Planting a Rainbow

All things in the garden is the current trend in Escuelita! We've been reading Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and discovering a rainbow of colors, shapes textures, and scents! Exploring flowers through art has left our classroom with so much bright and cheerful artwork.

We look at flowers and draw or paint what we see, noticing the stems, leaves, petals, and roots.

We feel flowers and create similar texture through tissue paper collage.

We bury seeds and flowers in our play dough gardens.

 

And build flower shapes and parts with blocks and found objects, too! I see stems, leaves, petals and roots, do you? 

This week in Science we continued to talk about seeds. We investigated seeds from sunflowers and pomegranates.

We planted our first tulip bulbs! 

We counted seeds. We measured seeds. We used tweezers to pick out the seeds. We compared the seeds. We looked at the seeds through our magnifying glasses. We made seeds with clay. We tasted the seeds and we even painted with the pomegranate seeds.

We also continued to talk about the parts of the flower. The seed, the roots, the stem, the pistil, and the petals.