Plants & More Plants

Wow.....I haven't been on here in a while but what do I see when I get ready to post.......I have 36 followers!!!1  Woohooo!!!!  Hoping I can get to 100 soon:)  Well it's been back at it since being off for 10 days for Spring break.  But only 34 more days till SUMMER BREAK.  But who is counting...right!!!! 

We have been off & running with learning about Plants.  This week we learned about Non-Fiction Text Features.  We read Pebble Books that were about the parts of the plant.  Then we made a plant poster, where we labeled the parts of the plant & wrote about each part & gave it a label.  Here are some pics of the books & our finished posters.

Plant Posters

Since we had learned about the parts of the plants.....why not have a plant tasting party.  We ate broccoli for flowers, celery for the stem, spinach leaves used in salad for leaves, & carrots for roots.  Then everyone got Ranch dressing b/c I have heard everything tastes better with Ranch??  Not sure b/c I'm not a fan!!!! 

What we ate

Enjoying parts of a plant

Yummy!!!!

 

 

 

We stamped the life cycle of a plant & labeled it.  Then we put a bean in a wet paper towel & hung it in our classroom.  We have started to write in Our Bean Seed Journal about the growth of our seed.  At the end of the blog you can get your label for your journal!!!!

Life Cycle of a Plant

Seed Journal (click here for this label)

Our hanging garden

We made flower pictures with Markers & are patiently waiting for it to sprinkle rain, so we can stand outside & see what happens to our pictures.  Stayed tuned for that!!!!

Stayed tuned for our end product......we will probably never get rain until the day after the last day of school with my luck!!! haha

My students kept asking when we were doing Sci-Fri again b/c it's been sooo crazy before Spring Break.  Our Sci-Fri experiment was disecting a flower.  Students loved getting a flower and digging in the soil to get the roots & cutting it apart to get the stem, flower & leaves.

Flowers we disceted.

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We also fit in on Friday our MVP Super Scientist.  He balanced a jar on paper.....pretty awesome!!!!  My students have really enjoyed being the Super Scientist when they are student of the week (MVP).

We also read a book on Earth Day this week & watch a video, watched the Steely Steel Pan Band.....my fav assembly..... makes me want to be on the beach with an umbrella drink & soakn' up the sun.  Lastly this week we mad helicopters to finish up our Science Unit on Balance & Motion.

This was also a following directions activity......some could not:(

Getting ready to "fly"

One going down....that's why it's blurry!

Thanks for stopping by.  Please stop by again.....many fun things going on in 1st grade the next couple week.  We will be learning all about Rocks & digging for some on our field trip....maybe I can find an emerald & call it a year. ha   We will be learning contractions, ou & ow words & much....much more!!!!

Off to a baseball game & pictures!!!!  Have a great weekend & do something fun:)