This week 6th grade preformed a comedy skit for 4th grade. At the end of the play the 4th graders got to choose if Freddie was innocent or not. The play was about Freddie fungus, who was on trial for the murder of Jeremiah, who was a Sycamore tree. Freddie was accused with murder because  Freddie started growing on Jeremiah when Jeremiah got very ill and died. Freddie never killed Jeremiah because fungus only grow on plants that are dying. Which means Jeremiah was already dying before Freddie came.

This is a Sycamore tree.

As the skit went on you could see how other animals\plants benefited from Freddie. For example Vera Violet. The soil was rich after Jeremiah’s death which made her prettier.

We also learned this week about the Carbon cycle. The Carbon cycle shows how a life-sustaining resource is moved around for every living thing to benefit it. Carbon is a greenhouse gas. Which heats up the earth. Without Carbon the world would be a round piece of snow and ice. Now we are putting in too much Carbon in the earth’s atmosphere which is heating up the earth, which is the cause of global warming.