Worms?

For our latest field trip today, the students came home with an unusual souvenir-worms.

On our trip to the botanical gardens today, the students learned about different types of soil and a little about worms. Our class left the trip with our very own "Vermiculture" bucket. Over the course of the next two months we will be saving some of our morning food scraps and putting it into a bucket that contains some soil and worms. As the worms eat our scraps, they will produce waste, called "worm castings," that is an excellent soil.

If we do our jobs right, when we visit Boerner Botanical Gardens again in June, we should have a bucket of dirt and twice as many worms as we do now.

Field Trip

Reminder-We have our next field trip to Boerner Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, March 27. We will be back in time for lunch, but please remember to dress for the weather.

Field Trip

Yesterday the third grade classes took their second field trip to the Boerner Botanical Gardens. This field trip found the students working hard to understand the various parts of the plants and their functions. Each part of the plant was explained, and the students then had the opportunity to examine, dissect  and, much to the children's delight, eat the plant parts. Among the parts looked at were stems (celery), fruit (kiwi), and seeds (lima beans).

We will be attending two more trips to the gardens. The next one is sure to be very interesting-vermiculture is the topic. Click on the slide show to go to the web album.

Field Trip to Boerner Botanical Gardens

From the first day of school, the students have been learning about plants, plant parts, and seeds. To accompany these topics, the students will be going on a series of four field trips to the Boerner Botanical Gardens. Each of these trips will be about plants, but each will focus on a different aspect. Today the third grades went on the first trip of the series and learned about seeds, their similarities and differences, and why

Our First Field Trip

Today your child brought home a permission slip for the first field tip of the school year. This trip is to the Boerner Botanical Gardens and will be held this coming Tuesday, September 25. Because this field trip is next week, we do not have time to perform background checks on parent volunteers. Consequently, only those parents who have previously been cleared on a background check will be allowed to chaperone on this trip. I apologize if this causes an inconvenience. There will be seven more field trips this year so parents who would like to chaperone should have ample opportunity.

Field Trips!

The third grades will be going on several field trips this year. More details will follow, but if you'd like to plan ahead, here are the dates:

9/25-Boerner Botanical Gardens
10/19-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
1/16-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
2/8-Boerner Botanical Gardens
3/27-Boerner Botanical Gardens
4/19-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
5/20-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
6/6-Boerner Botanical Gardens