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PRAYING MANTIS by Room 16 Students

Ms. Young found this praying mantis outside her door. This praying mantis measures about 14 cm. A praying mantis is an insect. His color is green with purple stripes on his back. He has blue eyes. Insects have six legs, just like this praying mantis. The praying mantis lives in the garden with other insects like butterflies. He can climb and fly and walk. This praying mantis has a head, a thorax, an abdomen, legs and wings. We know a lot about this praying mantis but one thing we don't know is: What does he eat?

Flowers: Graph & Graph Again

Ms. MacNab's class learned about attributes. We sorted leaves into different categories according to their various attributes, then graphed them. Here are some of our graphs. We hope you like them!

HARDER SCHOOL GARDEN

I went to the Math in the Garden training today at Harder School. I was very impressed by their garden. They have 6 8 x 4 planter boxes that look like they are very accessible to even the youngest students. Maybe we should think about creating this size planter box at Longwood so that everybody can enjoy learning in the garden.

CENTIMETER BY CENTIMETER - RUBRIC

I taught this lesson from the Math in the Garden book. I developed this simple rubric for third graders to self-assess their learning.

1. PICK A PLANT OR LEAF THAT IS LESS THAN 30 CM
2. UNDERSTAND THE UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
(MM VERSUS CM, CM VERSUS INCHES)
3. CORRECTLY MEASURE THE OBJECT
4. ILLUSTRATE THE MEASUREMENT
5. EXPLAIN WHAT YOU DID