Day 4 - Farmers Market and Microscopes

Today we got a great start with breakfast in the room and by journaling. Today was also our first trip to the farmers market, so we worked together to create a list of questions for our research. Our questions were:

• Where do your seeds come from?
• How long did it take for _____ to grow?
• How many different types of plants do you grow?
• What jobs do you do to make your plants grow?
• How do you know when to pick?
• How do you decide the price?

With clipboards and our questions in hand, we walked to the farmers market, which is just a few blocks away. Here is a video with pictures of what we did on our field trip.




After lunch and silent reading time, we explored microscopes! We learned that a microscope magnifies whatever is being viewed by 4, 10, and sometimes 40 times! To demonstrate, Mr. Johnson showed us the letter 'e' under the microscope connected to the computer.


After that, we were able to use the microscopes that Mr. Johnson got out for us. He and Miss Smith helped us get the different slides of corn parts focused so that we could draw them. The tiny little things under the microscope were cells. We learned that every living thing is made up of cells, even people!


On Monday, we will see more pictures of cells and start another week of Garden Camp!