THREE, FOUR, PLANT!
The middle group DV Mak continues with activities related to the „Lets go green“ project. Little botanists, already rich in knowledge about gardening, diligently take care of, cooperate, discover the satisfaction of the work invested and achieved.
This month we dedicated ourselves to create an outdoor garden on the terrace in front of the room where we planted herbs that we researched, tasted, made a herbarium and “fragrant game”, and in all activities we included numerical values and the concept of number.
• Count – water it
Everyday activity in which, according to the agreed schedule, children should water the tomato and pepper seedlings with a watering can in such a way that each child waters 10 seedlings and sprays the plant 5 times.
• Herbs
During the week, children get acquainted with new plant names: rosemary, sage, basil, mint, thyme, and research reveals new scents, flavors, differences in the structure of the plant … – sort / compare.
• Three, Four, Plant!
Designing an outdoor garden required measuring space (counting feet), measuring how many plants fit in one pot (palms), how much soil fits in one pot (buckets), and when we prepared everything in large stone pots the children shook out the soil that they first chop into garden tools, add compost and transplant plants.
By taking care of the potatoes we planted in the 11th month, the children managed to grow potatoes, and to everyone’s delight, we were able to pick and eat them. We washed the potatoes, boiled them, and picked herbs in the garden, which we chopped with a knife and mixed into butter. We counted the potatoes, divided them, so they cut their potatoes with a knife and had the task of counting all the potatoes again.
• Herbarium
Cutting, sorting herbs into newsprint, writing names by gluing to cardboard
• Scented cups
Chop the herbs with scissors and separate into cups according to type. At the bottom of the cup we wrote the initial letter of the plant that the children put in the cup. The task is to try to guess which plant is inside according to the smell, and they help each other with the written initial letter. When they recognize the name of a plant, they find a card with that name and compose that word, the name, on a magnetic board.
In the absence of space for new seedlings, we work together to measure how many seedlings fit on one shelf and how many shelves we need for new plants.