Soil Layers Snack Attack

In Science class this year, we are studying Earth Science.  We started by studying the part that you can see, the crust.  This week we learned about the layers of the soil.  Can you name the five layers we used in our Soil Layers Snack?

Did you notice our name change?

Did you notice the change in our blog title?  Well, our classroom is moving to (drum roll please) the bottom floor of the building, where Ms. Cowart's class used to be.  We will have a "room warming party" when school begins to let students and parents see the new room and learn all about what we will be studying this year.

These are all our animals so far can't wait for more frogs and toads next week!

       This is our snail she had 3 baby's! One on April 29 @ 11:00 and to day May 1st she had 2 more! We are grateful we have them!

Cece and Ty Pond!

We been going to the frog pond! First we caught Cece , then Ty today! Ty is one the top and Cece is one the bottom!

Update on the Triops

As promised, here are some pictures of Triops.

Our trip to the Frog Pond

Today our class went to the frog pond behind Shedd Park.  We saw two Mallard ducks (a male and a female) with two turtles on a rock.  As we moved around the pond, we found lots and lots of snails.  Mrs. McDermott heard a frog and we went to investigate.  We found three frogs, but they were all too fast for us.  We also found a baby turtle, but it dove under the tall grass and we could not catch it.  When it was time for us to go, we saw another turtle and frog, but it was too late.  In the end, we caught one large snail and one baby snail.  We brought them back to the classroom for further observation.  We will return the snails to the pond at the beginning of next week.  We will also return to the frog pond at another time to see if we can find some tadpoles or frogs.