We celebrated Earth Day on April 22 by talking about how we could keep the Earth clean. We discussed throwing away garbage in trash cans instead of on the ground outside, and recycling items like paper, cans, and bottles.
Over the past two weeks we have learned about plants; what they need to grow (water, sun, air, sometimes soil), and the plant life cycle (seed, root, stem, leaves, flower). We read
Jack and the Beanstalk and then we grew our own bean stalks. We also did an experiment with white flowers and water with food coloring. To show how plants "drink" water we put food coloring in water and then put the stem of the flower in the water. Over the course of the day, the water went up the stem like a straw and turned the white flower a different color. We had red, yellow, blue, and green flowers by the end of the day. In the sand table we had black beans, pots, shovels, gloves, aprons, and fake flowers to pretend that we were planting flowers.
Earth Day
Plants
Gardeners at the Sand Table
Observing our bean seeds growing/completing a journal entry
Flowers made at the Art Center
Science Center- White flowers and food coloring experiment
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