Our first science unit is called Structures of Life. We've started out by working with seeds. Students made estimates of how many seeds they thought were in various fruits. Those fruits included cantaloupes, peppers, watermelons, tomatoes and cucumbers. They then counted the seeds and wrote down properties of their seeds. Ask your child which fruit seeds their table group counted and how many there were. The vocabulary words we worked on include property, fruit and seed. Ask your child to name some properties of certain foods they eat in the next few days. Next week we will be sprouting seeds and recording the changes the various seeds go through over a span of time.
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