Garden Week!

This week we learned about gardens, the parts of a plant, and what it takes for plants to grow!

We started off with a NEW DRAMATIC PLAY CENTER!!! THE FLOWER SHOP!!

We labeled the parts of a plant:

We planted our own plants!

We observed how a plant drinks water from the root and watched how the water travels up paper towels similar to the plant..... 

Plus we did some color mixing too! 

 We made observations as the water traveled...

 We learned that for a plant to grow, it needs:

Seed

Soil

Water

and

Air 

We checked our planted seeds each day before we got to take them home....

We read TOPS and BOTTOMS and made our own Tops and Bottoms Garden:

 To celebrate, we also made SOCK CREATURES..... 

 Here they are all ready to take home and take care of:

Hair starting to grow: 

On Friday, we ATE parts of plants! 

Say whaaaaat?

Yes... we ate 

SEEDS

ROOTS

STEMS

LEAVES

FLOWERS and FRUIT!

Then we graphed our favorite parts of the plant to eat:

Garden week is such a fun fun week!!

Garden Week!

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!!