Our 2013 Concert!

Science Fair

A walk around the garden

We make a wormery

A visit to the Botanical Garden 'Carlos Thays'

A visit to the Botanical Garden 'Carlos Thays'.

Today we visit the Botnnical Garden 'Carlos Thays' in Palermo.

 

 We go there with our teachers Cristina, Graciela and Silvia.   

Anita's mother comes with us too.  She is a photographer.  She is going to take wonderful pictures.

 


We are very happy!

We go there by bus.  It is not far from our school.





Carlos Thays was a French architect and landscape designer.  He designed the garden.

The garden was inaugurated on September 7, 1898. 





It was declared a national monument in 1996.

There are a number of sculptures and monuments inside the garden.

There is a map of the place at the entrance.

We must be very careful.  We mustn't walk on the grass.  We mustn't pick flowers, fruit or leaves.

A guide helps us during our visit.

She gives us some forms.  We must watch the parts of the plants and draw them there.

Now we are ready to start working.

After so much work, we take a rest.

And get ready to sow some seeds.

If you want to get more information about this beautiful place, you can access these links:

http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/espaciopublico/mantenimiento/espaciosverdes/jardinbotanico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Botanical_Garden 

We visit the greengrocer's

Shhh! Detectives at work!

We start a multiple germination

We start our own vegetable garden

What is inside a seed?

Before we meet Lorena again, we share our ideas.  Inside a seed there is:

• another seed
• absolutely nothing
• sap
• a plant
• something horrible

Our teachers, Matilde and Silvia, put some seeds in a glass with water.

The following day, when Lorena comes, we open the seeds in two.



 

Seeds and more seeds!

There is a binocular lens in our school.

Today we watch some of the seeds with the binocular lens.  It's a wonderful experience!

We watch a lettuce seed.

                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  

Exploring the diversity of seeds

We share our ideas in class.

A seed is:

• Something you can plant/sow to get fruit and vegetables.  
• A part of the plant that can turn into a new plant.  

With these ideas in mind, we meet Lorena Passarelli, a Teacher Trainer for the Programa Huertas Escolares.  Lorena gives us a lot of information about seeds.

 

She brings her private collection of seeds.

There are different seeds in it: lettuce seeds, peach seeds, pea seeds and lots more.


We touch the seeds.  We watch them with our own eyes.

 


We watch them with magnifying glasses.

We play a guessing game.


We classify them according to colour, size, shape and species.

 

We are very happy.  Lorena gives us a piece of homework.  We must think what is inside a seed.  We are seed detectives now!

We go on a garden scavenger hunt

Now we know what we need to start a garden, we go on a garden scavenger hunt.  We visit 6th. form's vegetable garden

and we watch the plants they are growing there.

We see radishes, 

We see lettuce

 We see broad beans pods

We keep a record of the things we see

We watch  

We draw

We colour

We share