Transcript How Does Your Garden Grow?

Churchville Elementary School
Second 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 Things
 Living Things ~ Plants
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by Tucker, Abby, Kelsi and Jared
 Living 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 Plants
 By Tara, Madison, Luke Keirsten and Emily
 Plants 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 Josh
 Weathering 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 Changes
Cochran. 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.
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 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.
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Sincerely,
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Second Grade Students
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