During one of our lessons about plants and plant parts we engaged in a food experience. The children were encouraged to arrange the plant parts creatively. They later ate their plant part creations as a snack.

Teacher Nesa: Children, today we are going to make plant parts snack. This is celery and it is a stem. These are carrots and they are roots. We are also going to use sunflower seeds, rice cakes and peanut butter to form patterns. These plants parts are good for you because they contain a lot of vitamins and minerals which our body needs. Do you know that we can also eat these raw? Let’s see who can make the most creative pattern.


Winnie: Fiona, please pass to me more carrots so I can make petals for my sunflower. My mummy cooks carrots at home and she said that carrots are good for the eyes.


Winnie: I am going to make a sunflower . The carrots will be the petals. The celery stalk will be the stem of the sunflower.


Janani: Winnie, I think I also want to make sunflower because I like sunflowers. Carrot is also a root you know and it grows inside the soil. Our aunty Alice makes carrot cakes and I love to eat them.


Fiona: See, all of us decide to make sunflowers. Baxton has more petals on his sunflower than me.
Ke Xin: I put less sunflower seeds on my flower because I don’t like sunflower seeds that much. I like to eat rice cake and peanut butter.


Baxton: This is the first time I am eating celery. My mother never buy this before. Next time I am going to ask my mother to buy for me celery and baby carrots as well.

This is the first time I am eating celery. My mother never buy this before. Next time I am going to ask my mother to buy for me celery and baby carrots as well.



Songs and Rhymes:

Plants

Plants just stand around all day
And sun themselves and rest

They never walk or run away
And surely that is best.

For otherwise how would a
Squirrel or robin find its nest?

Vocabulary List:

seedling petals stalk
stem leaves flowers
plant fruit bud
seeds shoot roots