Chef Selma and her broccoli friend are back! This week, we will check in on our garden and chat about how plants grow! How is your windowsill vegetable garden doing?
Getting ready for this lesson
If you have a little windowsill garden going, make sure you are close to it for this video, because we will be talking about what you can see in the garden!
Materials needed for this lesson:
Clean pair of scissors
Colander or bowl
Sheet of paper
Pencil
Coloured pencils or crayons
Parts of a plant activity sheet (if you have access to a printer but not required to enjoy this lesson)
Today we’ll talk about plants, how they grow, and the different parts of a plant as well as think about some different vegetables and what part of the plant they might be. There are some exploring, writing, and drawing exercises in this lesson. You can expect this lesson to fill about 20 minutes. Be sure to keep scrolling past the video for some additional at-home activities!
Related Activities:
Get moving and stretch out with our follow-along video of our vegetable stretch!
How do the parts of a plant work together and how does water get from the roots to the leaves? Check out this simple science experiment we’ve outlined for you to do at home using a celery stem to track the movement of water up the plant to the leaves.
Our gardens are growing more and more every day now. We’ve got a fun BINGO game to get kids exploring in the garden and to teach them some new garden and plant-related words! A note that some of these terms are a bit more advanced making this a fun learning game for kids of all ages and adults alike! We’ve prepared 5 different bingo cards as well as a list of these new terms to explore here.
Our Spring program is aimed at kids in grades 1, 2, and 3, but folks of all ages will likely learn something new! If it’s possible for an adult to be around during these lessons, that would be great. Our growing chefs might need their help a couple of times. We will let you know in the video when there are good moments to offer some help.
You can find this new online content here on our website, and we are making announcements about it on our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
Thank you so much for your patience while we reinvent ourselves and our programs.