Good day, Gardeners!
We usually make "Cycle Stories" in the Fall.
Today we tried this activity in Spring!
We found many amazing examples of plants in different life cycle stages:
- Go for a walk or look out the window...
- What examples of plant life cycles can you find?
- Collect or draw your Cycle Story!
*What other cycles are there in our lives?
*We are also hearing the story, "The Boy Who Grew a Forest," by Sophia Gholz and using the platform Vooks to watch it!
Greetings Gardeners!
We focused on animal adaptations, so this week, let's focus on some plant adaptations!
A fun way to look at plant superpowers is to look at how seeds travel from place to place:
Okay Gardeners, when I think of "cute and cuddly," I don't always think of animals who eat other animals, BUT, there are some really important critters in the garden who eat the bugs, who eat our plants!
Today we'll focus on adorable invertebrate predators - animals who have no bones and eat other animals.
I think they're pretty cute!
What do you think?
1. The Jumping Spider:
In honor of Earth Day, we're seeing the story called "One Plastic Bag."
It's a story about women in Africa cleaning their village and tackling the HUGE problem of plastic waste.
Plastic doesn't decompose - it just piles up forever.
What can you do with all of the plastic you use?
Could you use ZERO plastic today?
Hola todos - hoy, celebramos los granjeros!
Today, we celebrate farm workers!
*Each year, we honor and celebrate the lives of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta - Mexican farm workers who are famous for uniting workers in their fight for better wages, conditions, and basic human rights.
*Working in the fields is very hard work and without people to care for, plant, and harvest crops, we wouldn't have any food!
* President Barak Obama declared Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, on Cesar Chavez's birthday!
AND - it was Dolores Huerta who began using the phrase, "Si, se puede!" during strikes (Obama later adopted the phrase for his campaign!)
* A less-often-told story is the life and legacy of Larry Itliong - a Filipino farm worker who actually started The Delano Grape Strike.
*Itliong demanded wages equal to the federal minimum wage - this means that for YEARS, farm workers were being paid LESS THAN the minimum wage and many farm workers lived in labor camps.
*Because both unions joined together, they were able to win better working conditions and they formed the United Farm Workers in August 1966.
Good day, Gardeners! We usually make "Cycle Stories" in the Fall. Today we tried this activity in Spring! We found many amazing...
