Plants

This week we started our big Plant Unit. We started off the week talking about living vs. non-living things, and then moved into the parts of plants, and the function that each part has.

We did a celery experiment to show how stems carry water and nutrients around the plant. We colored the water with food coloring to see how it traveled around in the celery stalk. The kids were amazed to see color going up the celery and even in the leaves at the top!

We even used plants in our Math by making some math flowers using our teen numbers!

We got to dig in to some of our favorite fruits to see how many seeds that and what they looked like. We found out that oranges don't always have seeds in them! :( But we still had fun looking!

Special Guest

Yesterday, we were very lucky to have a special guest in our classroom. A storyteller from Norway, Stina Fagertun!! She is a family friend of one of our students, and asked if she could come into our classroom, and of couse I said Yes! She tells stories at the Norsk Hostfest in the fall, and has won many awards back in her home country. She travels all around sharing her craft! She explained to the students where she came from and what her hometown was like. She then shared with us one of her very own fairytales! After, she explained her clothing and some other tradition pieces she had brought with her. The kids loved it!! It was such a great way to introduce some new culture into the classroom!

A little umbrella fun

This week we talked about the Letter U, so of course we had to have a little fun with umbrellas!! We got to decorate our own umbrellas using watercolors. But the best part is the pictures that we added to them!! How cute did they turn out!

We also did some writing about about we would keep under our umbrellas if it was raining out. They did an awesome job!

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