Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

Our field trip in the words of Macy D.

Some of our class at the Conservatory. It was humongous and the flowers smelled terrific!

We were listening to our guide tell us what kind of plants were in this garden.


We got to plant a seed in this garden. It was a radish seed.


Our classmate Kirsten planting a radish with Ms. Angie.


We got to create violet pictures. We were given a violet. We used the darkest petal and folded it in half. We then wrote our name on a white card. It was fun!
Our guide pulled a carrot out of the ground. You wouldn't want to eat this one!

This is Jack pulling out a carrot too. It was a different carrot and it was smaller. You could eat this one!
This is Horsetail. It looked like bamboo but it isn't. Also, if rain falls it will go down into the tube and if you pull it back and let it go water will shoot out!
This is a garden snake. It ate a frog! It was gross!!!
I saw eight turtles on our trip. They were snapping turtles.

It was a fun trip! It was my favorite field trip we have had this year! My favorite part was when I went into the Conservatory. It had a lot of flowers and if you went into some of the rooms mist would come on! The mist was for helping to keep water on the plants. I hope I can come back again!