Week 6

This past week in 2nd Grade, we went green...green thumb that is!  Plants was the topic for both reading and science.  We learned about parts of a plant and what each part does, plus we did a couple of experiments.  We put celery in cups filled with colored water and waited and watched how the stem of the celery acts like a straw.  After a few days we could see the water in the cup going down and the leaves changing to the color of the water!

 

For reading, we read Eric Carle's "The Tiny Seed".  We found out some other interesting facts about seeds and plants.

 

Then we made our own "greenhouses".  We cut the greenhouse out of construction paper and used a Ziploc bag as the "window".  After decorating them, we dipped a cotton ball in water and put grass seed on the wet cotton ball.  We put our seeds in the Ziploc bag and taped the bag into the inside of the greenhouse.  Then we hung our greenhouses in the window so the sun will shine on our seeds and after a while, we should be able to see them sprout!

 (Now we just need some sun after the last few days of clouds and rain!)

 

One other project we worked on this week was making bats to hang in our room to help decorate it for the month of October.  We took black construction paper and traced our hands on it with a white crayon.  We cut the hands out to use as the wings of our bats.  Then we cut out a body for our bats.  Some children chose circles for the body, others chose squares or hearts.  We also cut out two triangles for the ears.  Then we glued our bats together and added wiggle eyes and drew on a face.

"Spooktacular"!