Plant life cycle

We have been studying plants the whole life cycle and learned about photosynthesis and other things about plants. The leaves looked crumpled up and an unhealthy purple after we did pollination. After pollinating pods started to grow with seeds in side. Our stem started leaning over and was purple. The soil was also very dry. Because the soil was very dry it did not get a lot of minerals and water. The plant needs minerals to survive without them. We have grown bigger pods from the last blog post. Our plant’s leaves have died and the stem is wilting. Our flowers have also disappeared and the petals fell off. It seems like after pollinating it dies. I wonder why this happens. I think this happens because the petals no longer have to advertise and there is no point of the plant because it already reproduced. Our pods haven’t had a chance to grow very big so I think there will be a small number of seeds. It has two lumps in it so I think there are going to be two pods. We have seven pods now. I have learned that the leaves soak up sunlight and have chlorophyll to make food. I also learned that photosynthesis is the process that plants use to make food. Pollination is when some pollen touches other pollen it makes seed pods to make new life.The stems job is to keep the plant strait and the flowers pollinate. We cracked open the seed pods and and tried to guess how many seeds were in a pod. There were about three in each pod. Only big pods had seeds in them. I wonder how the plants pollination creates a seed.

Home Alone

You have to watch! It is about a boy who was left home alone and he sets traps for robbers. They even show all of the fails they had to make the movie.the boys traps are really funny it is a challenge to try not to laugh . Here are some photos. The robbers trick the family that he was a police officer. This way he knows that the family is going on vacation. After you watch the movie you will instantly want to make traps.  To learn more watch the movie…Here are some photos.

Maglev Day 3

We  had our success! After a lot of tries we had finally got it.We got to have a special cup that could hold the most marbles.After we put all the marbles in we tested to see if it could keep levitating.It barley worked it  was efficient but not very safe . what we did was we put strip magnets in three rows of three.It made it levitate so much higher then one. After hat we used a special cup to  hold more marbles. We finally got it!