The Great Kapok Tree

This week we are looking into why author's write. We have discovered three main reasons: to entertain, to inform, or to persuade. We just finished reading The Great Kapok Tree and discovered that Lynn Cherry wrote to inform us all about what is happening in the rain forest. Did you know that the rain forest is being slowly cut down? So here are looking at ways we can help save the rain forest and our great WORLD!

Pick up litter 
Replant trees once they have been cut down
Recycle paper, bottles, and cans 
keep our yards cleaned up 
Conserve our water
tell people all about the problems in the rain forest 

What can you help us do?

Bats...Bats...BATS

Guess what we are learning about this week....wait for it.......wait for it.....BATS! That is right, we are learning all about those dark, creepy, night time creatures. Well at least that is what everyone thinks about them...our goal this week is to figure out just what bats are up to these days! So here we go again...we have the questions and we are hoping that YOU have the answers! So...

1. Why do some bats eat fruit for dinner?

2. How do bats have babies? 

3. Why are most bats misunderstood today?

4. What is a bat's prey?

5. Do bats have bones?

Now...we only hope you can help us answer these!

Signs of Winter

The Legend of the Persimmon: 

This morning we learned all about the seed of a persimmon. Did you know the seed has helped people determine the outcome for the winter to come. We learned the seed can have 3 different shapes inside.

Fork- The fork represents a mild winter 

Knife-The knife means the winter will be full of ice! 

Spoon- The spoon represents shoveling out lots of SNOW! 

....What did we find this year in our persimmon?.....

You guessed it, we found that this year our persimmon showed a SPOON! We are hoping for lots of snow. We also took the time to see what the Farmer's Almanac said about winter here in Arkansas. Guess what, it completely agreed with our persimmon. So here we go...getting ready for a cold winter to come! BRRRR....

Help us out...if you have cut open a persimmon please share what you found!