Sunday, November 21, 2010

Fun with Four Winds

 Thank you, Mrs. Rasher (Scott's mom) and Ms. Bates (Ian's mom) for coming in to teach us about nature! Last week's lesson was called "Traveling Seeds." Students learned a lot... and this lesson was delicious too. Here's the description of the lesson from the Four Winds website (http://www.fwni.org/):
Whenever you come home from a walk with burs on your socks or pop a jewelweed pod, you are playing a part in the dispersal of seeds. After a plant flowers and produces fertile seeds, those seeds must still find a spot to grow. We'll see what the inside of a seed looks like, how it holds all that is necessary for a new plant to grow, and explore outside to see the many different ways seeds move from place to place.
The puppet show is a popular way to start each Four Winds lesson. Students learn from  it and it's quite entertaining!
Students made a snack mix (GORP) made entirely of fruits and nuts. We examined the seeds that we could see. Students  each tried eating something new!
Delicious!
What types of seeds can your child tell you about?
Examining the parts of a lima bean.
Studying the seeds that are found in fruits, and eating it too!

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