It's Ready!!!!!

We finally got to harvest our preschool container garden today.  Following harvest, the children washed their lettuce, radishes, and onions.  Mrs. Montgomery bought some tomatoes to add since our tomato and pepper plants aren't ready yet.   Most of the children thoroughly enjoyed their salad.

AM Class

Our salad turned out great.

We used scissors to cut our lettuce.  We got extra cutting practice and we can get another crop from the lettuce by not pulling it from the roots.

Yuck!  An onion with dirty roots.

"Look at all the flowers on our tomato."

Our pepper plant has blooms.

Close up look at the tomato blooms.

"Look what we grew and picked."

We have to get all the dirt off.

"This is so good."

PM Class

"It's not polite to take pictures when people are eating."

We're getting buggy

The preschool students spent the last two weeks studying about insects and arachnids.  They learned that insects have three body parts, six legs, and two antennae.  They learned that arachnids have two body parts, eight legs, and no antennae.  They learned that arachnids include spiders, ticks, and scorpions.  The children concluded the unit by designing either an insect or arachnid.  They had to plan what color they would paint it and what body parts they would need.  Some of the children became "quite" creative.

green ant

pink spider

fly

fly back

spider

tick

tick

beetle

fly

fire ant

spider

spider

butterfly

spider (upside down fangs, oops)

butterfly

spider

Ants made from egg cartons and pipe cleaners.

spider weaving