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Ms. Lane, Science, Kinder

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Science Week of March 10th

At Westgate, we believe we have a duty to contribute to our community. To support this mission, each grade level has a service learning project, where they learn ways to create meaningful change in and out of Westgate. Kindergarten’s service learning project is all about pollinators! Throughout this year, kindergarteners have been exploring the importance of pollinators and what we can do to support them. This week, we are going to showcase all that we’ve learned with an interactive poster project. With these posters, student’s will be able to demonstrate how pollinators use the parts of a plant to survive and help plants grow.

Science Week of February 24th

This week, we are continuing our unit about how animals and humans change their environment. We will be discussing topics like resources and explaining the difference between man made and natural resources.

Science Week of February 17th

This week, we are starting a new 2 week unit in Science. We will be exploring how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. To do this, we will be taking a deep dive into different animals (and then humans) to see how they change their specific environment.

Science Week of January 27th

This week in science, we will be exploring how the Sun heats up the Earth and how this affects animal habitats. To support our understanding, we will be doing experiments to test how the Sun heats things up and learning about how the Sun affects three different animal habitats.

Science Week of December 2nd

We are learning all about what animals do in the winter in our classroom! We will be exploring what animals hibernate, migrate, or adapt in the winter and what they do to survive. 


What can you do at home to support your kindergarteners? Learn about animals in the winter at home. Go outside or look outside from a window. Listen and look for animals! What animals do you see and hear? What do you observe them doing? 


Vocabulary word list: hibernate, migrate, adapt, den, and burrow.

Science Week of November 4th

This week we are learning about health and the body. Your students will learn about the importance of hygiene, taking care of themselves, and anatomy. For example, your students will discover why we brush our teeth, wash our hands, and how those things help our body stay healthy. 

Science Week of October 28th

This week we will discuss the big question “can objects move by themselves?” To support their exploration, students will create cars out of papers, move each other in laundry baskets, and do a number of actions to explore the foundation of physics.

Science Week of October 14th

This week we will be learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Your students will learn how pumpkins start from a seed and grow into a pumpkin. On Friday, we will get the opportunity to dissect pumpkin as a class. We will review what living things need to live and grow. Plants need air, light, space, soil, and water to live and grow. 


Pumpkin Life-Cycle

Seed → Sprout → Vine → Flower → Green Pumpkin → Pumpkin 

Science Week of September 23rd

This week we will get to learn about another pollinator, bats! Remind your students that pollinators are useful because we need them to help plants grow. There are many types of pollinators and they all do their part to help plants flourish.

Science Week of September 16th

This week we will take a closer look at what living things need to survive. Through hands-on activities, students will explore how animals and plants get their needs: water, food, air, and shelter. We are so excited to have some fun with our learning!

Science Week of September 9th

This week, we will be taking a break and beginning another unit in Science. In preparation for our field trip to Miller Farms (Field Trip Date still TBD), we will be doing a unit all about the difference between living things and non-living things. During this unit, your student will learn all about what is living vs. non-living. At home you can ask your student if something is living and non-living and see if they can do it!

Social Studies Week of September 2nd

It is our second week of Social Studies, we will continue learning about our community helpers and what it means to be a part of a community. Encourage your student to identify community helpers around your neighborhoods and discuss what they do and why it is important. 


BONUS: Thank a local community helper. Create a card or just say thank you to the community helpers. 

Social Studies Week of August 26th

It is our first week of social studies! Our kinders will learn all about community helpers! Who they are and why they are so important to our community. If you are a community helper, we would love for you to join our class sometime this week or next week. Please email me if you are interested. You must have a background check in order to join our class, which you can find here. 

Science Week of August 19th

This week in Science, we will be talking all about severe weather. We will be building on their knowledge of the weather and the seasons, and taking it one step further with the idea of severe weather and shelter. They will be learning about Tornadoes, Blizzards, and earthquakes, as well as talking about why shelter is so important! They will be conducting experiments throughout the week, including things like tornadoes in a bottle, as well as creating their own shelter out of materials in the classroom!

Science Week of August 12th

This week in Science, we will be discussing weather and seasons. We will track the weather as a class and learn how weather is made up of a combination of sunlight, wind, snow, rain, and temperature from specific regions. Encourage your kindergartener to engage in discussion about what they notice about the weather and what kind clothing they should wear each morning. To support their learning, we will create weather dolls and your student will get to dress them up based on the weather/season.