Fish, Four Winds, and Fun with Plants!

We have new classroom pets! 

Here are Big Fish and Little Fish.   They are here to help us learn more about our Science unit: Living & Non-living.

As soon as they came into the room, the students wanted to write about them!

  

They seem to like their new office space!

Four Winds

This week, Mr. Carr and Mr. Larsen from the 4 Winds program came in to help us learn about animal and plant defenses.  We learned that defenses are the ways in which plants or animals protect themselves  to keep safe.

After a great puppet show, the students shared what they had learned:

• Porcupines defend themselves with quills.
• Turtles have a hard shell as a defense.
• Some animals are bright colors and poisonous.
• Worms can defend themselves because they are slippery and slimy - that helps them to escape!
• Plants like raspberries and roses have sharp thorns as a defense!

Fun with Plants!

Check out our bean seeds/plants now!!!

Today we finished our own 3 dimensional flower diagrams too.

We also planted our own seeds!  Thank you Mr. Young for our planting pots and for filling them with soil.