Health Component Added To Our ESP

The majority of our research, collection of information, and new concepts that we learn are put into our Electronic Student Portfolios. (ESP)   We have now added a 20 page Health Component (20 slides on power point) that will display the students' knowledge of what it takes to be and stay healthy.  This is coordinated with over 20 songs that we sing about the food pyramid, germs, exercise, eating and living healthy, and filthy habits that all help us to be healthy citizens.  It concludes with a contract/promise to do our best to make healthy choices.

Bulb Growing

Shhh! Don't tell anyone what kind of bulb we are forcing in our classroom.  We predicted what we were growing and what we thought might happen.  We then worked as botanists daily to record data.  Since we are using a clear vase with water instead of dirt to grow the bulb, we can observe what is happening that usually we would not be able to see with the roots growing in the dirt. 

What a treat this has been, as over the weekend on Day 5, the roots grew about 4 inches and completely took over the complete bottom part of the v-necked vase.   What we had available to observe on top was slow but progressive. And then the second shoot came up from the bulb. The students get so excited with each new development.  Our guesses and predictions will soon come to see whether or not we were correct!