We have been busy the past couple weeks with all sorts of learning. Check out some of our favorite activities:
We have been busy being botanists and studying plants in detail. We explored various items and tried to determine what linked them together.
After further discussion and learning we revisited these items and tried separating them into two groups: items made from plants and items not made from plants. This made us wonder about how plants can be manipulated. Many of us thought that only items of green color are made from plants!
This led to further investigation of various materials made from plants and how they are produced. We watched videos and read books to get us thinking.
Through this exploration one of us made the claim "Everything is made from plants". We are now exploring this idea and finding support for as well as questioning the claim. We will inquire further into this claim to eventual prove or disprove it.
We have also been botanists as we have planted our own small garden, and we have even planted personal bean plants.
Our garden is growing like crazy! Stay tuned for pictures.
We also have been developing as mathematicians. We are studying measurement and are doing all sorts of measuring activities to help us hone our skills.
We were very excited to have a guest speaker visit our class! Mr. Galaty is a professional mathematician and we were very interested in hearing him talk about seeing math in the world. He encouraged us to develop our math skills by practicing and noticing math around us.
Finally, we had the opportunity to 'adopt' one of the SAISA boys volleyball teams, and were very excited to cheer on the TAISM Eagles. Our cheering even helped them win a close game!
See even more pictures of the tournament by clicking here.
Hello KGM! leo brought us out to see your bed of germinating seeds. Last night he cut open an apple so he could get out the seeds and bring them into school today. He continues to water our plants on the balcony and this morning he discovered a pepper flower that is now turning into a green pepper! You are all becoming quite the botanists. Keep up the growing!
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing to us! Can you help Leo take a picture of the pepper plant that is growing? It sounds very interesting that it's growing from a flower! We want to see it!
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