This afternoon, one student was on a mission to peel and plant as many “helicopter seeds” as she could. She decided after sometime that she may need to enlist the help of some of her friends if she truly wanted to plant the most seeds. So she sent out a bulletin to anyone on the playground that she needed help! At first just a few friends came over. Then, before she knew it, almost the whole class was asking how to open the helicopters and how deep to dig the holes. 
It wasn’t long before one of the students noted that they would need to water the seeds if they wanted them to grow and thankfully we already had plenty of sunshine. Now we just have to sit and wait. Will we have a brand new tree jutting out of the grass when we return tomorrow? Only time will tell! 
Flooding the Nile
When we first started our investigation of Ancient Egypt, many of the students wanted to know where people got their food and how they lived back then. As a means to answer this question, we began reading a book that explained that the Nile river provided the Egyptian people with fertile soil each summer when it would overflow onto the banks. The people would plant seeds including wheat, barley, beans, and peas. Then they would let nature do the rest.
To demonstrate this, we created our own river bed out of some potting soil, foil, rocks, and lots of water! We then planted some grass seed on the river banks and proceeded to flood the river. The water spilled over the edges of the river, effectively watering the seeds. Now we wait. Hopefully by the time we return from spring break, we will begin to see some noticeable changes in our river banks.
