We started with breakfast and journaling time. Today we learned about water and the water cycle. Mr. Johnson explained how water goes from earth to the sky as clouds. We also watched a little bit of a video about the water cycle from Mr. Gettig's computer. We learned about evaporation, condensation, and water quality. Mr. Johnson demonstrated this by making a cloud in a jar. Here is a video of it.
Part of our lesson was learning about water quality. Mr. Johnson showed us that the quality of water can be measured by looking at what kind of things live in the water. Some bugs can live in dirty water while some are much more sensitive. Tomorrow, we will be measuring the quality of water in a nearby creek and report our findings to the scientists that track that stuff. We get to be volunteer scientists for a day! To practice, we were each given a sheet with a list of bugs found in a pretend river. We looked at the bugs, identified them, and wrote our findings on a water quality data form. Then we calculated the water quality for our pretend rivers. We are ready for the creek tomorrow!
After the lesson on water, it was time for Mr. Johnson to go to his meeting. Mr. Gettig took us outside and we pulled weeds for awhile. The rain over the weekend made them grow fast! Our vegetables are growing good too, especially the peppers. We were able to pick some of them! Here are pictures of our first pepper harvest.
We didn't know it, but Mr. Johnson and Mr. Gettig were busy last Friday building. We went and looked at the new gardening boxes near the playground. They are made from really strong materials and look cool! We lined them with landscape lining and put a layer of dead leaves on top of that. We will be adding soil and planting more very soon.
After lunch and free time, we read, wrote in our journals, worked on our picture book, and listened as Mr. Gettig read out loud to us. Tomorrow, we are going to be volunteer scientists and take a special field trip. Check back for pictures!
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