Sunflowers for Songbirds

In our reading book we read the story, "Frog and Toad Together." Frog has a garden and Toad wants one too, so Frog gives Toad some seeds. Toad is very impatient and demands that his seeds grow. Frog comes along and tells him he must be patient and wait. Toad reads and plays music for his seeds, then eventually falls asleep. When he wakes up he is pleasantly surprised to find that his seeds have sprouted.

 

 

Here the children are planting sunflower seeds.

 

Our seeds sprouted a week later.

 

 

The students record oservations about their sunflowers in a science journal. Today they measured their plants using cubes a non-standard of measurement. In a few weeks we will be learning about measurement in math. This hands-on activity is great for building background knowledge.