Science is quickly becoming one of our favorite parts of our week! My lil’ rockstars LOVED getting hands on with science in our first unit of study. (Who can blame them!)
This week we began studying about plants. We started the unit out by talking a little bit about what a lawn is. That led us into a conversation about what plants need in order to grow.
The kiddos then had a chance to get ‘down and dirty’. LITERALLY!
Each student received a small cup that had two holes at the bottom. After filling our container with soil, we planted both rye grass and alfalfa grass in our lil’ containers.
We then, of course, were sure to water our seeds because we know that plants have to have water to grow!
Our plants are now sitting in our ‘Arlington Elementary Greenhouse’ (a green light in our Spanish room) where they are growing. Each day we have been checking in the progress of our grass to see what is happening.
We have also done some reading in our science book about what plants need to live.
Later in the week we had the opportunity to grow another type of plant. The firsties are also growing wheat. We rolled a piece of extra absorbent paper towel into a straw and now the straw is housing a wheat seed! All of our seeds are growing in the straws where we will be tracking their growth and change and comparing them to our grasses that we planted.
And, oh my word friends, since I took the pictures on Friday of the plants - you should see how tall our grasses are! They aren't kidding when they say they grow like a weed! Ha! Sadly, my battery died on my camera, so I wasn't able to snap a picture of our plants today. I will be sure to get one tomorrow though and post asap!
We will keep you up to date on the success of our lil' plants!
'Till next time!
Empathy – Adaptability – Communication – Arranger – Developer
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