After the glorious weather yesterday, this morning we made list of signs of spring, and noted that according to the calendar it officially begins on Sunday!

We are revisiting living versus nonliving things in science. We briefly talked about these in the fall when we had our caterpillars, but will be having a more in depth exploration this spring. Today we revisited the five needs of living things- water, food, air, light, and space- and then did an experiment around how birds meet their needs for food. Everyone had a dish with various foods, and four different beaks to use to move their food to their nests. The beaks were a clothespin, a toothpick, a spoon, and tweezers. Ask your child which beak he or she would want to have. Everyone did a great job of conducting the experiment thoughtfully and carefully recording the best beak for each food type.