Posted in Book Units (other than FIAR)

This coming week we are going to be studying plants.

Once again, some fabulous books out there for our week with plants! Here are the books we will be reading:

 

Here are the activities, crafts and lessons we will be doing:

*We will be doing a few of the lessons from the HSS unit on The Gardener bySarah Stewart. (especially the letter writing lesson and the planting of a flower in a teacup - how pretty!)

*What do plants needs? We will be doing the favorite plant experiment of all time...planting seeds in different pots and putting 1 pot in light and one in the dark - what happens? Then we will water 1 and not water another - what happens? I think the girls will really enjoy this experiment and we will learn a lot too!

*We have started our tabletop garden and are drawing pictures in our notebook at each stage of growth. I had mentioned that we did something similar to this last year. So, this year, we are adding a few new dimensions. This year we are drawing our veggies/plants in our nature journal, measuring the growth and recording that as well.

*We are going to be planting our sunflower house seeds this week! Yipee!

*The girls are enjoying the flower picture cards - we have played memory with them, as well as learning how to pronounce some of the difficult flower names. We have spotted several of these flowers on our street!

*HERE is a cute tissue paper sunflower craft!

*And here are the directions for making daffodils out of egg cartons!

*I think we may also press fresh flowers into contact paper to make a pretty wall hanging. The girls love collecting different wild flowers (and weeds) from our yard and this will give us something pretty to do with them! First, we will flatten them with a big, heavy book. And then we will press them into the contact paper.

*I will introduce the parts of a plant and parts of a flower, using these cards.

*we will be adding several pages to our nature journal - parts of a seed, parts of a plant, etc.

I found a you tube video of someone singing  Inch by Inch - The Garden Song. If you notice, it is listed as a book up above. I found it at the library, and then I found this video. So, we will listen to this at some point as well.