Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall

We adopted a class tree and watched it change through the seasons.  Here are winter and spring.  We named our tree Woody.

Garden City Greenhouses

Last Monday we took a field trip to a local business - Garden City Greenhouses.  This was one of the best experiences of our school year.  Here are some pictures of our adventure learning about plants from Cathy (the owner).  She let us each try a fresh, ripe tomato, and apparently you can eat pansies!  I didn't try one myself, but the kids who did said they were very sweet.

If you're in Magrath and want a neat place to go, you don't want to miss these greenhouses.

Look What Grew In Our Garden!

We did it!  We finished growing our plants.  Look how great they look - now we will take them home to plant in our own gardens.

Woolford Park

At the end of every school year, grade one heads to Woolford Park for a day of science and art centers, and to celebrate a successful year.  Thank you to everyone involved!

What Does a Plant Need to Grow?

Because we are learning about plants in science, we decided to do a science experiment.  We learned that plants need dirt, water, sun and air to grow healthy and green.  So we decided to try growing seeds without some of these important things.  

We grew without dirt:  In a cup all alone, in grass, in shale, in sand, in water and in rocks (all in the picture above).  Can you guess what might happen?

Here are the seeds that will get everything they need (above).

Would you believe it?  The seeds sprouted that we planted in shale and in rock, but not in the other cups.

We had a grade four student who is conducting a similar experiment with bean seeds come and show us his results.  How interesting!

Swimming in a Sea of New Knowledge

In our painting unit for art we experimented with different watercolor techniques.  For our sea turtle project, we used salt to help the wet colors bleed into each other, allowing a flowing water effect, like that created by swimming turtles.  Check out some of our Wow! work:

Pitch-In

This past month our school got involved in the Pitch-in project.  We worked together to clean our community of litter.  Here we are walking around our assigned grids, doing our part to pitch-in!