Is it living?

We have been busy, busy in science learning about things that are living and not living.

We started out with the basics.

I then incorporated apples into out theme. Just because it's fall and I like apples...and I love any excuse for a class project.

We discussed the life cycle...



Does anyone know how to fix the flipped pictures??! Frustrated.



And did this super fun little big project. We started out in groups painting trees....trees don't look like lollipops...they have trunks and stems and branches...

You think I let them just use brown paint?? NO way Jose, they had to mix their colors to make brown. It made for a really neat textured look!

Then we added these things...

The boys made leaves.



and we (the girls that are WAAAY outnumbered by the boys) did "girl things" and made these pretty little flowers.

Then....

Winter snowflakes with marshmallows, summer small green apples with an apple sponge, big fall red apples with a real apple!


Put it all together and you get....

 


I don't mean to brag but I mean....this is good right?!?  I LOVE the way the bright spring apple blossoms pop in the hall! Even Mrs. Hobin came by to say she thought it was a project Ms. Flores, our art teacher, had done. Nope! It was just those 5 and 6 year olds down here in K-6!

We are in the process of writing about each part of the life cycle/season underneath. We've only done winter so far.

And guess what?

Yep, we even had fun cleaning up after all our mess. Enter: baby wipes.



Today Mrs. Hyde, our U of H friend, taught a lesson about different types of animals. They played a fun game on the smart board and did a sort like this in their science journals. 

And that's all folks....well, hardly.  We still have a bunch to learn about living and non living things!