We are having SO much fun with our "Things that grow" unit. Today we had a variety of sliced vegetables (squash, carrots, celery, corn, cucumber) to had to our art area for painting, but first we had a taste test. I was pleasantly surprised that most of the children wanted to eat the fresh veggies, and even more surprised that I had to stop them from eating ALL the veggies so that we would still have something to paint with. :)

Music

Little Seed (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

Here's a little seed in the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the warm sun, yellow and round.
Down comes the rain, wet and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow!

The Gardener Plants the Seeds (Tune "Farmer in the Dell")

The gardener plants the seeds.

High ho the derry oh,

The gardener plants the seeds.

Second Verse: The rain falls on the ground.

Third Verse: The sun shines bright and warm.

Fourth Verse: The seeds begin to grow.

Sensory Table

We placed gardening rocks, small flower pots, silk flowers, trowels, gardening gloves, and aprons in our sensory table. The kids loved "planting" the flowers. They dumped them out and did it over and over. The children in the block area helped them out by making a "garden wall" out of blocks to keep the garden safe. Great job kiddos! Wonderful team work!

Science Center

We placed cards and ink stampers from our Life cycles Theme Box showing the stages of plant growth. We are also planting a garden in cupcake holders and mini green houses to be later placed in a garden box. For now they are sitting in our science area window sill so we can view their sprouting. We are also going to grow lima beans (in plastic bags) to go along with our Jack in the Beanstalk story.