Plants, Rocks and Shells!

2nd grade is exploring different ways to observe and record information.  They have been traveling to the fictional island of Gouli Gouli and discovering plants, rocks and shells that no one has ever seen before!  Like Charles Darwin during his 5 year voyage on the HMS Beagle, they need to make detailed observations so they can recall what the newly discovered objects look like when they return home!

We used our sense of smell to help describe the plants.  Some of us like the smell, others didn't!

Observing Parts of a Tree!

Kindergarten has started their unit on Trees!  We brain stormed all the things we know about trees and discovered we know a lot about these amazing plants! We know trees...grow slowly, can be cut down when they are sick, ants and worms can live on them, can grow in your yard, can be made into toilet paper and can actually turn into rock (petrified wood)!

I found an acorn!

It's bumpy.

We found ants crawling on some of the leaves!

It looks like there is honey on this!

One tree part is smooth, one is bumpy.

Leaves, seeds, branches, tree sections!

What is this?

Making a leaf rubbing.

This has a brown middle.

Look what I found inside of the acorn!  It's yellow
and kind of squishy.

Taking the time to look closely.

The birch tree bark is so smooth!

We chose one part of the tree to look at closely and draw.

A tree sculpture.

The Mealworms Have Arrived!

1st grade has been discovering the world of mealworms! They are observing what mealworms look like, what they like to eat, what they like to do and what is the best way to hold these fast moving insects!

 They move so fast!

It can hold onto my finger!

My mealworm is hiding under the paper!

The mealworm has legs in the front!

My mealworm is eating.

The mealworm has lines on it.

It tickles!

My mealworm likes the black paper the best.

I see the antenna! 

Most of the mealworms like the black paper best,
but some of them like the white paper. I wonder why?

Mine's playing dead.

We have started to record our observations in our Mealworm Journals.  We are drawing with details and describing thing we notice about the mealworm.

It's not slimy like worms.

It likes to crawl on me!

Look at PS58's Garden Grow!

Thank you to all the families that helped take care of our school garden this summer!  It was a hot summer and our garden needed a lot of watering!

Our tomatoes and peppers are still growing!  Our herbs look fabulous and green!  We even have some onions!

We have some plum tomatoes growing!

Our nasturtiums are on their second round of growth!

Still growing!

Lots of cherry tomatoes!

A green pepper!

We have lots of mint growing.

Our lavender is thriving!

The squirrels don't seem to be interested in the onions.

Basil for our cafeteria! 

Parsley and more parsley!