KDH Science ALIVE: Watching our Garden Grow

Encouraging our natural observation abilities, our class enjoy learning about animals in their natural habitat while having loads of fun.

Daily we observe our playground garden, discovering new insects and seeing how the plants change and grow.

By drawing what we see in our science notebook, we know exactly how the garden and plants are changing from week to week.

We Take measurements of our plants height and the size of the leaves so we know how much the plants grow each week.

KDH is getting really good at measuring things.

On Wednesday it rained so much, and we recorded 4 inches of water in one day!

KDH's Outdoor Classroom

The beautiful sunny day yesterday beckoned us outside. Not wanting to waste a precious moment of outdoor time, we all agreed to have our snack outdoors. Our plan was to eat on the stage on the bottom level. But once outside, we saw that the stage was still too wet to sit on. We walked up two levels and enjoyed our snack there. 

As we would say in the vernacular, "What mazel!" We were lucky to have gone up there.

Reyn found a lady bug. 

Lewis discovered an inch worm. What fun to watch how it arches its body to move.

And then, the pecans! Lots of pecans. We've seen pecans since the beginning of the school year. They were still in the outer husks and mostly black and rotten.

Yesterday the children found pecans just in the shell. They cracked them open and tasted them. What a pleasant surprise. 

They continued collecting them. Morah Sara went inside on got us a basket. 

We took the pecans and went down to the (now dry) stage. We lined up the pecans in rows of ten. We had 17 sets of pecans with ten in each set. The children counted by ten, obviously up to 170. 

What a fine day! We took the pecans inside and are thinking about what we can do with them.

Suggestions anyone?

Morah Ruth   Morah Sara