How Does Your Garden Grow?

Churchville Elementary SchoolSecond Grade LMC Classes

Ready to head outside for pictures of the hill and our future garden.

This is the back of our school looking toward the library media center.

THE HILL!!!

These are more pictures of the ugly hill.

Second grade photographers.

This is spring and the hill still ugly.

Mrs. Harmon works on cutting locust sapplings.

This is Coach Harmon spraying the weeds on the hill.

They put this plastic wire on the ground to try to keep the hill from eroding. It worked, but it is ugly.

These are books and videos about erosion and gardening. We were able to buy them with money from the VAE.

Thanks to the VAE!

A research project.

What is Investigation?

Observation, questions, hypothesis, model, conclusion

Living ThingsLiving Things ~ Plants by Tucker, Abby, Kelsi and JaredLiving things grow, change, and react to the

sun. The plant’s resources it needs are air, water and sun. Leaves make food from the sun to eat. Roots in soil get water from the ground. Flowers hold baby seedlings and when it dies or wilts it will use them to grow new plants.

Characteristic of PlantsBy Tara, Madison, Luke Keirsten and EmilyPlants can reproduce.The soil is needed to help them grow.Plants need food which it can get from the

leaves.Plants grow and die.Plants are like humans in what they need, but

they can’t walk.

What is Soil?By Carlee, Serena, Cody and Levi

Some people call soil dirt. Soil is earth. It is the top part of the earth. It is made up of things that once lived and things that never lived. Plants grow in earth. Soil can be moved by erosion.

Erosion and Weathering

By Trent, Katelyn, Ashley, Sam and JoshWeathering is “the process that weakens

rocks. Erosion is the “moving of rocks and soil.” Erosion can happen by water, ice or wind.

References

Dirt on Dirt ( Paulette Bourgeois)Science as Inquiry for Children (Schlessinger Science Library)Characteristics of Plants (Schlessinger Science Library)How the Land ChangesCochran. Mountains, Erosion, and Weathering. From Discovery Education. Video Segment. 2000. What is soil?  Erosion Experiments with Soil 100% Educational Videos. "Erosion."Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

Our letter we wrote to our parents.  

    Dear Families, We are making a new garden on the hill outside the library. Our school received a grant from the Valley Alliance

for Education to help us make the garden. They gave us money to buy books, videos and tools for our garden. Several nurseries are going to help us, too. Vulcan Materials is donating stone for our garden. Even Buffalo Gap students are going to help us! We are wondering if you can help us with the flowers. If you are digging up any perennials or bulbs such as daffodils, lilies, and iris and would like to share them with our garden, we would love to have them. Please package them any way you want and write us a note about what kind of flower it is. Don’t forget to write your name, too. Please send them in anytime until the Monday, May 4. Oh, yes, we will also be glad to plant any flower you would like to buy for us. Thanks so much for making our school more beautiful.

Sincerely, Second Grade Students