Week 28: April 18-22 - The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
The Seeds students on our excursion to Parque Luis Muñoz Marín assemble themselves on a lifesize Chess board.
God allowed for us to have not one, but two amazing full days outdoors in two great parks. Check out all the pictures below in our gallery. Also, if you are interested in one of our spring clubs and/or our summer program, click the button below.
Estrella shows off her latest masterpiece.
The Garden children got a chance to honor Miss Nicole this week as it was her birthday! We were also so excited to show them that our new tree had blossomed! The children worked on observational drawings of the tree and after they had finished they shared with us what name the tree should have. Then we let them know that the Seeds students would vote on their suggestions. The name that had the most votes was “Robi”
On Thursday at the park we announced the new name and congratulated Matías for his suggestion. Our day at the park was filled with gross motor activities. There was so much of nature to take in! We also took advantage of the fun playground! We played “Simon Says” and had fun with the parachute and playing soccer.
View from above
The Garden kids take in a great view from atop the bleachers.
CURRENT MEMORY VERSE
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...he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,”
Wonder!
Observing the caterpillars on the milkweed.
Mrs. Vivi leads worship with her guitar as the children do their reflections.
We held our classes on Zoom on Wednesday, but still had a great time as usual. We worked on some maps in History/Studio time some of which you can see in the photos below.
On Friday at the park, we enjoyed a time of worship as Mrs. Vivi played guitar and sang.
Moths, hummingbirds, and bats were our featured pollinators this week in Science. We learned that hummingbirds collect pollen on their heads and beaks while they hover around a flower and that moths are attracted to flowers that have sweet smells in the evenings. Bats are nocturnal pollinators as well but are attracted instead to musty smelling flowers. We discussed that even though wind pollination is possible, plants must have lots of pollen in order for the pollination to be successful. Therefore, animal pollination is much more effective. We also discussed plants that are able to self-pollinate, namely those that God has blessed us with in order to consume as food. God cares for us so much that he made so much of the food we eat from plants that can self-pollinate.
On Friday during our outdoor experience we had the joy of seeing many beautiful monarch butterflies working on pollinating some milkweed plants. We were treated very kindly by the employees of the plant nursery and they even let us take a chrysalis to observe and watch it develop into a butterfly at Seeds. They also gave us many caterpillars with our purchase of several milkweed plants so that we could follow all the process of metamorphosis. We are excited to observe and share them with all the students this week. We were able to use the skills we learned about map making and map reading on Wednesday during our Zoom History class (check out the map gallery below), as we read the map of the park and made our way to the Plant Nursery. Not one explorer was lost!
Supplemental Readings for SEEDS
The Last 500 Years
P. 44-45 The Empire of Napoleon
P. 54-55 Revolutions in South America
