Mr. M's Mighty Kindergarten M&M's

Today in reading we read Feelings.  We again returned to the computer lab for an extensive Explode the Code lesson and practice.  I will begin to use a set time period for computer lab every Tuesday and Thursday.  This does not mean the children should not practice at home from time to time.  We will also do some IXL math on occasion int the lab.  Kids had PE today.  We celebrated Laina once again in achieving 10% proficiency, and two hours on IXL math.

Since nature has not been cooperating with finding land snails outside I have thrown a lesson or two on plants into our science block of time.  Today we talked about plants and what they need to grow.  We watched a wonderful video made for kids demonstrated the plant cycle from seed to fruit or flowers.
In the classroom we will create our own hydro garden and see if we can gleans
row lima beans.  More than a couple kids said yuck.  Each one has created a garden environment, and tomorrow we will plant our seeds.  As in keeping with science and experimentation, we will also try to grow three of our plants without one on the critical components plants need to grow - sun, water, and oxygen.  So we will plant one seed without benefit of sun,  one without water, and one without oxygen.  A poll of the children 's thoughts on the experiment is as follows:

• 5 out of 9 children think that you cannot grow plants in a bag, PERIOD.

• 7 out of 9 think you need soil to grow plants.
• 7 out of 9 think the seed that is deprived of oxygen will NOT grow
• 8 out of 9 think the seed deprived of sun will NOT grow
• 7 out of 9 think the seed deprived of water will NOT grow.