Earth Day

Today was planting day! Everyone had a hand in getting the plants we bought at the Nursery last week in to the ground, from adding fresh soil, arranging the flower placement, digging holes, to watering. 

Yuval and Sanaa helped to decide where plants would go!

Rishabh was eager to help clean the yard debris,  but even more excited to take an excursion to the dump to get rid of it!

Maliya and Sydney took an up close look at the root system of one of our plants.
"I've never seen yellow roots before"-Maliya

Bora was an amazing helper when it came to digging up holes in the ground! He says he gets lots of practice at home in his Mom's garden.

 While planting a garden was our class' Earth Day contribution, other rooms released ladybugs on to our playground to help eat any  unwanted aphids that may try to eat our plants for dinner! All this excitement was caught on the videocameras of Fox12 News and KGW8 News stations! Click here to read the article printed from Fox 12 News.

Nursery Field Trip

This year for Earth Day our class is learning about how to clean the air. Topics such as pollution, its causes, and how to clean the air through recycling and planting plants have been discussed on a daily basis. It is so important to instill a sense of responsibility towards Mother Nature in this young generation, and what better way to do so than to get them out into the community and see first hand how they can be a part of the solution!

We focused on flowers that will attract insects and butterflies, as well as tried to choose plants that will bloom at different times of year to create a year round garden. 

Duck Pond



The class had a blast at the Duck Pond! It is such a great place to go and "just be". On our journey we came across the ever popular Mallard Duck, the Wood Duck, and Red Winged Blackbirds.

The pond! We are so lucky to have this habitat right down the road from our school!



The Ducks were so eager to greet us, hoping we had food, I'm sure.





The whole class got an up close and personal view of these fantastic creatures





Nesting mother duck and her protective mate. He would quack if anyone got too close.



Everyone spent a few quiet moments drawing what they could see and hear.



Wind Study

 How can you create wind energy? After studying the element of wind Dishitha and a few other classmates went outside at recess to see if they could feel wind after discovering that if somthethin moves fast, a gust of fast air wizzes by. This was a fun in depth study where students also tested if items would move if blown by the wind of a hair dryer, as well as create items in the classroom that they could take outside to test if wind was present (items included homemade pinwheels, flags, a tree with moving leaves, and a lightweight house made from taped together paper).