Spring is here!
The weather is beautiful here and we are certainly taking advantage of it!
This past week we learned all about planting.
We are keeping a journal of our plants as they grow as well. It was such a beautiful day that we took our flower pots outside and planted on our picnic table. It was a lot of fun and the kids really enjoyed it. Check out these pictures from my unit plan.
This is the observation journal we are keeping over the next few weeks. The kids had to make a prediction of what their flower will look like when it blooms. I don't have a picture of the observation page, but the kids write the date, measure their plant, and then draw and write about what their plant looks like. It's really cool to see the progress over time.
We read the tiny seed by Eric Carle. The kids had to write about what happened to the seed during each season. This is a really great book to use when teaching planting.
Autumn: Blowing away in the wind.
Winter: It was snowing and the seeds were resting.
Spring: The seeds were growing.
Summer: The tiny seed grew into a big one.
This is our experiment to see what plants need in order to grow. We plant four bean seeds. We give one soil, water and light. Another gets no water. We put one in a brown paper bag so it gets no light. And then we wrapped the other bean in a wet piece of paper towel to see if it will grow with no soil. After doing the experiment children make their predictions of which will grow. After about a week, we go back and check which ones grew.
(We planted in the old cups from when we dyed eggs at easter-- love to recycle!)
Be sure to check out my unit plan for a lot of other great planting activities :)
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