopefully we will be able to share more information once our guest teaches us!

Monarch Butterflies at risk..

This week we have been learning all about cause and effect in our literature. However, today Ms. Race received an email with an article stating that Monarch Butterflies are dying out and dying quickly! So we wanted to know what caused this to happen?! Why is this happening, why are the Monarchs disappearing when they are one of the most beautiful butteries found in Arkansas and many other states. Well here is what we discovered....

Cause: Americans have created a new poison that kills out weeds. Well here is the problem, we want the weeds gone from our roadsides, fields, and farms. So we have started using a new poison that eliminates these weeds. Sounds good right?! Wait, here is the problem, when we kill out the weeds we are killing out Milkweed. Milkweed is the number one thing butterflies eat and how they survive! We discovered Monarchs get a special poison from the Milkweed that helps them fight off their predators.

Effect: The Monarch Butterflies are dying out in massive numbers! We need to see what we can do to help them!

Here are a few ideas:

Jocelyn- "Why don't we just replant the milkweed in a different location?"
Libby- "Why don't they make a weed remover that kills all other weeds but leaves the Milkweed?"
Landon- "Why don't they put a barrier around the milkweed?"
Presten- "Why don't they cut a large area of grass and plant milkweed specifically in that area?"
Jakob- "Why don't they find a new location where there are no crops?"

Bees...

This week we are learning all about bees. Bees are actually pretty cool insects. We learned there are 3 types of bees in each hive. 1. Queen Bee- only one queen bee in each colony. 2. Workers- all the female bees 3. Drones- all the male bees.

Here are some cool facts:
1. During the winter, the drones are expelled from the hive and left to survive on their own.
2. The queen bee lays about 2,000 eggs A DAY!!! She can lay up to 2 million eggs in her lifetime. She lives about 4-5 years.
3. About 80,000 bees live in a colony.
4. If the queen bee dies, the workers pick one female bee and feed her a special food called "royal jelly."

We now have a few questions for you...

1. How many species of bees are there?

2. How do you tell two different kinds of bees apart?

3. How do they make their hives?

4. Why do some bees borough?

5. Does the honey keep the hive together?

6. How many colonies of Bumble Bees are left?

7. How big or small is a bee?

8. Are wasp, hornets, yellow jackets, and bees related?