Sunflower Day!

Beautiful van Gogh inspired Art created with Mrs. Caporello

Sunflower Day was a HUGE success!!

     A big thank you to all the donated sunflowers! With your help, we were able to have a fantastic day culminating our plant unit.The 2AA owls started the day with sunflower math in Mrs. Atherton's room. They measured and weighed HUGE sunflower stalks and learned about diameter and circumference while measuring a large sunflower head. After that, they were headed to Mrs. Caporello's room to learn about the sunflower inspirations of van Gogh's work. They then used pastels to create their sunflower vase pictures (pictured above!). After a delicious sunflower seed snack provided by Reece and her family (THANK YOU!), they were right back at it! They worked together with imagery and word choice to draft a beautiful, sunflower poem with Mrs. Leonard and then headed straight to Ms. Riley's room for some serious estimating with seeds!

     While they were quite tired when they returned to our classroom, the learning wasn't complete just yet! It was the moment they all were waiting for: dissection! Using a magnifying glass to make careful observations, students examined each part of the sunflower: seed, root, stem, leaf, and flower. I was amazed by their noticings!

 

    After a fun-filled Sunflower Day, we made our final observations of our lima bean plants. Some made it all the way to sprouting leaves, while others were eaten by mold. No matter the result---we all learned a TON about the scientific process!

  

 Great work, Owls! Now onto our animal unit!