3rd Grade-Week 6 Solar and Lunar Eclipses

6th Lab Session Week

This week we will be learning about how solar and lunar eclipses happen. We will also be reviewing how the four season occur on Earth.

When is the next solar and lunar eclipse in Los Angeles? Click here. 

Concept: The Sun and the Moon-Eclipses

Investigation: How do solar and lunar eclipses happen?

Homework: Crossword Puzzle study guide for the Vocabulary Quiz

·      Vocabulary

1.    Eclipse

2.    Orbit

3.    Lunar Eclipse

4.    Solar Eclipse

·      Brain Pop- “How Eclipses Happen”

lunar eclipse

solar eclipse

Partial solar eclipse from Venice, CA on May 20, 2012.

Partial solar eclipse from Beijing, China on July 22, 2009.

4d. Students know that Earth is one of several planets that orbit the Sun and that the Moon orbits Earth.

5d. Students will predict the outcome of a simple investigation and compare the result with the prediction.

Kindergarten-Week 6 Seasons of the Year

6th Lab Week

Concept: Seasons of the Year

Objective: Students will learn the four seasons of the year and their characteristics.

Vocabulary:
seasons
Fall
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer

Questions of the Week: 
What are the four seasons? 
What are the characteristics of each season? 

BrainPopJr.com Video of the Week: Seasons

Can you name the season in each picture?

What color are the leaves in Fall/Autumn?

Where do we need to go to see snow near Los Angeles?

Brentwood Science Magnet 2014-2015 Calendar

August 12: First Day of Instruction

August 19: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

August 26: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

August 29: No School (Admissions Day)

September 1: No School (Labor Day)

September 2: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal 

September 3: FBSME Meeting

September 9: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

September 16: ELAC Meeting/Master Plan Options Meeting/Back to School Night

September 18: SLC Meeting

September 23: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

September 25: Unassigned Day-no school

September 30: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

October 1: FBSME Meeting

October 7: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

October 8: Family Science & Math Night

October 14: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

October 15: Picture Day

October 16: GATE Night

October 21: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

October 28: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

October 31: Halloween Parade

November 4: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

November 5: FBSME Meeting

November 7: End of 1^st Reporting Period

November 10-17: 1^st Reporting Period Parent Conference Week-2:09 dismissal

November 11: Veterans Day-no school

November 18: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

November 24-28: Thanksgiving Break-no school

December 2: Make Up Picture Day/ Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

December 3: FBSME Meeting

December 9: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

December 16: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

December 20: Winter Orchestra Concert

December 22-January 9: Winter Break-no school

January 13: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

January 14: FBSME Meeting

January 19: MLK Holiday-no school

January 20: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

January 27: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

February 3: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

February 4: FBSME Meeting

February 10: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

February 12: GATE Night

February 16: Presidents’ Day-no school

February 17: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

February 24: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

February 27:  End of 2^nd Reporting Period

March 2-6: 2^nd Reporting Period Parent Conference Week-2:09 dismissal

March 4: FBSME Meeting

March 10: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

March 17: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

March 24: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

March 30-April 6: Spring Break-no school

April 7: Banked Tuesday-1:44 dismissal

April 8: FBSME Meeting

April 14: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

April 21: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

April 28: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

May 1: 5^th Grade Panorama Picture Day

May 5: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

May 6: FBSME Meeting

May 7: Open House

May 12: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

May 14: GATE Night

May 19: Shortened Day-2:09 dismissal

May 20: Volunteer Tea

May 22: Spring Orchestra Concert

May 25: Memorial Day-no school

June 3: Minimum Day-1:09 dismissal/FBSME Meeting

June 4: Last Day of Instruction/Minimum Day-1:09 dismissal

3rd Grade-Week 5 What Causes Earth's Seasons?

5th Lab Session Week

This students will have a quiz on the Sun, Earth, Moon and Stars. 

This week students will learn why the Earth has seasons, and it's all because of how the Earth rotates!

The Earth's tilt during winter in the Northern Hemisphere

Concept: Seasons

Investigation: How does the Earth's rotation effect the Earth’s season?

·      Vocabulary

1.    Axis

2.    Rotation

3.    Revolution

4.  Tilt

·      Brain Pop- “Seasons”

Kindergarten-Week 5 Weather

5th Lab Week

Concept: Weather

Objective: Students will learn different types of weather like sunny, partly cloudy and overcast.

Vocabulary:

weather
weather symbols
sunny
partly cloudy
overcast
cloud
fog

Question of the Week: What is the weather like today?

Sunny

Partly Cloudy

Overcast

Rain

Snow

Fog

Weather Symbols

Back to School Night - September 16th, 2014

Back to School Night

September 16, 2014

5:00 Pizza Sale

5:00-5:30 Master Plan Program Options Videos in the Auditorium

5:30-5:45 Principal Presentation in the Auditorium

6:00-6:30 Grades K-3 Room Presentations

6:35-7:05 Grades 4/5 Room Presentations

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Kindergarten-Week 4 Landforms on Earth

4th Lab Week

Concept: The Earth has many different landforms on it.

Objective: Students will learn about the different landforms on Earth.

Vocabulary:

landforms
valley
desert
mountains
plains
island
peninsula
canyon
beach

Question of the Week:

•What landforms are on Earth?

BrainPopJr.com video of the week: Landforms

Earth Sciences

3. Earth is composed of land, air, and water. As a basis for understanding this concept:

a. Students know characteristics of mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, and local landforms.

Kindergarten-Week 3 The Earth

3rd Lab Week

Concept: The Earth is a ball of rock and rocks are used to make many things.

Objective: Students will learn that the Earth is made of rock, rocks are used to make many things, and rocks can be sorted by size, color and texture.

Vocabulary:

Earth
rock
buildings
roads
sidewalks
sort
size
color
texture

Question of the Week:

•What is the Earth made of?
•How are rocks used?

BrainPopJr.com video of the week: Rocks

Earth Science

3. Earth is composed of land, air, and water. As a basis for understanding this concept:

d. Students know how to identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life and understand that many resources can be conserved.

Investigation and Experimentation

3. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:

a. Observe common objects by using the five senses.

b. Describe the properties of common objects.

d. Compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute (e.g., color, shape, texture, size, weight).

Earth

3rd Grade-Week 4 Constellations

4th Lab Session Week

We will learn about constellations and why we can only see certain constellations during the year.

What can you see in tonight's sky? Click here to find out!

Concept: Constellations

Class Reading: Read pgs 201-205 & 213-216.

Investigation: How were constellations created?

Homework: Study for Sun, Earth, Moon, and Stars Quiz next week.

•      What are constellations? How did the constellations get their names?

•      Vocabulary

1.    Stars

2.    Myths

3.    Constellations

•     Myth of Orion and Scorpius

•     Brain Pop- “Constellations”

Summer constellations

4a. Students know the patterns of stars stay the same, although they appear to move across the sky nightly, and different stars can be seen in different seasons.

3rd Grade-Week 3 The Earth's Moon

3rd Lab Session Week
This week we will learn about the phases of the Moon and why the Moon looks different during the 4 week lunar cycle. 

Here's a link to a great website to review the lunar phases.

Here's a link of the daily moon phase.

NASA launched LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, pronounced like "laddie") which is a robot on its way to orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. Video and pictures of the launch can be seen at nasa.gov/ladee.

Concept: The Moon

Class Reading: Read pgs 185-199.

Investigation: What are the phases of the Moon?

·      Phases of the Moon-waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent, new moon

·      Brain Pop- “Moon Phases”

·      Phases of the moon worksheets-draw the different types of moons, label the moons

·      Phases of the Moon home guide

What kind of moon is in the sky?

The phases of the Moon

Diagram of why we see different phases of the Moon

LADEE

4b. Students know the way in which the Moon’s appearance changes during the four-week lunar cycle.