Tag: botany

  • How do seeds travel?

    How do seeds travel?

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    We’ve been planting a garden. I am a terrible gardener, so we’re starting from seedlings I bought at the store. Since we have been studying plants with My Father’s World for our science lessons, and I want the kids to know plants don’t just come in a little pot from the store, we learned how…

  • Sunflower preschool art lesson

    Sunflower preschool art lesson

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    As we read and studied our way through the United States geography, we reached Kansas and I thought of two things: Wizard of Oz and sunflowers. As a kid when I stopped at the Kansas Welcome Center they gave me a package of sunflower seeds. These would sit in our car and we’d have fun looking…

  • Kansas: Sunflower math

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      Our math lesson for this week was tally marks, and I knew that if I made them learn how to count tally marks using the textbook they’d get all freaked out, so instead we pulled out our dry erase boards and made tally marks as we counted different objects. It was a most satisfying tally…

  • Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, or painting with flowers is difficult

    Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, or painting with flowers is difficult

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    I didn’t move to Texas until I was in 5th grade, so I missed out on several activities young Texans do as they grow up here. In high school, I interned in a kindergarten classroom and watched as they taught their Texas history unit, and taught about the symbols of Texas. Of course, they started with…