Monday, May 14, 2012

Teaching children joy: Earth Part 1

 Teaching children joy:  Earth Part 1
"Growing cup"


 As part of our teaching children joy series we are moving on to joy of the earth.  With spring underway this is a wonderful time a year to focus on nature.  Today we made a visible "growing cup".  

We chose to use beans for our seeds since they grow rather fast.  Using a clear plastic cup, fill it with potting soil.  Now push your seeds down along the side of the cup so that the seed is still visible.  Water and set in a window.
 Fluttershy will be in charge of watering her plant everyday.  As the seed grows sends out roots we should be able to watch them grow. 

2 comments:

  1. very neat idea! do you think a 2 year old would be interested in doing this?

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  2. My 4 year old was more interested in it. You can see my 2 year old in the back ground playing with fancy rocks. lol

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