Please Be Gentle with the Game Supplies. It Is on Loan from the Library

Can-Do!

Our back computers broke this week so we are unable to watch a video. However, if you’d like, you can find them on Watchknow at home. Just search for “pollination” and “photosynthesis” and you will find several videos. I especially like the ones on pollination because it shows close-ups of the birds and bees as they walk on the pollen.

BUT – as another plan, you are going to play the Can-Do game! This game is actually about animals and food chains. I know that you learned a lot about this last year and you will be studying it again in just a few weeks. This will get you ready for it.

Please be gentle with the game supplies. It is on loan from the library.

Promethean Board

You will be visiting a very cool website that has five different videos. The videos do not have any sound so do not worry about turning on the speakers. BUT – there are large paragraphs that go with each video. I expect SOMEONE in your team to read each paragraph OUTLOUD before watching the video and I expect everyone else to be LISTENING.

In the video, you will learn how gravity and sunlight can affect the growth of a plant. Watch and listen carefully – this information will show up on your test.

You can also watch this video again at home by going to Watchknow and searching for the video titled

Plants-in-Motion.

(you may want to write that down and remember it for later)

Plant Life Cycle

You learned on Monday that every flower eventually turns into a FRUIT! Sometimes it is a fruit you can eat and sometimes it is a fruit you cannot eat. Scientists call ANYTHING that protects a seed or seeds a “FRUIT” – so even an acorn is a fruit and a green bell pepper is a fruit… because they protect seeds on the inside.

Take a sheet out from each bag. You will need to cut out the small pictures and glue them correctly into the right order. Place them in the order you THINK they belong, check the answer key, and THEN glue them down. Otherwise, you might glue something in the wrong spot. You may keep the answer key out for help. After you have both cycles glues, then you may color them.

IMPORTANT – You must put this worksheet in the BACK of page #9 in your binder when you finish! I will be looking for it during our binder check! Put it where it belongs as SOON as you finish!!!

Pollination

You will be acting out the process of pollination in this art center. It is important to remember that pollen can be transferred to the sticky stigma in MANY different ways. The wind may blow it onto the stigma. Your dog may hitthe plant with his tail as he walks by and jiggles the pollen onto the stigma. A bird, bee, or butterfly may visit the plant and walk on the pollen. Then it may carry the pollen to the sticky stigma of the SAME flower OR it may carry the pollen to another flower’s sticky stigma. The little grain of pollen travels down a small tube and into the ovary… where it becomes a seed.

Follow these directions step by step:

(1)Quickly take out page #7 of your binder and flip it to the back side.

(2)Use a piece of chalk and color above the anthers where it says “pollen” with chalk. This will act like the “pollen” on top of the anther.

(3)Put a SMALL piece of DOUBLE SIDED tape on top of the sticky stigma. You will NOT need to roll this tape. It is sticky on both sides.

(4)Select a finger puppet.

(5)Use your fingers (the “feet” of your puppet) to “walk” on the pollen (chalk) and then “walk” on the sticky stigma (tape.) You should notice a lot of the “pollen” stick to the stigma. Keep tapping on the stigma with your “pollen” until it is not sticky anymore.

(6)Take off your finger puppet.

(7)Now tape a SMALL amount of seeds into the ovary in your picture. Use the REGULAR tape to do this.

(8)You have just “pollinated” your flower!

(9)Make SURE to put this back in your binder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you finish, take turns going to the back table and observing the moldy bread and fungus under the microscope. Make sure to read the important information about FUNGI beside the microscope.

Reading Comprehension

What is the reason for the flower? To make new seeds and reproduce! How does that happen? Through pollination!

You will be reading an A.R. book titled “The Reason for a Flower.” This is a THIRD GRADE READING LEVEL! There is NO reason why you shouldn’t be able to read and understand the book and successfully take an A.R. test on it! Please make sure you are paying attention and listening carefully even if you are not the one reading.

It is a simple book with lots of bright pictures. You may even have time to read it twice before taking a test on it!

Crossword Puzzle

And Flashcards

You have lots of different vocabulary words this week and if you are not carefully studying them, you will get confused. Remember that POLLINATION and PHOTOSYNTHESIS are not the same thing. One process makes FOOD and the other process makes SEEDS. One thing happens in the FLOWER while the other thing happens in the LEAF.

To help review some of your words, you need to complete the crossword puzzle. Some of the words are from your flashcards and others are not. BUT – you should be able to use your common sense, background knowledge, and wonderful inferencing skills to help you solve the puzzle.

When you are finished, you can practice with the flashcards provided. You do NOT have to wait for everyone to finish the puzzle. As soon as two of you are finished, you may start working on your flashcards.

Check out the moldy bread! The bread with strawberry milk has a bluish/green mold on it. The bread with the orange juice has a yellow/orange mold on it. This is a reminder that mold is NOT A PLANT!!!! Molds are part of the FUNGI kingdom. They are single-celled and multi-celled organisms that do NOT make their own food. They are “feeding” off of the bread. Since they do not make their own food, they are not a producer (plant.)