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DREAMGARDEN BUILDERS

ARCOIRIS EN LONGWOOD

HARVEST OF PLENTY

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

SWALLOWTAIL

MÁS FOTOS

FLORECIMIENTO

MAS FOTOS

I COUNTED LEMON CUCUMBERS by MELISSA

This paragraph is about an activity we did in the garden. First our teacher gave us a plant to find in the garden. We made how many of those plants can we find. We made tally marks to show how much we counted.

EVERYTHING COUNTS IN THE GARDEN

LAKEVIEW BLOOMS

Lakeview School Garden had these wonderful "blooms" on the fencing around their garden. They were simple flower shapes cut out of thick cardboard and painted by the students using tempera paint. How can we make our school garden bloom with colorful art?

LONGWOOD TEACHERS PARTICIPATE IN GLC

6 teachers from Longwood went to visit Lakeview School Garden in Oakland as part of the Growing Learning Communities program. We saw how beautiful their garden is. They have about 10 large planter boxes filled with flowering plants like geranium, salvia, and petunias. We did an activity in the garden. We learned how to gently shake the leaves of a plant onto a cardboard tray to trap insects that we could examine. I found two spiders, a ladybug, a leafhopper, ants, inch worm larva, and aphids.

Shapes in the Garden

This was a great lesson. Identifying shapes is a standard found through-out the grade levels. As we know students have different learning styles and need many opportunities to solidify their learning of new material. This lesson was easy to prepare. I just cut up pieces of paper into circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. Then I had the students go into the garden looking for the shape they held. Once they found a shape they would hold the paper up to show they found the shape. The students had a great time and really demonstrated their knowledge of shapes.