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hands-on science & outdoor nature education class. rooted in playful learning & environmental stewardship🌸🦋🌶️🫜🌝🌎🌻🌱🪵🐛🐝🪱🐞

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This week in Living Classroom we observed seedling growth and taste tested some arugula and kale! K students are continuing to learn about what animals need to survive. The focus this week was shelter, so we made squirrel nests and observed a real nest in a tree behind our classroom! Students in grades 1, 2, and 3 are expanding their knowledge of life cycles by comparing and contrasting the life cycle of Monarchs🦋 and ladybugs.🐞 We looked at a real ladybug pupa up close and some young minds were definitely blown 🤯when they saw what a baby ladybug (larvae) looks like! by @breslivingclassroom

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This week we continued learning about life cycles of insects, trees, and plants! We observed Bresnahan tree foliage and made Autumn Rainbows with leaves! We learned how to identify a male vs. female Monarch & observed and sketched a caterpillar in “J” formation in our Field Journals! And finally we identified new growth and teeny tiny seedlings of our fall crops we started last week! by @breslivingclassroom

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This week Kindergarten students learned the difference between living (biotic) and non-living things (abiotic). They went on a scavenger hunt around the outdoor classroom and sorted what they found!

Checking out our “guests” in the Pollinator Palace! Also fondly referred to as the “Bug Hotel”, we were already able to spot evidence of different pollinator insects and critters preparing their safe cozy nests for overwintering!

3rd graders learned about and observed how different seed structures support plant life cycles and reproduction!

We spread LOTS of milkweed seeds this week!🦋

Assistant Superintendent Lisa Furlong stopped by to check out what we were working on! These 2nd graders were excited to show her the seeds we’ve been observing.

Seed sniff test!

Our caterpillars have been munching away and are just about ready for the next stage in their lifecycle, chrysalis!

More seed observations!

Living vs Non-Living Things!

1st graders learned about what plants need to survive! They sowed some fall crops like lettuce and radishes and took turns watering their seeds!

Playful learning with BUGS 🐛 🪲🪳🐞🐜🐝🪱

Mushrooms everywhere! by @breslivingclassroom

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Today we got our hands in the dirt! Students cleared weeds, added compost, learned about the difference between fall sowing and spring sowing and planted lettuce, kale, and radish seeds! Let’s hope for a late frost this year!🙏🏻🫜🥬 by @breslivingclassroom

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This week we shifted to unit 2: Our Community Trees! We will observe this big beautiful oak tree together, as well as several other on the Bres campus, seasonally to observe the changes that come with each new season. We did our first sketch in our new field journals, learned vocabulary words like “chlorophyll” and went on a leaf hunt for evidence of autumn! 🍁🍂 by @breslivingclassroom

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in our bug era! 🐞🐛🐜🪲🪳last week we learned a song to remember what makes an insect an insect, we used our super cool bug catchers to observe insects and crawlers around our outdoor classroom, and we learned about an invasive species and predator to the monarch, the chinese praying mantis 🚫 we even got to see him up close!! bugs can be creepy until you start to really learn how important they are to our local ecosystems! by @breslivingclassroom

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unit one: monarch butterfly conservation!🦋over the last few weeks students have been rearing a few wild monarch cats, have observed their life cycle from teeny egg to adult butterfly, got to tag and release with @monarch_watch and some lucky kids even got to see a chrysalis eclose! they are fascinated by the toxicity of milkweed and begging to plant their own! teaching kids about this beautiful bug is always pure magic!! by @breslivingclassroom

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swipe to read if you’re curious about this new class and page! 🙂 thanks so much everyone for the support!🦋 this is my dream job! by @breslivingclassroom

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look at these sweet little bees enjoying our native pollinator garden bed! 💕🐝 by @breslivingclassroom

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Our “Pollinator Palace” is complete! This will provide a safe nesting & overwintering habitat for our solitary bee friends (such as mason, leafcutter, carpenter, and miner bees). These non-aggressive native bees are pollinator POWERHOUSES and absolutely essential for growing our fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Keeping this “house” right by the garden is intentional & will help our crops thrive. Save the bees & protect our precious pollinators!!!! 🐝Our food supply literally depends on it! by @breslivingclassroom

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our spring veggies have been planted! kale, radish, spinach, carrots, swiss chard, sugar snap peas, asparagus, sweet potatoes, and celery! 🫛🥬🥕🫜🍠 by @breslivingclassroom

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