PLANT PARTS SONG that we learned with motions! Here we are pictured singing the song with Mrs. Hayden's class. Here are the words to the song: Root, root...root, root, root! The ROOT holds the plant into the ground. It gathers up water from all around. Root, root...root, root, root! Stem, stem...stem, stem, stem! The STEM is like and elevator up from the ground. Water goes up and sugar goes down. Stem, stem... stem, stem, stem! Leaf, leaf...leaf, leaf, leaf! From carbon dioxide, water, and sun, The LEAF makes sugar and oxygen. Leaf, leaf...leaf, leaf, leaf! Flower, flower...flower, flower, flower! The FLOWER is dressed so beautifully. It holds the pollen and attracts the bee. Flower, flower...flower, flower, flower! Fruit, fruit...fruit, fruit, fruit! A FRUIT is a grown up ovary, With seeds inside kept safe as can be Fruit, fruit...fruit, fruit, fruit! Seed, seed...seed, seed, seed! The SEED holds life: it falls to earth. It sprouts. It grows. It's a new plant's birth. Seed, seed...seed, seed, seed! We experienced a 'gathering walk' in order to collect materials for this activity. This activity promotes direct engagement with nature through color, texture, and shape. We learned about what types of leaves would be best for this project. Chlorophyll: The role of chlorophyll in photosynthesis is vital. Chlorophyll, which resides in the chloroplasts of plants, is the green pigment that is necessary in order for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water, using sunlight, into oxygen and glucose. During photosynthesis, chlorophyll captures the sun’s rays and creates sugary carbohydrates or energy, which allows the plant to grow. Looking for seed pods!!!! Finding PARTS of PLANTS in the garden: ROOTS, STEMS, LEAVES, FLOWERS, FRUITS, and SEEDS! RED Squirrels VS GRAY Squirrels!! Did you know that squirrels hide their food in different ways?? The way they hide acorns also impacts the forest!! We were RED and GRAY squirrels and had an experiment. Gray squirrels are scatter hoarders, and spend the summer burying acorns and other nuts in throughout their territory. Gray squirrels play the scatter hoarding game well, and will actually fake bury acorn in case other squirrels, or even birds like blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata), are watching to steal their nuts. They will also come back, dig a nut up and move it to a new location to make sure it is safe! Squirrels are also surprisingly sophisticated about choosing which food to cache. They will often choose to cache red oak acorns, which germinate in the spring but usually eat “white” oak acorns on the spot. White oaks will germinate in the fall and quickly lose their nutritional value if stored for long in the ground. Scatter hoarding has profoundly affected the ecology of gray squirrels. Squirrels have evolved a detailed spatial memory, and recover about 40-80 percent of their hundreds of caches. Scattering individual nuts across the landscape means that recovering their food depends more on spatial memory than defending an area, and gray squirrels often have overlapping home ranges, share scent posts, and will even share winter nests with other squirrels of the same sex. By contrast red squirrels (Tamiasciurus douglasii) store all the nuts they gather in a central larder and are highly territorial. The scatter hoarding of gray squirrels also plays an important role in forest regeneration, as scatter hoarding squirrels are essentially planting hundreds or thousands of nuts throughout the forest. All of the nuts that a squirrel forgets are ready to germinate into young trees in the spring. The work of the squirrels provides them food for the winter, makes them an often annoyingly frequent visitor to camera traps, and also spreads helps every nut bearing tree that bears nuts through the forest to grow in the spring and renew the forest. Taken from: https://emammal.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/gray-squirrels-and-scatter-hoarding/ The CHEERIOS are the acorns. Each child hid 10. The students by Mrs. Miller hid their's all in ONE SPOT... much easier to find!
This was a fun experiment to show the students the differences in the squirrels.
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