Plant Tasting Party

After two weeks of learning about plants and how they grow, today we had the opportunity to eat several different parts of plants. We set up a buffet in the cafeteria and divided all of the plants into groups. There were seeds, roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruit. The children went down the line and helped themselves. After they recorded what they ate and what they liked or did not like. I was so proud of how adventurous they were! Everyone was willing to try a bite of everything! Well as least a nibble!
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Earth Day Trash Bash

Today we celebrated Earth Day by learning of big and small ways that we can help take care of and protect our planet. We read several stories and talked about what it means to reduce, reuse and recycle. One story we read was "The Great Trash Bash."  In this book a town had a trash bash and picked up litter around their city. The boys and girls sorted pictures of different recyclables into the appropriate category, graphed their results and then answered some questions about their graph. We listened to a song, "What a Wonderful World," and illustrated pictures for a book about the song. In the afternoon, the kids were given plastic gloves and grocery bags and we went around Bemis and picked up garbage that we found. We had our own Trash Bash. We filled up almost 25 bags with paper, snack wrappers, cardboard and plastic water bottles.    We will spend the next few days talking about ways we can make the earth a cleaner and better place to live.