Friday, November 4, 2011
October 13th Outdoor Art
On October 13th, the 3-5 grade class rode our bikes to Kimber’s house, Brian Waverly’s barn, and the Sunnyside Market. We were looking for ideas for beautifying the back of the school. In between the spots we took soil samples and we collected native plant seeds for our native plant garden behind the school. We will be working with Steve Schaller from Glacier Bay National Park to design and plant a garden behind the school.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Behind the School October 6th, 2011
On October 6, 2011, we went on a field behind the school to collect soil. It was a cold wet day. We were all having so much fun being out in the woods! Kimber and Lori came with us. We were collecting seeds and soil. We dug holes to get the soil. The holes were almost one foot deep. The soil was sandy and clayish. Both groups at least dug one hole. We are collecting seeds for a native plant garden for The First Bloom Project. Do You know what kind of soil we have other than clay and sand? What soil does a Sitka spruce prefer to live in?
September 29th Behind The School
On September 29th, the 3-5 grade class went behind the school for a field trip. We completed The Circle Of Life, which is where you put a piece of string around some plants and tally up all of the plants you see.The different groups tallied up all of the different kinds of plants we saw. The reason we did it was so that we can learn more about plants, since it is one of our topics for our year long project. We learned that the most popular plant behind the school is strawberry plants.
One of the groups found metal tags on most of the willows behind the school. After the field trip we wondered why there were tags on the willows. So at the Open House at the school, Ms. Jessie asked Tania Lewis who we could contact and she said Kevin White. He is a scientist for the Department of Fish and Game. A few days later we got an email from him saying that the tags were used to mark individual willow plants. They used the tags to document how moose browsing affects their growth patterns and production.
Please give comments and questions, because we love to answer them.
One of the groups found metal tags on most of the willows behind the school. After the field trip we wondered why there were tags on the willows. So at the Open House at the school, Ms. Jessie asked Tania Lewis who we could contact and she said Kevin White. He is a scientist for the Department of Fish and Game. A few days later we got an email from him saying that the tags were used to mark individual willow plants. They used the tags to document how moose browsing affects their growth patterns and production.
Please give comments and questions, because we love to answer them.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
2011-12 Year-Long Study
The 3rd-5th grade class is updating our blog with our new year-long study. It was a long process, so we are going to just show you the steps.
Step 1: Brainstormed 79 topics
Step 2: Narrowed it down, and created wordles to show what was most popular
Step 3: Narrowed it down to 12 topics
Step 4: Narrowed it down to 5 topics
Step 5: Voted for our topics and chose two
Based on our voting the two topics are rocks/minerals and plants!
Everyone is exited about what we are going to study. We hope that everyone will comment on our blog so we can see what you think. We will be updating our blog everytime we go on a field trip to tell you how we are doing.
Step 1: Brainstormed 79 topics
Step 2: Narrowed it down, and created wordles to show what was most popular
Step 3: Narrowed it down to 12 topics
Step 4: Narrowed it down to 5 topics
Step 5: Voted for our topics and chose two
Based on our voting the two topics are rocks/minerals and plants!
Everyone is exited about what we are going to study. We hope that everyone will comment on our blog so we can see what you think. We will be updating our blog everytime we go on a field trip to tell you how we are doing.
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