Reader Rock Garden

Yesterday, we walked to Reader Rock Garden. It is SO beautiful there! We took time to do scientific sketches of some of the flowers. There were so many different types of flowers; you could take two steps and see ten different kinds. We saw a big variety of flower colours, a huge bee, and a caterpillar. The caterpillar was on its way to become a beautiful moth. Everyone should visit the Reader Rock Garden this summer!

"It was impossible to not see one flower colour." ~ Oliver

"My Grade Three teacher Ms Harris said that nature is never just one colour and I believe it!" ~ Cora

"More than half the garden is just flowers." ~ HC

"We had a lot of fun and I noticed that the caterpillar was soft and smooth." ~ Ekagra

"I observed that none of the flowers looked the same. Some had jagged leaves, some had smooth leaves, some had simple petals and some had compound petals." ~ Wynn

"Everywhere I walked, there was flowers everywhere. You couldn't walk anywhere without seeing so many different kinds." ~ Effie

"Everywhere you go, there was wildlife: mosquitos, bees, and more." ~ AA

"The caterpillar that we found had fluff that makes you itchy and it's supposed to protect the caterpillar." ~ Gillian

"I had so much fun looking at the flowers but I got like 20 mosquito bites and now I'm very itchy." ~ EF

"I noticed that an ant crawled out of a small hole so I'm guessing there was an ant colony." ~ Viaan

"My favourite part was the waterfall." ~ Davyd

Back at school today, we sorted our visual journal sketches into different categories based on the features of the plants. For example, we came up with sorting rules like: petal colour, smooth and jagged leaves, value of the colour of the leaves, simple and compound leaves or flowers, and thorns/no thorns.

In all, this was a great final Community Walk!