Last Week's Learning Log April 29-May 3, 2019

Oki,

Another action packed week of neurons firing and connections being made. 

As you know we went on our field trip to Nose Hill on Monday.  Here are some examples of student work for locating themselves on the land (mapping) during our walk.  When you return to a place more than once you develop a knowledge of the land by using landmarks.  This process also helps visualization of details and clues. 

Our space tomatoes are really starting to take off here are some photos of the two trays.  Can you see some differences?  Which tray do you think are the space tomatoes?

Green Tray = L seeds

 Black tray = M seeds 

We don't know which seeds were in space.  

Each day the helpers record their observations and questions.  This helps to review vocabulary and understand the stages of plant growth and requirements.  

Ask your child what the job of chloroplasts are.  Where do we find chlorophyll?  

Ashton brought in his lichen specimen, which sparked connections back to our plant studies and medicine and  into the oldest plants on the planet (ferns, horse tail and conifers).  Here is a video that we watched about lichen.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkw_VF5zDT0

We've been using the vocabulary word symbiosis which is when two organisms depend on each other for survival.  We previously talked about how the bison and the blackfoot has a symbiotic relationship.  

Did you know that May is traditionally the: 

?  https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/one-nature-challenge/

 So ... we have been doing some outside learning with our grade 2 buddies each day for 30 minutes in the afternoons.  We are trying to go between 1and 1:30 each day.  Here are some photos of measuring using non-standard measurement tools.  We are hoping to get to the Creek  to do some plant investigation during the middle of May, 2019. 

So far we have:  collected garbage on the school grounds, measured, and done a sensory walk to write sensory poetry.