As we discussed in class, we are going to reach out to our new Australian friends and colleagues. We are going to do this in three ways:
1. I am asking that some of you respond to Mrs. Gow's question about our garden. You might share with her how we researched the plants and organized themselves.
2. Please find one of Mrs. Gow's students and introduce yourselves to them. You can find their blogs here.
3. Please look over the joint Australian/American assignment on animals that we will be collaborating on. You can find it here.
Have fun!
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Dear Mrs.Gow,
we are planting several things, such as herbs: mints, veggies:carrots etc, Fruits: watermelons, pumpkin, strawberry, and berry! Very wide selection of things we are planting... Our goal is to have the garden look like a face when its done, hope it turns out the way.
:P
regrowth
Hi, my name is katherine.
I think I posted stuff about me on one of your students called "amzy".
Our class planted a lot plants and vegetables. We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, watermelons, and potatoes. I think that tomatoes are now classified as a fruit? Well, for plants, the names of them are completly GONE from my memory. Sorry!
Oops, I posted my name on here! Mr.Ardito, can you pleas erase my name off of here?
Thanks.
DuH!95- outt
Dear Mrs.Gow,
We are planting many things in our garden, like herbs, and fruits.
Are garden is set up to look like a happy face!!!!
Cool right
-B.Z girl
Mr. Ardito,
how do you post a comment on the australian students blogs?
thanks
Dear Mrs. Gow
Our garden is going very well so far. We have most of the plants we want planted, but there are still some seeds that we need to grow in our classroom. We have made a watering schedule for the garden so we don't forget. We have done so much to make our garden great, so I think that it will turn out great! Good luck with yours!
-from Orangasnailsarecool!
Dear Mrs. Gow,
We planted many things in our garden. We planted vegetables such as carrots and tomatoes. We also planted many flowers (I don't know the names of them). We planted corn and watermelons. We made our garden in the shape of a smiley face, so the eyes are flowers, the nose is vegetables, the cheeks are strawberries, the mouth is an assortment of things (I'm not positive on what) and the ears are corn.
To choose the plants that we decided to plant, we got into small groups (of 2 people) and we did research projects. Each group had to choose 3 plants and then do a PowerPoint (slideshow of information) on why they are good plants to plant in the Ardito garden.
We had a lot of fun in the process and can't wait to see what the garden looks like when it grows! Thank you for taking the time to look at our slide show. I hope to hear back from you and your students!
Sincerely,
dance4peace xo
-a student of Mr. Ardito's 7th grade class
Hi Year 7 Students,
Thanks for all your messages about the garden. How many different fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts do we eat? You may like to try this brain-storming activity at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcdxvn6b_0c53fmscg
It is a table called "Parts of the Plant that we Eat" and I have given an example in each column. My class could think of sixty seven!
hi Mrs. Gow,
I wanted to try and answer your questions. For nuts , I was thinking of all the nuts I've ever eaten: Macadamia, Pistachio, Walnut, Almond, Hazelnut, Pine nut, Pecan, Peanut, Coconut(although we don't eat it all), Cashew, Brazil Nut and that's either all I've eaten or all I could think of. Some kinds of seeds we eat are pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, grape seeds, corn seeds and many others. I know we eat lots of different kinds of fruits and vegetables and they all help us, but if I were to name all of them it would take a lot of space and time. I bet our class will do the same activity you did in your class on the smart-board. I thank you again for taking time to look at our slideshow and garden.
-Green101
Dear Mrs. Glow
We planted several plants and flowers and fruit and vegatable such as watermelons, carrots, punkins. We have scheduled people to water our garden and when. We made our garden look like a smiley face.
Hi Mrs. Gow
The garden is going really well. We planted things such as flowers and fruits. We planted a lot of things like pumpkins, strawberries, and flowers. It was really fun when we planted them and the garden looks great.
Bye!
Hi Mrs. Gow this is rocker and i would like to say how cool it is that we are working with your class. This should be great. As you kn ow we planted a garden. It includes fruits, vegatables, flowers and herbs.
How is your garden?
rocker
Hi Mrs. Gow!
I’m so excited about doing this partnership with your class! To try and answer your question, our garden is going really well. People water everyday and there is caution tape surrounding it so no one tramples it. We’re going a lot of things, but my favorites are the watermelons, the pumpkins and the corn. The flowers are really pretty too but I can’t remember what there called. Thanks for watching our slideshow and I can’t wait to talk to everyone somemore!
Hi Mrs. Gow
Our garden is going great so far. Some of our flowers are already blooming so far. We planted some fruits, vegetables, herbs, and some flowers. Good luck with your garden.
This was posted by shqiponja
Ok, in response to the question on what we eat, I put a post on MY blog, which is insanely long. I thought of 132(!!!) things(not using google!!)!
MaDdScIeNcEgAl94 (:
Link to the post: http://justfrack.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/3/
hey Mrs.Gow,
Our garden is pretty cool. We have lots of flowers and herbs. We're even growing corn! Do you have corn in Australia? Even more cool than cornour garden is in the shape of smiley face!
What shape is your garden? What unique plant will you have in it?
B-D
(^sort of what our garden looks like)
Dear Mrs Gow and the Year 7 Science Students,
Two of the science classes in our grade have started planting a garden. Before we started, we had to do a lot of research to plan what types of plants could grow in the garden. We had to research how much water and sunlight they liked, as well as what type of care was needed to make them grow and survive. After everyone presented their slide show, we voted on which flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables we wanted to include. There was a lot of work involved before we got to the actual planting of the garden.
On the day of the planting, we took a small plot of land in the front of our school and planted things such as corn, tomatoes, flowers, basil, mint, strawberries and watermelons. It was really fun!
I think that the thing that will be challenging is the maintainence part of our garden. People have to be willing to come in on their own time to water and weed the garden. It will be very hard to organize, but we have to do it to make our garden survive.
I've had a lot of fun making this garden so far, and i can't wait to work with you and the kids in your class!
-potatopotahto
Dear Mrs.Gow,
I don't think I answered your questions about our garden enough. Mr.Ardito has two 7th grade classes and each of us with a partner made powerpoints (powerpoint is program that we have on the computer that allows you to make slideshows and presentations) about 3 things we woudl like in our garden. Then as a group of the two classes we chose a variety of flowers that are easy to grow, look pretty or they just thought they were cool and a variety of herbs and vegtables. So far the deer haven't eaten them, thankfully. We have a lot of Deer in New York. When you plant your garden you should think of you're local pests and come up with ways to prevent them from eating all your hard work!
:-)
-hope I answered your questions!!
Hi Mrs. Gow,
We planted a whole bunch of things in our garden. We planted some vegetables, flowers and fruits and herbs. We planted fruits like watermelons and strawberries, vegetables like carrots, flowers like foxgloves and so on. As of now our garden looks great.
-whitestripe
Dear Mrs. Gow,
Both of Mr. Ardito's 7th grade classes built a garden. So far our garden looks really good and we have vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers. It has been raining a lot so the plants have grown really well. Both of our classes voted on which plants to grow in the garden and we have most of the plants that were voted on. Our garden is set up in a happy face. =)
Dear Mrs. Gow,
This year in our science class we are planting a LOT of fruits, vegetable, herbs, etc. From what I can remember, we are planting corn, pumpkins, watermelons,strawberries and other berries. We also are planting corn,tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and I think potatoes. And I can't forget about all the flowers we planted, but I cannot remember all the names of them. But so far the garden is coming along really well and I can't wait to see next year in 8th grade.
Oh, and we planted it as a smiley face. I planted an "ear" of corn. =)
--mhmm95
Dear Mrs.Gow, we are planting lots of things! Potatoes, flowers, watermelon, strawberrys, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, carrots, pumpkins. There's probably more stuff, but no more pass my mind.
Dear Mrs. Gow,
We're growing a lot of stuff in our garden. We planted corn, cucumbers, watermelons, strawberries and lots and lots of flowers (I can't remember their names) in the shape of a face.
It took a LOT of work to get to the planting stage. We all made slide-shows about what plants we wanted to grow in our garden. Then we presented our nominees to the class. After that, we had to vote on our favorites. Once that was done, we started some of the seeds in our classroom. Finally, we had a big planting party to get our garden started!
I am so excited about working with your class!
From, peaceXO
Hi Mrs. gow,
We are planting fruits, vegetables, and flowers. We made a garden at are school. I helped in planting the corn with a couple of other kids. The garden's plants are all in a shape of a face. The corn was shaped in an "Ear", just like an ear of corn!
Hi Mrs. Gow,
We are planting all sorts of herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables in our garden. Some examples of each are basil, pansies??? watermelon, and carrots. I am very excited about getting together with your class and talking with students from around the world.
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GreenMango
Hi, my name is NotalexB.
We are planting, Plants, herbs and fruits.
We did not plant the garden very long ago and when we planted it, we tryed to make it look like a happy face but we failed.
I don't think we plated allot of things but most of the class dose.
Overall, i think our garden looks good.
Dear Mrs.Gow,
We have planted many things in our garden like Pumkins, WATERMELONS, AND MORE. OUR GARDEN IS SUPPOSE TO LOOK LIKE A FACE BUT IT DOENSN'T. WELL HOPE TO SEE YOU IN AMERICA SOMETIME AND IN OUR CLASS ROOM ALSO BYE.
Thanks to James for his comment on my blog and all the other students who have posted here. We are all looking forward to collaborating too. This week all year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students had to sit National literacy and numeracy tests - 5 tests at each level over three days.
I will take a picture of our very sad garden as a 'before' example to show you how much work we need to do!
I love the idea of an 'ear' of corn.
We are also planning a "Bush Food, Fibre and Medicine" garden at our school, which is about all the plants that indigenous people may have used hundreds of years ago. It won't need as much water as our vegetable garden, because native plants are adapted to our dry climate.
Hi Mrs. Gow!
We are planting lots of things. Like fruits, vegatables, flowers and herbs. We are trying to make it look like a face.
-Pie82
we are planting a lot of things in our garden the garden is shaped like a smiley. you need to look really closley to get it. the ears are corn the eys are flowers and the nose is tomatos. i forget what the mouth is . the garden is growing and growing and it looks great. i am looking foward to working with you and your class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will talk to you sooon!
We tried to shape our garden into a face while we planted it, but that did not work nearly as well as we thought it would. In our garden, we planted corn, strawberries, pumpkins, flowers and a bunch of other plants. All of the plants are growing really well a some of the strawberry plants even have a few green strawberries.
-Aidan :
Yeah, about the face thing... that really didn't work at all... Mr A. I tried the link that Mrs. Gow gave us but it brought me to some other page with something on Google. So I couldn't do that part, but I introduced myself to someone on the blog, and took a look (rhyme, heh heh) at the assignment that were doing.
P.s. Can you post the schedule for who's supposed to water the garden on the blog so people can check back whenever they want to find out? Thanks
Dear ms. Gow,
Our garden is doing very well we planted so much in it. We’ve got vegetables, Flowers, and fruits. They seem to be doing ok I see a change in our plants.
NOTTOM07
Thanks for all your comments folks! I hope all of you have recieved a response from my students. Rossy and Teek have now got a link to my blog (in the blogroll under year 7 Science) and they would love to have a comment too. You can see a photo of us all outside near the garden on my blog. How many students are in your class?
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