In Science we are learning about living things. Today we thought about plants. We decided to go outside with our clipboards and pencils to find as many different kinds of plants as we could.

Plant Hunt on PhotoPeach

 

We talked about being scientists and that we would have to look closely at the plants we were going to sketch.  Here are some of our sketches:

 

We also compared the plants in our classroom to the trees we can see in our forest. We made a list of similarities and differences. Here are a few of the ideas we added to our lists:

Similarities

• trees and house plants both have roots
• trees and house plants get water from the soil by sucking it up with their roots
• trees and house plants both have stems (Trees have really big stems!)
• trees and plants are green (We talked about chlorophyll.)
• trees and house plants both need sun and make their own food (We talked about photosynthesis.)

Differences

• house plants have leaves (ours does) and the trees in the forest have leaves or needles
• trees have woody stems that are much bigger than house plant stems
• trees are taller than house plants
• you can climb a tree, but you can’t climb our house plants
• trees do better outside in the winter