...and Garden

In the month of October we studied gardening in our coop preschool. Each week we broke it down into topics we wanted to teach them about. A couple of the topics were fruits, seeds, flowers, roots, stems, and leaves, pests and pollinators, and soil and compost. 

This was during the roots, stems, and leaves lesson. We first had them examine some of the differences in each of these groups. They cut and ripped them up and also tried some when they felt the urge. Then we gave them toothpicks and they made their own people from all of the parts!  

This was a beehive at a local garden. We were lucky enough to have one of the workers come show the kids the beehive and explain some interesting facts to them. Landon pointing as usual. 

Here is our group with their little bee wings and antennae. 

One of the moms in our group filled little cups with juice and placed them around the butterfly garden area. Then she gave each of the children a straw which they used to drink up the "nectar" they found. 

Here is Lu in his bee wings that I made from a hanger and black stockings and some glitter glue. I love this little face! 

This is from our soil lesson. They places sediment in a bottle filled with water and watched it settle to see the different layers of things in the soil. Landon is in the "put it in" phase so this was a great activity for him. 

They also made mud pies using rock sprinkles as a topping. 

This picture is from our compost lesson. We set up an obstacle course for our little worms to crawl through while collecting pieces of fruits and veggies to bring to the compost pile in their worm hole.

We are having lots of fun with our themes and Maddox is learning so much. The things that he recites surprise me on a daily basis. We have a letter we concentrate on each week and he is picking them up pretty well. Maddox knows how to spell his name but has yet to really write it. He doesn't do too much writing yet he will randomly write individual letters on paper or his chalkboard. This is most likely due to the fact that he is not into activities which require sitting down for more then a couple seconds. It is going to be interesting when he goes to school that is for sure. I can hear the poor teacher now. "Maddox sit, Maddox sit, Maddox sit" all day. I love the energy he has and how much fun he has every day.