Category: Science

More Plant Experiments …

This afternoon we did preparations on a lot of different experiments …

We did pairs of plants in pots which we will be treating differently …

One will get water, one will not …

One will get sunlight, one will not …


One has roots, one had its roots removed …


One has leaves, one had its leaves removed …

We ‘planted’ some avocado pits (seeds) …

We put seeds in three containers, one each with soil, sand, and clay … we will await the outcome. (picture to come)

These are the plants we used …

We are still awaiting our beans-in-bags to sprout.  We are thinking it hasn’t been warm enough, or sunny enough, on our windows … we are still hopeful 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Exploring Plants

We have begun our exploration of all things plants. Students planted seeds into little pots – they had a choice of four different seed types: Cosmos, Forget-Me-Knots, Zinnias, and Asters.

We put soaked overnight Lima beans into Ziplock bags with paper towels and taped them to our classroom windows.  We hope to see growth soon.  A few are looking promising, as of this afternoon.

We did an experiment with white flowers and celery placed into jars of water. One was the ‘control’ – meaning that it was just in clear water. Two other jars had food colouring (one blue and one red) with celery and white flowers in them.  Another set had one large bunch of flowers with one stalk that was divided into two jars, one with red and one with blue food colouring.


Students noticed that the food colouring had moved up the stems into the leaves and the flowers.

We also planted peas into a large pot.  Most were planted on the right-hand side of the pot straight out of the package.  On the left we soaked the peas overnight.  Our objective is to see which side grows first / fastest.


We will be continuing with our explorations tomorrow … stay tuned …

Antarctic Delivery 🐧

We have had a very exciting week! On Monday we received a package sent from the South Pole! It was an extremely cold package and had air holes punched into it …

In the package was a penguin!!

She came along with this letter from an ‘Admiral Drake’.

There was also a journal and a carry bag.


The penguin, named Pringle, began her home visits on Monday evening with Calla.  On Tuesday morning we heard all about Pringle’s visit when Calla shared her journal writing with us. The visits have continued this week with Samyar (Tuesday) and Rose (Wednesday). Tonight Pringle is spending the night with Patrick. Each morning, after a visit, the student reads their journal entry and shares the pictures they have drawn.  We will be continuing through the class list so that everyone has a chance to have Pringle visit them at home. Please help your child enjoy these visits by assisting, where necessary, with their writing and pictures.

In our classroom we have also got a lot of other penguins who have come for a visit.

We also have a lot of journals, from previous classes of Mrs. Temple’s, who have been lucky enough to have had visits from Pringle.

With this package also came the novel “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”.  We read a chapter each day.  So far Mr. Popper, a house painter from a small town who has a fascination with everything from the Antarctic, has received a live Adélie penguin from an Admiral Drake. He has named this penguin Captain Cook.

We will be spending the next several weeks learning about several different species of penguins – there are 18 different species – and doing many different activities, both scientific and, of course (😉) art based.

Stay tuned.