Week of May 23

Last Friday, we went to Speakman's Nursery.  We learned about plants and how they grow in stages. Mr. Speakman showed us how to grow grapevines.  He also should us a heater that warms the plants up to help them grow. He showed us the different foods they are growing.  It was so nice to see all the beautiful flowers in the greenhouses.

On Friday we brought in fruit because it was F for fruit day. Some kids stayed inside to eat the fruit salad.  It was awesome.   We had apples, strawberries,watermelon and so on.

In Science we are learning about plants.  We are doing an experiments with plants.  We are testing to see if  plants need soil, water or light to grow.We are also participating in an experiment called Tomatosphere.  We are testing the rate of germination for two groups of tomato seeds.  One group of plants is "D"  and the other is "M.  One of the seeds groups accompanied a Canadian astronaut on a mission to the Space station.  After we submit our results they will let us know which seeds actually went to outer space.   http://www.tomatosphere.org/