Yay for all the good reports (shellymos, irisheyes, stpauligirl)!

Mom2MrQ: We have a mixture of science and social studies in all grades here. (Some units they get social studies instruction; some they get science instruction) In 1st, DS8 did fossils, rocks, etc., continents and bean plant growing for part of the science curriculum. Don't know if DS6 will have the same curriculum, as our county's been changing it all around the past two years. I'm skeptical about the changes only b/c DS6 didn't get to watch tadpoles grow into frogs last year, which his older brother had done in K. Our school also has a weekly science special (only a couple of schools here offer that). DS6's teacher mentioned that the reading/writing/science curriculums will be more tied together this year. They might do something on bugs, for instance, and read, write and do hands-on as the unit.