Learning all about plants:
We just completed our latest unit on plants. After reading and researching about photosynthesis, chlorophyl, and root systems, we dived into a few projects. We tried to germinate an avocado pit (once with a conventional pit and once with an organic pit, both faile
d) as well as a potato (failing now). I'm not sure why they aren't working, other than I do *not* have a green thumb. We followed directions, but for whatever reason (maybe it's winter and we don't have enough sunlight) they did not sprout.
We did get to explore a local store (3 miles from home) that we've never been to before and found it to be a fabulous, locally owned store. There, we purchased seeds and grew some wheat grass and cress (pictured in a heart formation) which worked great in less than a week. We had fun sketching them each day as there was a lot of rapid growth to keep us interested.
At the end of our unit, we made Japanese gardens and wrote Haikus to display with them.
Daughter's garden and haiku (could not convince her it was not a zen garden):
"A Zen Garden"
Here's a zen garden
Zen gardens are beautiful
I made mine today
Son's garden and haiku
"My Seeds"
Seed grow in the soil
They need water and sunlight
They become flowers
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