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Science "Fair"

Greetings!

This spring seems quite rainy right now, for which I am quite happy.

I think I'm going to combine the family blog with my school blog. I have two because it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I don't have the time to write two blogs! Especially if they have the same audience. So silly. 

Anyway, if I had not mentioned it before, Jack started 1st grade work about 5 weeks ago. We are so proud of him and he loves it still. His favorite subject right now is science. The theme of our textbook is life on the farm. So our year will go over plants, animals, geology, and weather mostly. Right now we are into plants: how they grow, how we use them, and classifying seeds and plants by type. 

The most fun has been using our lessons practically by working on a garden! We have two roots growing in water on his desk, some peas starting in plastic cup "greenhouses" and lots more outside. We are mostly doing containers. We started 4 types of lettuce, a handful of beets, three hanging tomato plants (hoping for salsa!), four types of small carrots, beans, cucumber, and a trash barrel potato garden. I finally have a use for my old trash barrel! I am not the best gardener, but I hope that the book we ordered with this lesson plan will help us out this year. So far the beets and lettuce are still alive! Yay!!

We also bought a small barrel compost bin and we put our food scraps and extra straw in it. I think it is a great life cycle lesson for Jack. 

Here are some pictures of our "garden ". Maybe the next one will have lots of big plants to show you. 



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