Seasonal Planting - Winter time problem

In winter time; seeds and plants can find it way too cold to grow, and sometimes the frosts can kill them!

So.... Room 14 decided that we needed to find a solution for this! We came up with the idea of a green house! We wondered how we would do this!?

We watched some youtube clips that showed us lots of different ways to do this, and Shannon (who has been giving us lots of cool information!) showed us a way to make a green house too! 

Check out the mini greenhouses we have made! We look forward to watching the seeds grow and seeing if our creations work! 

A Green house made out of bamboo sticks and plastic cover.

Making a Green House. 

Making the mini green houses by planting seeds in egg cartons and then putting them in ziplock bags.

Checking out our mini Green Houses

Our Seasonal Planting display! Come in and check it out! 

Mini Green House's - bags - bottles - plastic containers and jars!

Check it out! It has condensation already!

Seasonal Planting

 Room 14 is becoming experts on seasonal planting!

So far we have:

1. Brainstormed what we already know about seasons and planting.

2. Come up with what we needed to know, and where to find information about seasons and plants to help us understand this. 

3. Conducted experiments to help us know the best environment for a seed and plants to grow.

4. Learned some more about the temperature and weather in each season. 

5. We then came up with some problems seeds and plants might encounter in each season. 

This is what we came up with for summer and what we thought we could do about it. See the next post about the winter problem, and how we thought we could solve it!  

 Tyrahn and Rayyed made this home made sprinkler out of a plastic bottle and then Shannon (Phoebe's mum) hooked it up to a hose for us and we tested it out! It worked!

The Great Plant Escape

http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/index.cfm

Creative Story Starters!

Stuck for ideas? Don't know what to write about? Check out this cool website!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

Olympic Links

Here is the link to the Rio Olympic page! 

Rio Olympics

This one will help you with your Mascot reading tasks

Rio Mascots

Mascots from other years

Helping Room 6/7 learn Mandarin

BFG Sketch Pictures

Nathan's Mum told us about a competition! We could draw a picture of the BFG! So.... after we unpacked and studied the story of the BFG we had a go at sketching him. Look what we have done!