Seeing Our Plan come to Life

Today was the day... we were able to bring our garden plans to life!  My dad took all the ideas together and built our gardens on sight.  Students took turns watching and asking questions as they were being assembled.  After they were done, we picked the best place for them to be so the sun would hit them.  Next week planting!  Be sure to check back often to watch our garden grow.

More from the Cool Aid Corner...

All about Plant Parts

Cash reporting on the parts of a plant and their jobs...

https://youtu.be/ney9WJF5pG8

Audrey reporting on plant parts and their jobs...

https://youtu.be/9U9XLtCenOI

SCIENCE is blooming

We are so excited to get started on creating our first grade gardens.  Thank you to Mrs. Whilden for getting us 5 pallets.  Today we started planning what to do next.

I gave the students 2 problems, and asked them to create a diagram that would show us how to use the pallets to make a garden.

1. We had to keep the ground from flooding.
2. We had to provide a way to keep the squirrels from eating the seeds.

A few ideas the kids have were...

Samuel said "put food around the gardens to act as a distraction for the squirrels"

Joshua said "use mice traps and put a caution sign up so that kindergartners don't step on them"

Audrey said "raise the pallets on a stand to keep the water moving"

A few though we needed to spray with the Cayenne Pepper Spray.

Here are a few of examples of the plans that students came up with.  In addition, we met as a class and came up with the best of all plans.  We are excited to have my dad come build what we have drawn.  Be sure to check back for more details as we watch our gardens grow.

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Book reviews and reports on living and non-living... you don't want to miss these special reports!  In case you can't open from the blog, I am linking the you tube address.  

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Learning gets DIRTy!

Today we learned made learning get DIRTy, We learned all about dirt, and the things that make up dirt!  We explored 3 types of dirt to see the sediment that makes up each kind of dirt.   It was great to have hands on learning, even if it got a little messy!

Operation RID the Squirrels!

As you have heard, we have a squirrel problem.  They are very brave and chewing through 5 backpacks to gt to our snacks.  After doing a little research, we found an organic way to get rid of the squirrels.  We are now conducting a little experiment.  We kept data last Friday to see how many squirrels we saw on the porch.  Today we mixed our solution of cayenne pepper and dish soap.  We sprayed the area of the porch in front of our backpacks, and then waited.  Check out our data sheet.

Good news, no squirrels near our backpacks (and a few people forgot to bring in their snack).  Miss Andrews caught one down by her backpack red handed (but it was outside of the sprayed area).  Check back for more information as we look at the data and draw a conclusion to our information!  

The Cool Aid Corner - Up and Running

Here are a few reports for the day!

Some behind the scene shots...