Science Projects

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Penguins

We read this book and learned alot about penguins.

Here is some of the penguin art the children made.

The penguin is a flightless bird. There are many different types of penguins. We learned all about Emperor penguins. We found penguins to be very interesting birds.

The Emperor is the largest of the 17 penguin species.

Emperors are the deepest divers of any bird.

They are also very strong birds.

The mummy lays her egg in mid-May, then leaves to spend the winter at sea.

The daddy spends the next 65 days looking after the egg which he rests on his feet.

In mid-July, when the mummy returns, she finds the daddy by having memorised his call. The daddy penguin carefully gives the egg to the mummy. The egg hatches soon after.

Emperor chicks grow quickly because they have only five months (that is just from when we started school to now) to reach the stage where they can fend for themselves. (we dont think we are quite ready to leave home just yet)

Penguins eat Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum. They also eat other fish, Antarctic krill and some species of squid

Gardening in junior infants

We were learning what plants and seeds need to help them grow. They need sunshine, oxygen water and soil to grow. We all planted seeds in our mini garden. We planted sunflowers and baby carrots. We have to look after them and make sure they get enough water to help them grow.

We even found some creatures in the garden. We found "an itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worm" from the song we learned recently.

Painted lady baby caterpillars

Looking at roots

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

We planted seeds last Thursday. Today we took off the front panel of our Root View container, and sure enough we can see the roots, stems and leaves of the radishes and the turnips. The other seeds have not begun to grow yet.