Watching Our Seeds

After just a few days our seeds starting growing! Several of the kids took their seeds home to try and start a garden. =)

Plants... continued!

Along with our Plants A, B, and C... we also tried a little experiment with celery and carnations. We learned that plants "drink" in water through their roots, pull it up through their stem (like a straw!) and finally, it goes out to the leaves and petals.

We put a bunch of white carnations in blue food coloring, and a couple of stalks of celery in purple food coloring. (Why celery? The long crunchy part that people eat is the stem!) After a few hours, and then a couple of days, we checked back to see what had happened.

 Can you see the blue starting to appear in the petals?

This photo was a few days after we started our experiment. The celery tops were starting to get a little gross, but you could definitely see the color!

Plants!

We read A Tiny Seed by Eric Carle in our reading series.  It worked out well since we've been studying life science! As we read the story, we learned more about plants and what they need to grow and flourish. (Our new favorite vocabulary word!)

As we read and talked about what plants might need to survive, we made a few predictions about which of our plants would flourish. It's been nice and sunny out, so we're getting plenty of sunshine! 

We feel a little sorry for Plant C... stuck away in our closet!