When we out to the schoolyard today, Caleb saw the creepiest tree because it looked old and like it had a lot of hands. Another weird tree that Ty saw had only one leaf on it. The leaf was on the very top, and the rest of the branches were bare. Ty infers that it was too cold, and the rest of the leaves fell off. He thinks that one leaf was healthy.
Elizabeth saw a tree with holes in the bark that looked like eyes. Caleb thinks a woodpecker pecked the holes.
Lexus observed it was really wet outside yesterday. Patricio observed the field was covered with snow, and the playground didn’t have any snow on it. He infers that the kids on the playground made the snow melt faster.
Elizabeth observes that yesterday, the snow sounded crunchy when you walked on it, but today, it was softer. She saw that there were footprints and dog tracks in the snow, and the snow sparkled because the sunlight reflected off it.
The snow is sparkly, white, brown, dirty, and yellow. Dalia inferred that people step on the snow, mud got on it to make it dirty, and a dog might have peed on the yellow parts. Ty saw that the snow was black on the side of the road, and he inferred that the cars made the snow black.
We saw two of the weirdest leaves stuck together that had three little things popping out of it. We infer that a spider laid eggs on the leaf or that the leaf was burned by the sun.
We found a tree wolf spider when we got back to the classroom, and when you shine a flashlight on them in the dark, their eyes glow like cat’s eyes. The creature had a creepy reddish-tan body the size of a quarter with a brown head. The spider is not poisonous, but we became nervous because it was crawling fast at us. Mr. G found out that the spider eats pill bugs (rolly pollies).
