Reflect on the 7-8 times we worked with our KinderPals this year.

1. What is the KinderPals Program?
2. In what ways do you think the program benefits the kindergartners? Try to explain several with support.
3. Why is the KinderPals program beneficial to 5th graders? Believe it or not, you should be getting something out of the program as well!
4. What challenges did you experience in KinderPals this year?
5. What improvements could be made to the program for next year?
6. Do you think the kindergartners enjoyed the stories from Peekapak? Why do you think that? Do you have any evidence to support your answer?

Answers:

1. The KinderPals program is a program that helps younger students learn about different essential virtues but, instead of teachers teaching the students older students teach them. For example I have a KinderPal that is in kindergarten and I am in fifth grade.
2. I think it helps them learn about the different virtues that are needed in life. For example we are now doing honesty as the virtues for this time.

​Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
4. Why are plants called Producers?
5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
7. What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers:

1. Plants get there energy from the sun. They transform this into glucose.
2. They get this from photosynthesis.
3. They get this from nutrients in the ground and water.
4. They are called this because they produce food.
5. Every animal would go extinct because herbivores mostly get eaten by carnivores and herbivores would die out.
6. They would all die.
7. One of the living things are pollinators for example bees.
8. Some of the non-living components are water and soil.
9. They take stuff of the flower for example pollinators.
10. Glucose is transported.

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Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
2. Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
3. What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
4. Using this food chain, "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," How do organisms in this food chain get the matter they need for body repair and growth?
5. Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
6. What do you think happens to the matter that is NOT used by the organisms in a food chain or food web? Is it wasted or does something else happen?