Nature Based Loose Parts! My favorite! Between going on walks with your children to find these treasures to watching how children reconnect with nature, nothing beats this. (Not to mention FREE!) Pinecones and sweet gum balls picked up from walk. Wood cookies cut from...
One of the last big projects I did with the children this year was a flower study. We looked at the work of Georgia O'Keefe and how she painted her flowers to fill the entire canvas. We noted three things that Georgia O'Keefe did: She painted the flowers to the...
Last week I had each color family create a little fairy garden for their table as a part of our study of plants. I told the children we will be building the garden weekly. This week we planted flowers in our gardens. It was great as the root system in the flowers...
Sometimes it is the simple ideas that capture a child. The children loved this project! This is one of those projects that reinforces the understanding of how a plant grows AND gives the opportunity for imaginative storytelling in its “pop-up” (the...
This week we are dwelling in the world of flowers and plants. I told the children I knew a “scientific illustrator” – a person who draws illustrations of nature. We had our own bean plants growing and I took one and displayed the roots, stem, and...
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