California Poppys

Oh how I love gardening. Frankly, I suck at it, but I still love it. In social studies we are learning about CA becoming a state. I was going to have them grow strawberries or grapes (2 if our biggest crops) but you have no idea how hard it is to find seeds for fruits!! My lovely husband drove around with me all day on Saturday trying to find them... Crazy.
Anyway, we planted our state flower instead. The kids wrote all sorts of CA facts around the cup. Did you know our state fish is the golden trout?!? So, now we wait for the sprouts. I can't wait :D
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A Rite of Passage

Back in October was the infamous CA mission project! Oh what fun! I got to bring in the report I wrote about my mission in 4th grade and got to see all of these beautiful projects.

I gave the class a choice of building a mission, writing a report, doing a powerpoint or anything else as long as they cleared it with me. 98% of the class ended up building missions so our room was FULL of awesome projects.

Notes for next year: be more clear on expections for actually building the mission (have them label it). Let them choose their own partners? Have everyone make a powerpoint for their presentation of the missions.

All in all, they were awesome!

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