Thursday, May 25, 2017

Our 1st Pineapple!

We harvested our first pineapple!  It is from the pineapple crown from a fruit salad activity when the current girls who are in Grade 4 studied Fruits of Hawaii in first grade. Only took 3 years.




Check out our sunflower seeds too!  The girls are taking home seeds to plant at home.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Meet Our Tomato Beanstalk

It started out as a lanky tomato plant in a pot in the STEAM Lab. It grew longer so we clipped it up onto a line. Before we knew it, it kept growing longer and longer!

 Now it is almost across the room and even had flower blossoms!
 Since it is indoors, Keiko Sensei pollinated the flowers with a paintbrush.
It worked!  We have tomatoes!

Our Amazing Tomato Beanstalk Science Experiment! 
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The Best Cucumber Sandwiches

The girls learned how to make the best cucumber sandwiches. They were so good, we are going to make them for the next Tea Party!





We ate the entire tray of sandwiches! YUM!

Cucumber season in our Urban garden is now over. 
Time to plant something new!


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Do you know about Non-Source Point pollution?

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