More plants ... Sort of!

This past week in Science we labeled the different parts of plant in our Science Journals. The kids made flap books, placed different parts of the plant under each flap, then labeled those parts.

We also took mixed up parts of plants and put them in the correct order, then labeled those!

He drew the plant's needs after he ordered and labeld!

Thursday, we dissected flowers and looked at them underneath our microscope!

First we looked at our plant and figured out what it was.

Next, we looked in the soil for the roots and separated the roots and soil from the rest of the plant.

He found a lot of roots!

Then, we separated the leaves from the stem.

We looked at one of the leaves underneath the microscope and saw the cells in the leaf! After we looked at the leaf we looked at the stem underneath the microscope. We noticed they were both green.

 Next, we separated the petals on the flower and looked at one of the petals underneath the microscope. The flower petals cells were purple, white and yellow.

After we looked at the petal we looked at the pistil of the flower (which was VERY hard to get underneath the microscope!)

 

Math and Science

In math this week we ...

Practiced counting by 10's starting on different numbers between 1 and 30 and writing them down

Practiced writing and building different numbers

Had races to see who could count and write the correct number first

Sorted coins into jars by amounts using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

In Science, we reviewed what plants need to survive. At the end of the week, we planted grass seeds in different types of soil to see which ones would grow and which ones would not grow. We also made a terrarium with a Sprite bottle.

 

Our terrarium has rocks on the bottom, then soil, then seeds and a little more soil. We hope it work!

 We planted our seeds in potting soil, loam soil, humus soil, sandy soil and clay soil.

 

Reading, Writing and Social Studies

Some of our reading and writing stations this week were ...

Using plastic cups to make different words by changing the vowels.

Making the word "bag"

Writing stories at writing station

Playing on ABC Mouse on the iPads

Plastic spoon word families

Using plastic spoons to make words in different word families.

During our sight word song we use computer keyboards to practice spelling the words like we are typing on the computer! Every body gets one and types their sight word when it comes time to spell it.

 

In social studies this week we talked about different jobs in Muleshoe and the technology they use and acted out the different jobs.