Our Science Adventures! 🔬

We'll be using a program called Mystery Science that aligns with the state's learning goals. The lessons are designed to be engaging and hands-on. Your child will be doing science, not just reading about it! We'll explore big questions through videos and activities that help them think like a scientist.

Life Science: How Living Things Change and Grow 🌿

We will be exploring how living things are related and how they adapt to their environments. Your child will learn to:

• Understand Life Cycles: See how different plants and animals go through the stages of life, from birth to death, and why they look so different.

• Investigate Traits: Discover that living things get their traits from their parents and that these traits can vary. We'll also figure out which traits are inherited and which ones come from their environment (like getting a tan from the sun).

• Explore Fossils: Act like paleontologists and use fossils to learn about plants and animals that lived a long time ago.

• Learn About Survival: Understand why some traits might help an animal survive better in its environment and how changes to a habitat can affect the animals living there.

• See the Importance of Reproduction: Understand why animals need to have babies for their population to continue.

Earth & Space Science: Our Planet and Its Weather 🌍

We'll be looking at the world around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above. Your child will learn to:

• Become a Meteorologist: Use charts and graphs of local weather to predict what the weather might be like during a certain season.

• Explore Different Climates: Compare the typical weather in our area to weather in other parts of the world.

• Design for Disaster: Think like an engineer and come up with ideas to reduce damage from extreme weather like floods or strong winds.

Physical Science: The Science of Motion 🔬

This unit is all about how things move and the forces that make them go. Your child will learn to:

• Investigate Forces: Understand how pushes and pulls, including friction and magnetism, affect how an object moves.

• Play with Magnets: Conduct experiments to see how magnets push and pull on each other.

• Solve Problems with Magnets: Use their new knowledge of magnets to design something that solves a simple problem.

Technology & Engineering: Problem-Solving Skills 🛠️

Throughout the year, your child will also build key engineering skills by learning to:

• Research Solutions: Look up different ideas to solve a problem, just like a real inventor.

• Create a Design: Draw or build a model of their design idea.