We are growing!

We've had some pretty interesting experiements in this growing classroom!

We took a mystery seed and planted them into a cup under different variables. Here are our varibles: no water, no air, no light and a controlled(gets water, sunlight and lots of love).

Which one do you think will grow faster?

 

 

 

We also planted some more mystery seeds in our own pots. We're testing to see which plant comes out first. The kids got to pick 1 out of 4 mystery seeds. The clues that I gave them to their seed was:

 

A: a plant that grows can be edible when it is fully grown

B: a totally random flower that I don't even know!

C: A pretty white flower

D: a plant that becomes a processed food product

 

Can you guess our plants?

 

 

Children's Museum

On Friday May 24, our class went on an adventurous excursion to the Children's Museum. We learned about what humans need and want to survive. We also got to find things that an owl ate by going through an owl pellet. Here is a sneak preview of our adventure:

What do we need to survive?

 Working together to build a bear's den

Group photo!

Future Spiderman?

Hmm... some really good construction workers

Self-Watering Pot

Self-watering Pot

Materials:

You will need 2 liter bottle, thick string or yarn (either cotton or poly seems to work), a screwdriver, hammer, and a sharp blade to cut the bottle.

 Cut the bottle in half

 Use a screwdriver and a hammer to punch a hole in the center of the bottle cap

Cut a length of yarn/string about 1'-1.5' long, double it over and tie a loop on one end.  

Thread the yarn/string through the hole in the bottle cap so that the knot is on the inside of the cap.  This will act as a wick, drawing water up from the basin below and into the soil.  The plant will take only what it needs, so the soil moisture will be perfectly regulated. 

Put the cap back on the bottle top and nest the top of the bottle in the base. As the plants grow and use up the water, you can just lift off the top to add more to the base instead of pouring it over the soil.  As the soil dries, water will be sucked up through the string into the pot. 

Please label your bottle with your name and bring it to class for May 21. We will plant the seed and put soil in when your bottle when it arrives to school!

Homework for Weekend

Each student will be going home with a Math Booklet 1 to complete on Friday May 10. I will be putting it in their blue homework folders. Please return homework for Monday May 13. Some will have a few pages to complete, some will have 1 page. We will be wrapping up single digit addition and move onto numbers that add up to 20 for the next 2 weeks.

Happy Mother's Day to all mom's, aunts and grandma's!!!

Book Report #2

This weeks book report is slightly different. The kids are fully in charge of knowing what to do and how to do it. They have to pick a hard book for mom and dad to read to them and they need to write down words they are unsure of.

Happy reading!!!

Due Date: May 10

Book Reports

We have officially launched off our book reports! Surprisingly, the kids were so excited to get more homework. Hmmm... they don't sound like kids!

Book reports are sent out every Monday and are to be returned on Friday. It is the students responsibilty to put them in the designated basket in the classroom. Students who bring book reports back to school the very next day completed will get a treat from me. We had 3 hardworkers complete it already! Good job Jack, Trisha and Joelle.

Learning Fair

Thank you to all the families who made it out to see the children's work. We worked hard at making our 3-D community map, podcast, and our class book happen. It was so exciting to see the unveiling this morning with all the work together. For those families who didn't get to make it out, here is a picture of our map:

Here is a link to our read aloud podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/pliu/abc-of-our-community


If you would like an actual digital copy of the read aloud, please email me at grade1@stemileschool.ca