Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Greenhouses

We sent these home last week, but for 12 days we had a classroom full of greenhouses! In order to be able to see the whole growing process, we started bean seeds in our greenhouses and observed them every few days. Some of them grew to be quite large!

Wooden creations

My husband, Bill, is a cabinet maker and has lots of wood scraps hanging around his shop. Thanks to the Stine family, the Greene family and Bill, we now have a new station in our classroom complete with wood glue! The children helped me move furniture around, carry in boxes of wood and then got to work!
The glue dried really quickly, allowing kids to paint their creations! We also had a meeting to discuss discoveries kids made about working with wood glue (Miles said don't use too much, Cora said don't use too little) and about building a base for your structure so it wouldn't stick to the table! I can't wait to see where the kids take this!
 

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Seeds!

Last week Jeannie came to plant seeds with us. We planted herbs for Claire and Yuko to use in the kitchen. We also planted some flowers. We have been learning about what seeds need to grow, the seed life cycle and identifying plant parts.














The seeds are being carefully cared for in our classroom and we just noticed the first sprouts today!

Sugar House

We had a lovely field trip to the Sugar House in April, thought it was slightly disappointing because they weren't boiling when we visited. We loved the sugar on snow taste test and the short hike we took through the woods. Thank you to everyone who helped us!