Friday in the Garden 05.17.2013

Did you know it was our last day in the garden (Kate)? First we started our observations like usual (Kara & Lily). One thing we noticed was our tree that we voted on is growing leaves (Sierra). Another new observation was the pumpkins we buried now have new pumpkins (Bhavya). We also saw a tree that didn't have any leaves and it looked like it was dying. The most exciting change we saw was a GIANT zucchini (Abby)! It came from the seeds we planted (Herath)! Wow! It was so big (Price)! 

After that we made a nature web by answering questions about nature and holding a part of string if we got the question right (Rex). The nature web stands for interdependence (Kayla). 

After that our teacher got to harvest the humongous zucchini (Vilina). 

Ms. Bonnie cut it up and we got to eat a piece with yummy pesto (Max). It tasted AMAZING (Courtney)!

 Good bye, Garden! We'll see you next year (Caroline)! 

What Talented Foxes!!!

Stupendous! Astounding! Wonderful! My little foxes were amazing at the talent show tonight! All my fantastic and supportive parents must be so proud. I knew our class was a treasure of talent, but wow, they really blew me away! Here's a little peek at the Gold adventure...

The kiddos have been practicing for almost 2 months and most of our practices were in the classroom which was much smaller than the actual stage. Most of the props were made by the kids too. We had a prop mishap yesterday which was completely reversed by the Unsinkable Heather Ache. And again today, we had another prop mishap in which my little fox it affected made a fabulous quick adjustment.

Once. That's how many times we rehearsed with everyone present, and that was yesterday and our one and only time to rehearse on the stage.

Do you see why I am soooo proud of these little guys?!?!

Enjoy the video. I have, about 10 times already!!!

Friday in the Garden 4.26.2013

WOW (Lily)! We just studied cardinal directions yesterday and BOOM, right when we went outside we saw a compass rose on the path in the herb wheel (Will)! 

On the path the directions marked were northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast (Bhavya). An Eagle Scout carved the compass and it was so cool seeing it on the path and there are so many other things we saw (Price, Kayla). The Eagle Scout also carved us an ABC path in the native garden (Herath). Some of us followed the path in alphabetical order (Sierra). 

We saw Monarch caterpillars and we hope to see them when they turn into butterflies (Abby). 

Pumpkins are sprouting from the ground (Max). They came from seeds from an old pumpkin we buried last year (Kara). The weather was nice but it was so foggy, we thought our eyes were blurry (Nathan). 

Today our assignment was to find different plant parts and rename them according to what their job is for the plant. We renamed roots to Sucker-Ground-Grabbers (Bridget). 

Stems were renamed to Cylinder Suckers (Vilina). Pretty Pollen Producers was the new name for flowers (Elliot) and finally leaves were renamed to Sun Grabbers. 

It was fun looking closely at the plant parts in our groups because we could compare them. For example some of the leaves were bumpy, some were soft and smooth, and some were poky and pointy (Kara, Vilina). 

We learned that every plant part has a job that makes the plant live just like us!  

I have been carefully tending to our beautiful butterflies during this gorgeous spring break. My children and the neighborhood children have thoroughly enjoyed the presence of these mysterious and fascinating little creatures. The weather being so gorgeous and the lifespan of a butterfly being so short, I just had to let them go. I know you understand. I made a video for you so that you may feel a part of the experience. ENJOY!

PS You may want to silence the narration! :o)

Friday in the Garden 03.08.2013

It was really cold and kind of misty, but when we got to the garden we didn’t care about the weather.

First we listened to Ms. Bonnie tell us we would be planting summer seeds. She told us we would be removing the winter plants because the winter plants won’t be good in the summer.

Next we picked up shovels and pulled out the winter plants. After that we put coffee grounds and compost in the soil and mixed it with our shovels like mixing cake batter.

Then we got into small groups. Some of us planted plants that somebody had already started for us. Another group of us planted seeds. You have to make a mound of dirt and poke 3 holes about an inch long. After we poked the holes we put in our squash seeds and covered them with dirt.

Last, we put up our shovels and Ms. Bonnie showed us where pumpkin seeds had started growing.

We’re excited to see our plants grow. Even though the weather was gloomy we still had fun at garden.  

Friday in the Garden 11.30.12

Today was a beautiful day to be outside. We made wreaths from items in nature and tried sunflower seeds. My adorable Foxes each wrote their own blogs. Here is today's experience in their own words. Enjoy.

The first thing we did was...Make a wreath we loved it. I hope we go again.

First we go the garden. Next we did observation and got flower seeds. Then we switched places. Last we decorated a wreath and a teacher hung it on the fence. 

First we went to the garden and we split the class. On my first one we explored the garden.  Next we had another station. We made a wreath. I love garden days. Bye bye.

(back reads: The garden rocks!)

At the garden. Today we went to the garden. We met adults Mrs. Joanne and Mrs. Patty. Next, we split up to make wreaths. I got to eat...more sunflower seeds. In the garden is Awesome!!

(back reads: our wreath was awesome!!!!!!)

 

First we went to a table that was filled with nature. Next Ms. Jo Anna said we were going to make a wreath. Then we went over to another part of the garden and saw a dead sunflower and Ms. Jo Anna said they put out their seeds and you could eat them. It was a wonderful day! 

First we went to observe the garden. We saw cauliflower. Next we went to the other side and finished the wreath that the other [part of the] class started. We put the wreath on the fence. I had fun today!

Foxes at the garden. First we went to the garden. We got split up in two. I went with the 2nd group. Next we made a wreath. Then we had the most delicious seed ever in my life!

We went to the garden. It was cold outside a little bit. We made a wreath too. Next we switched groups. Next we observed the garden.

Today we made a Christmas decoration. We made it awesome! We looked eated our plants. We ate seeds.

Firs we explored the garden. Next we split into two groups and they have 8 and 9. I want to go to the garden again. Last we lined up. I want to go to the garden again.

Today we went to the garden. The first thing we did is split up. One of the groups did the wreath. The other group looked at stuff.