Our third grade Super Heroes received a Bonnie Plant cabbage to participate in a $1,000.00 scholarship contest...look for details on the Bonnie Plant webpage (find the link on our Sponsor page).
We learned to make and use a sundial today
Our third grade Super Heroes received a Bonnie Plant cabbage to participate in a $1,000.00 scholarship contest...look for details on the Bonnie Plant webpage (find the link on our Sponsor page). We learned to make and use a sundial today
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This week we kept busy with clearing brush, screening soil mixed with gravel, and getting rid of our weed pile. This week's attention getters...Are pumpkins vegetables? "A pumpkin is not a vegetable; it's a fruit! In fact, it's a berry. Pumpkins belong to the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes cucumbers, melons, squash, and gourds. Within this family is the genus Cucurbita which includes gourds, winter and summer squash, and all varieties of pumpkin. There are four species that are considered "pumpkins," but only one is the species most people would recognize as the traditional pumpkin used for carving jack-o-lanterns and baking pies" (Swan's, 2013). (Retrieved from: http://www.thepumpkinfarm.com/faq.html) This weeks attention getters...Yes, that is a swarm of bees. They went unnoticed earlier in the morning but as it warmed up they began to actively fly around. Mr. Julio called for support and within minutes someone showed up to remove the bees using a vacuum, he (Don) sucked up the bees and told me that they will be released at a safe location. Don also informed me that these bees were most likely a hybrid of an African bee, making them a more aggressive form of our usually passive honey bee. Bees may seem intimidating but remember that bees are important because they pollinate our plants and its unfortunate the bee population is declining. Did you know that the President signed a memorandum to establish a federal pollinator strategy? In 2013 "23.2% of the country's managed honeybee colonies died" (Washington Post, 2014, July 10) What happened to the tomato plant?
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