Wednesday Gardening Exploration

When friends arrived this morning, they were invited to examine few gardening and nature books along with growth cycle photos of green beens, spinach, radishes, and sunflowers displayed on the lunch table. Some friends enthusiastically told us about their gardens at home. 

We also invited friends to paint with photos of the above vegetables and sunflowers available for reference. We took a look at the printed words, Green Beans, Radish, Spinach, and Sunflowers and talked about the first letter in each word. 

At circle, we read the book, Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.  We were delighted by the green wiggly worm (as Finley described it), the celadon luna moth, the glowing green fireflies, and the green tree ripe with red apples.

Next we learned The Apple Rhyme. 

Five little apples sitting on the floor, we pick one up and then there are four.

Four little apples up in a tree, we take one down and then there are three.

Three little apples we know what to do, we pick one up and then there are two.

Two little apples sitting in the sun, we pick one up and then there is one. 

One little apple in our lunch, we pick it up and crunch, crunch, crunch.

These invitations are in preparation for our soil delivery (happening Tuesday) for our garden beds. Friends are excited about starting beens, spinach, sunflowers, and radishes (along with other edibles) to eventually plant in our new garden beds. Over the next few days we’ll continue to talk and explore gardening and growth cycles with books, art, rhymes, discussion, and other. We’ll then begin our planting experiments!