We watched an episode of Sid the Science Kid called Shrinking Shoes that teaches about growing and transformation. In the episode they look at beans that they have planted and how much they have grown. One of our projects for the day was to plant some beans that we can watch grow. Reagan is really excited about her beans, and love checking every day to see if they've grown, and to make sure they are watered. We also talked about how plats grow, and did a project where Reagan had to put the stages of plant growth in order, and then told me about each of the stages.
1. SEED: Get the water and you put it in the sun so it will get bigger.
2. PLANT: It happens, and it grows bigger, and bigger, and big!
3. BIG PLANT: It has a flower on it's top. A sunflower on it's top.
Then Reagan told me an impromptu story that I jotted down on the back of her paper;
Once upon a time, there was a sunflower on this plant. It was tired of growing, and growing bigger. And that's what happened to the seed.
One of the other things they do in the show is measure how tall Sid and his brother have grown on a doorway in the house. Reagan recently got a new growth chart that we hadn't yet put up, so we did that as part of our lesson too. She was excited to help put it up and make her first mark for how tall she was. Sorry I don't have a picture of that! She is super proud to be 3ft. 3/4 inches tall!
We'll be continuing this study by checking on the beans as they grow, and planting more after these have spouted, so that we can compare how much the different ones have grown. And of course we'll be checking to see if Reagan has grown any more too. :-)
Although it's unrelated to growing, we also made Jello on Tuesday as part of our work. We have a Jello US flag mold, and were supposed to make it for Patriot Day, but didn't have enough Jello, so we were making it a little late. It is quite tasty though!
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