Kindergarten
Environmental Education
Kindergarten- Decomposing Pumpkin and Compost
Date: November 2018
Teacher: Allyson Sealfon
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: After visiting Gaver Farm in Mt. Airy, on our Fall field trip, we carved a pumpkin and read Pumpkin Jack (a book about a pumpkin that decomposes and grows again the next Spring). Students made predictions about various items that decompose. We put different items in the pumpkin and covered it with dirt in a pot. We will dig it out on Earth Day to see which items decomposed and which items remained intact.
Teacher: Allyson Sealfon
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: After visiting Gaver Farm in Mt. Airy, on our Fall field trip, we carved a pumpkin and read Pumpkin Jack (a book about a pumpkin that decomposes and grows again the next Spring). Students made predictions about various items that decompose. We put different items in the pumpkin and covered it with dirt in a pot. We will dig it out on Earth Day to see which items decomposed and which items remained intact.
Earth Day Update- On Earth Day, we were surprised and excited to see 3 pumpkin plants sprouting in our decomposing bucket. We could not find our apple core, grape stems and tissues. They decomposed! We dug out baggies, and chip wrappers and tin cans and were sad to see that they looked exactly the same.
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Kindergarten- Monarch Life Cycle
Date: August/September 2018
Teachers: Linda Black, Mary Schmidt, Heather Conaway, Allyson Sealfon, Kim Dunn, Patti Hultquist, Janelle Creighton
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: When the school year began, kindergarten students arrived to classrooms which contained monarch eggs, or tiny monarch caterpillars. They observed and took care of the caterpillars, feeding them milkweed from our gardens. Students watched as the caterpillars formed a chrysalis and then emerged as beautiful butterflies. The kindergartners learned about the Monarch’s journey to Mexico and re-enacted how the butterflies fly around our school campus.
Teachers: Linda Black, Mary Schmidt, Heather Conaway, Allyson Sealfon, Kim Dunn, Patti Hultquist, Janelle Creighton
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: When the school year began, kindergarten students arrived to classrooms which contained monarch eggs, or tiny monarch caterpillars. They observed and took care of the caterpillars, feeding them milkweed from our gardens. Students watched as the caterpillars formed a chrysalis and then emerged as beautiful butterflies. The kindergartners learned about the Monarch’s journey to Mexico and re-enacted how the butterflies fly around our school campus.
Observing a newly emerged Monarch in the classroom
Kindergartners imitating the flight of the Monarch around gardens at Parr’s Ridge and then to Mexico
Kindergarten- Growing seeds to observe
Date: February 2019
Teacher: Janelle Creighton Grade: Kindergarten Description: Kindergarten students in Ms. Creighton’s class planted seeds in ziplock baggies with paper towels, and did the same in cups. They observed which seeds grew quicker, and watched the roots reach down and stems reach up! |
Seeds in a kindergarten window and on the windowsill for students to observe growth
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KINDERGARTEN- Bear branch Nature center field trip
Date: April 2018, April 2019
Teacher: Linda Black, Mary Schmidt, Heather Conaway, Allyson Sealfon, Kim Dunn, Patti Hultquist, Janelle Creighton
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: Each April, Kindergartners take a field trip to Bear Branch Nature Center in Westminster, Maryland. Students participate in their “Leapin’ Lifecycles” program and learn about lifecycles and search for animals in various life stages at Lake Hashawha. Students hiked the trails, learned about various amphibians, dipped nets into the lake, observed captive animals and explored the nature center.
Teacher: Linda Black, Mary Schmidt, Heather Conaway, Allyson Sealfon, Kim Dunn, Patti Hultquist, Janelle Creighton
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: Each April, Kindergartners take a field trip to Bear Branch Nature Center in Westminster, Maryland. Students participate in their “Leapin’ Lifecycles” program and learn about lifecycles and search for animals in various life stages at Lake Hashawha. Students hiked the trails, learned about various amphibians, dipped nets into the lake, observed captive animals and explored the nature center.