One of my sunflower plants finally dried out enough for the seeds to come through the heads. I was excited to put them out for the students to explore.
The students used their fine motor skills to pull the seeds from the plants.
They also spent time looking carefully at how the seeds fit into the head, and what the seeds looked like.
These heads were small, but we still ended up with A LOT of sunflower seeds.
We read several different sunflower books about how seeds grow, but I love how the illustrations in Ten Seeds show the roots and the sprouts coming from the sunflower seeds. This is also a great book for counting and taking away from a set, so we used ten of our sunflower seeds to engage in that process during the story.
Since we had used all the heads on one sunflower plant, we pulled it out of the ground so we could see how the roots grew. One student asked, "Where's the seed?" because he remembered that the roots grew out of the seed. We couldn't find it, and now we want to learn more about what happens to the seed after it grows.
We are still waiting for the bigger sunflower plant to have seeds ready to harvest!
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