Worms and dead shrimp

There was no school on Monday. This week was a short week, with our mid chapter quiz.
On Tuesday we made our biodomes. I thought it was really fun making it. I watched shrimp and snails wiggle around in the water. I was very excited to pick up a worm! It was very slimy. This is the first worm I have ever picked up! I liked planting the grass seeds and I hope they grow. I am sad the shrimp keep dying.
On Wednesday we reviewed for our quiz on plants; both vascular and non-vascular and their life cycle. We played really fun games including sink or swim. We also checked up on our beans and biodomes. My bean was growing okay, but not as well compared to others. It is really cool watching the progress of the socks on the wall to see if any socks had picked up spores from other spore producing plants outside from the previous week. I have seen growth over the week on some of the socks. I learned that it takes a lot of time and patience for plants to grow!
On Thursday we had our quiz. I need to improve on studying!!! I studied chapters 1-5 instead of Chapters 1-3! I thought it was a test instead of a quiz! Next time I will check with Mrs. Giacomelli before I study the wrong thing.
On Friday we dissected a bean and a corn kernel. It was my first time dissecting anything so it was a great learning experience. I had a fun week and the experiments were really fun as always.
I was so excited to pick up a worm I wanted to learn more about their life cycle. A really cool link is attached


http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-life-cycle.html

Dissected beans 

Dissecting a bean 

Growing sock plant 

Biodome

Midterm week

As usual this was a great week considering it was mid-term week! On Monday we reviewed for our science midterm by playing lots of fun games. My favorite, but hardest game was sink or swim. I thought it was a fun way to review because it felt more like a game than as though we were actually studying. We also checked up on our plants that we had planted the week before.
I noticed a big difference between last week and this week's bean growth. I noticed that the bean was cracked and looked really big. I thought it was cool growing a bean out of a cd case. It seems like the perfect way to observe and grow a bean at home because it was so much fun.
Tuesday we had our midterm. I thought it was both hard and easy. It was easy because I had studied really hard and knew the answers to the questions. It was hard because the information that I had missed at the beginning was more difficult and I had to work even harder on those questions.
On Wednesday we observed our beans once again. Sadly, my bean grew mold. I think I may have over watered it. If I tried this at home I could improve by adding less water each day. We also finished our leaf collection. I learned about the different scientific names of plants and I learned the different parts of the flower and leaves when I did my leaf ID card. I thought this was a very interesting way to examine and observe the leaves around us.
On Thursday I replanted my bean so it would not grow mold. I am hoping to see the results on Tuesday! It was fun this week in science even though it was midterm week.
I read the attached article on the 10 top study methods to reduce midterm anxiety. I liked the tips. I'm glad I survived my first set of midterms!!!

http://homework.answers.com/school-tests/reducing-midterm-anxiety-with-the-top-study-methods

Below are pictures from last week.