22 January 2009

Plant Unit: Lesson One

We started our unit on Plants last week.  We're using the curriculum "Great Science Adventures-Plants" to get us started on our way to creating our garden this year.

This week, we started our avocado project.  Today was day one:  we soaked our avocado seed, cut off the top 1 cm, and planted it:

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Each girl made a small book in which to record the growth progress.  The girls will draw a picture every 4 or 5 days and I'll take pictures.

We're also starting to sprout our own beans.  We didn't take them out of the water yet--apparently we forgot we have to wet them a few times a day, not immerse them longer than 24 hours, so tomorrow we'll change over to wetting them through a cheesecloth.  If it works well for us, we'll do it more often.  I like to make Thai and Chinese dishes, so having fresh sprouts will be great!

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I also checked out a few books on gardening and children.  There were some fantastic ideas for fairly easy projects that I'm really looking forward to doing with the kids.   

I'm posting a link a tthe top called "Backyard Science" which will highlight all of the science projects we do related to home and backyard.

Dawn

Posted by ~Dawn at Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Kathy_in_Colorado,  January 26, 2009 at 9:18 PM  

We love backyard science - I love gardening units

Can't wait to see how the plants do

I'm thinking of starting an herb unit in our kitchen - what do ya think?

;)

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