During my lesson about seeds, students were able to examine different types of seeds, how they travel, and how they grow.  To finish off our lesson each student created their own art mosaic made of different colored seeds!

Last year was the first year that I helped 3rd grade at Linville-Edom Elementary review their unit on soil for their SOL test.  Needless to say the test scores showed that the kids were paying attention!  This year I headed down to Linville Edom once again to teach students about soil, layers, types of soil, etc.  We had a blast…literally!  During our soil shake experiment we forgot to loosen the lid so the air pressure could escape so we had a soil milkshake all over the desk.  I’m sure the kids will never forget!  We also examined rocks, sand, silt, and clay soils with an experiment to see which soil had the quickest water runoff.  A highlight of the lesson was going outside school grounds to collect several soil samples to look at.  Lastly, we finished the unit off with reviewing decomposers, producers, and consumers by bringing in the worm bin!

I am sure glad the warm weather is back!  One reason-we can finally get back into our school gardens to plant.  I’m always amazed at how much the kids enjoy digging in the soil, picking weeds, and harvesting their crops.  Even on hot days they dig right in!  This month we have been working to prepare the garden beds and planting flowers, squash, beans, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peppers, and pumpkins.  I can’t wait to bite into a juicy strawberry!