Thursday

We are ending the week by learning about the classification system. Did you know that there only used to be two kingdoms, Plants and Animals? Now there are five, or six depending on the author. We have Animals, Plants, Monera (which sometimes is divided into two kingdoms, eubactera and archaebacteria) Protist and Fungus.

Today we learned the differences between the plant and animal kingdom. The students looked at different pictures and the captions from the book and, as a team, decided what characteristics the animals and plants had. Then we made patterns from monocot and dicot leaves so the students could tell the difference. We also drew pictures of a moss plant.

Homework: each student is to bring a leaf for Monday (if they forget till they arrive at school, the school grounds have many plants with leaves :))