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Plants
By Sarah

Last year, we read "Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle, "The Turnip" (which is also the Big, Big, Carrot) We discussed things plants need to grow vs. things we need to grow. Turns out they're the same, huh?!..anyway...One day we
made sunshines where they cut out a circle from yellow and attached rays of sunlight, on it they wrote, "plants need sun to grow". The next day we made rain clouds with water droplets hanging from them, "plants need water to grow"...then we made vine looking things from green paper and they said, " plants give us oxygen". Then we planted a seed and every 3 or 4 days we measured it's growth

and kept a journal for each child's plant. We also made a graph where we could compare each plants growth. You can do experiments with darkness, and no water, or too much water, you can do music -Does a plant that hears music grow better than one that doesn't?"
Hope that gets the ball rolling....I've got tons more if you need!