10,000 Visitors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that’s right! We have made it to 10,000 visitors!!! Over the past year we have had 7,000+ people visit our blog. It has been amazing seeing visitors from all over the world take a peek on the things we are doing and learning here. Getting nominated and being a finalist for Education blog and being the Edublog of the Week jsut recently are only a couple of the great things that have happened since starting the blog. However, the best thing has been the excitement, fun and the learning that continues to happen for our students outside the walls of our class through the use of this blog! I hope that it continues to be a powerful tool for you. As well, this blog will always be a place for former students and families to come and check out to see what is going on. Pleas come back.

If you are one of our visitors, please take a moment to send us a comment and help us celebrate this milestone!

Now for the bad news.

We had a bit of a tragedy today in Science. Mr. Hancock was carried the tomato plant tray over to a separate area of the class so that the students would not have to crowd around the desks to see the plants, when suddenly the tomato tray slid off the desk and landed, kerplunk!, on the floor.

Woe!!! Oh poor tomatoes!

Mr. Hancock tried to pick them up and repair the damage as best as he could. However, they are now all mixed up and some of them may not survive. The next 24hrs will be very important in determining whether the emergency surgery on the tomatoes worked. Hopefully they will re-root themselves and continue to grow. This could affect our experiment as the conditions have now changed. Time will tell.

Here are some pictures of the plants today. You can definitely tell the difference. The damaged ones (Seed B) are on the right.

We were also talking today about photosynthesis and how tomato plants help create the air we breathe. We also learned that the little hairs on the tomato plant secrete a liquid that make the smell of the tomato plants and also deter insects from wanting to hurt the plant. Very cool! Here is a video about photosynthesis.

On Friday, one of our students is leaving us. As the students have finally obtained their last star, we are going to have a combined party to celebrate getting to 10,000 visitors on our blog and to give our student a final farewell send-off. If you would like to donate something as a snack for the party, please bring it by around lunch hour or in the morning with your child. Thank you!