Plants

Peanuts and Apples

Parts of a Plant

Stems - Celery Experiment.   Place a stalk of celery in a glass of red water.  Watch leafy part of celery turn color.

Flowers

Roots

Seeds

• Read Jack and the Beanstalk

• Jack and the Beanstalk puzzle and fun sheets

• Soak bean seeds to identify parts of the seed

• Read A Seed is a Promise

• Read How New Plants Grow

• Cotyledon experiment with iodine to identify starch or food for the plant

• Eat Jack's beanstalks-  Mix 1 1/2 cups sour cream with 1 can refried beans and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder.  Stuff 3" pieces of celery with beans and sprinkle with cheddar cheese.

• Read From Peanuts to Peanut Butter

• Make homemade peanut butter.  Shell peanuts Place 2 cups shelled peanuts in food processor with olive oil.  Start with 2 T.  Add oil to get desired consistency.  Spread on cracker

• Read The Little Red Hen

• Art -  Monster Cup

How Seeds Travel

• Read The Tiny Seed

• Read big book How Seeds Travel

• Using a fan, a piece of felt, and a container of water, test seeds to see how they would travel

• Read Super Science magazine

• See Mrs. Frizzle Goes to Seed Video

Fruit -  Apples

• Read Apples and Pumpkins

• Various activities in Apples thematic unit book

• Read big book Apples

• Write an apple poem

Format from our reading series

I love apples.

Some are ______adj______.

Some are _____adj_______.

But they are all ____adj______ and _______adj_____.

OR

I like apples.

_____adj____, ______adj______ apples

____adj_____, _______adj_____ apples.

I like _____________. (something we make with apples.  ie:  apple pie

• Apple Art - Type and print out poem and attach to center of apple mosaic.  In the middle of graph paper, trace an apple.  Color the apple yellow, red or green.  Then choose two other colors and alternate coloring the squares surrounding the apple. 

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• Make baked caramel apples - Cut apple in half and core.  Add one caramel and a dab of butter to each apple half.  Add 1/2 cup of water to bottom of pan.  Bake apples at 475 for 15 min.

• Johnny Appleseed - read book and do various apple activities

Leaves

• Lost in the Leaves Project -   On a 3"x3" white square of paper, draw and color something you could lose in a pile of leaves.  Write 5 clues as to what the item  ie:  color, shape, what you can do with it.  End with the question:  What is lost in the leaves?  Fold a 9x12 piece of brown paper in half.  On the bottom half, glue on the riddle.  On the top half, glue the square in the middle.  Trace six different leaves on orange. green, and yellow construction paper.  Then glue the leaves down, stem only.  Lift the leaves to see what is lost in the leaves.

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Videos

Plant Adaptations

Plant  Structure and Growth

Mrs. Frizzle Gets Planted

Foods we Eat

• Read the book Plants That We Eat

• Complete booklet - color various plants and organize according to fruits, stems, leaves, roots, seeds, and flowers that we eat.

Plants Webquest - The Great Plant Escape

Great websites

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/c1m1a.html

http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/frizfreshfacts/friztv2/index.htm

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