THE TEACHING EXPRESS: seeds

Hello there:
After our last break before the end of the course i have lots of things to tell you.

I will start talking about our seeds and plants work:

Last week we read "Oh say can you seed?" by Dr. Seuss. It is an awesome book because as we are planting beans it shows us how they grow amazingly well.

we also talked about how plants can be useful for us and completed this simple activity:

We planted cat grass on plastic cups where we glued eyes, noses and mouths and now we have to wait to see it grow.

                                              our garden is growing day by day .....

                HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT SEEDS AND PLANTS
                      To finish talking about seeds and plants we took part in a contest:

kids had to choose among these 4 activities: what's my seed, how seeds grow, parts of a plant and how seeds travel.
If they got a right answer they would won a sticker.

After ten great days of spring holidays we came back full of energy to start our work with seeds, plants and flowers...

We introduced the topic through "the tiny seed" story.

After reading the story we completed a simple story map:

We also sort the things that are good or bad for the tiny seed. First, on the board and then on paper at table time:

(this is an adaptation of an activity i founf on the net)

HOW PLANTS GROW DRAMATIZATION: in small groups we represented how plants grow following this sequence:

1. The tiny seeds are sleeping underground,
2. Look it is raining now (Kids at the table pretend to be the rain).
3. The tiny seeds wake up and start to grow into plants.
4. Look it is sunny now(kids at the table pretend to be the sun shining).
5. The plants keep growing and we can see their leaves.
6. Look now it is raining and sunny( one table is the rain the other the sun).
7. Our plants are now big and beautiful.