The Square of LifeWe were very surprised by the biotic and abiotic things that surround RN Wilentz School. We went outside twice, once in March and once in April to record our findings and if we noticed any changes. The second time we saw much more because it was springtime and everything was bloomed.

Marking the Squares

From far away, it looks like grass and dirt

Close Observations

Is that a roly poly I see?

Our Worm

4-leaf clover

fungi

Dandelion buds

clover

AA- (see arrow)These plants are fun because we pick them, wrap the stem around the budPull and pop! The go pretty far!

Tree root

ComparisonsPerth Amboy, NJ and San Antonio, Texas

The difference between Perth Amboy and Texas are a few. One is that we have worms and Texas has spiders. We have metal but Texas doesn’t. We both don’t have frogs, lizards and snails in our squares. We both have ants, beetles, and flies. We had trees and mushrooms but Texas did not. We also found paper. We have small rocks and they have big rocks. Perth Amboy also has grass. We wish we could see Texas for ourselves. Ulises, Genesis, Michael

Perth Amboy, NJ and Hope, NJ Wow! Perth Amboy has ants, beetles, flying insects and so does Hope, NJ. The Hope Township Elementary School found

grass, bushes and mushrooms. We found all of those except bushes. We were scared to touch the mushroom because it could be poisonous. Except for the bushes, The Hope Township School found everything that the Wilentz School did. We also found out that the Hope School is only 62 miles from us. It must not be so different. Edward, Lizbeth, Nallely and Jerry

Perth Amboy, NJ and San Marzano di San Giuseppe , Italy  Hooray! This is so exciting. Perth Amboy and Italy is sort of the same. Perth Amboy has ants, beetles, flying bugs and worms.

Italy also found these creatures except for a spider. The Italians also found grass, trees and weeds, but Perth Amboy noticed a few more things than they did. We noticed grass, trees, weed and mushrooms. We both have dirt, plastic, paper and small rocks. This is AMAZING! Perth Amboy and Italy have matches and we are SO far away from each other. Diamond, Fernando