As part of our new ordered (vaguely timetabled) lives, we have been looking at plants.
We have grown fast seeds (cress) and slower seeds (basil). We have planted up small flower plants, tomatoes and peppers and watched them grow. We have watched daffodils bloom, flower and die and we currently have one sitting in a vase with green coloured water, the flower was supposed to change colour, but doesn't seem keen.
We have chitted our free potatoes and will be planting them up at the weekend. And Rich has dug and built a raised vegetable bed for us to grow a few of our own vegetables this year (still we wait for the allotment...)
We have propagated African violets from a leaf cutting and transplanted the strawberry runners.
LA has really enjoyed this project so far, and is keen to look at the seeds and plants each day to spot any tiny changes! She has taken on board much of the vocabulary and can now talk like a gardener to anyone who stands still long enough to listen!
Hopefully I can find a way to inspire her to put pen to paper and write or draw something about it soon, but so far no luck.
2 comments:
We did the colour thing at Montessori and the only colour that didn't seem to work was green - the red showed up beautifully, followed by the blue and the yellow. I thought it was odd at the time, should have followed it up really.
That's interesting.
Maybe we'll try red with celery later this week.
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