This week we have been learning about gardens!
We started out by learning about the parts of plants:
Seeds
Roots
Stem
Leaves
Flower
Fruit
We then learned about the needs of plants:
Soil
Water
Sun
Air
And planted our own seeds!
Watch them grow!!
We also made these FUN SOCK CREATURES!!! I did this when I taught kindergarten, and it was a huge hit here in preschool too! I took lots of photos, but my computer broke and I'm pretty sure the photos were swallowed up in the belly of that computer. But here is one of our sock creatures growing "hair" from grass seed!
As the hair grows, the kiddos get to give it a hair cut!!
We did many fun things during our Garden Unit, but I lost a whole bunch of those photos :( One of my favorite books to read during Garden Week is Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens. The class made a garden mural on the wall of plants that grow on both the top and bottom of a garden.
We culminated our unit by having a "Eating Parts of Plants" party! (yes, I did have to remind them that you can't just go ripping up plants out of the ground and eat them!) We ate sunflower SEEDS, carrots for the ROOTS, celery for the STEM, lettuce for the LEAF, broccoli for the FLOWER, and apple slices for the FRUIT! Then we GRAPHED which part of the plant was our favorite part to eat!
It was a great way to end our fun week of gardening!!
