As you can tell he is really into purple right now. :-)
We read the book Sunflower Life Cycle by Jeff Bouter. It is perfect for showing pictures of each stage. 
We also told the story of Jack in the beanstalk. It was a very short story but we used little props and pretended to plant a seed. I feel like we could have gone a lot further into the story and planted our own seeds and over the next two weeks watch them grow in little windowsill plastic bag planters. Maybe that will be an activity for just me and Addie.
Then we decided to focus on parts of the flower; we talked about the roots, stem, leaves, and the flower petals. The girls made two pictures. The first picture was placing pieces of the flower in order to create a whole picture.
The second picture I had them paint glue and use pieces of tissue paper to decorate their flower. These look especially nice hanging in the window.
We also learned three new songs that taught us all about flowers.
The Seed Song
Seeds are planted deep deep deep
In the ground they sleep sleep sleep Yellow sunshine bright bright bright Raindrops falling light light quite
Gentle breezes blow up blow blow
Seeds begin to grow grow grow and grow and grow and grow and grow. Song to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star.
Flower Garden
The farmer plants the seeds
The farmer plants the seeds
Hi ho and Merry-O
The farmer plants the seeds.
Sung to the tune of the farmer in the Dell the following verses are as follows.
The rain begins to fall…
The sun begins to shine…
The plants begin to grow…
The buds all open up…
The corn is growing high…
The farmer picks the corn…
The farmer eats the corn…
Plant a Little Seed
Plant a little seed in the dark dark ground.
Outcomes the warm sun yellow and round.
Down comes the cool rain wet and slow. Up comes the little seed grow grow grow.
Sung to the tune I'm a little teapot.
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