Parts of a Plant (13th June)

Parts of a plant (13th June)

Maple group today reflected on their ideas from last week to make there own flowers
putting all the
different parts of a plant together.

The children all started off decorating their flower pot.

Dougie used his communicating skills to remind everyone “don't forget the
roots everyone”

There was some lovely colourful flower pots.

It was now time to get sticky!!

Fine motor skills are being developed as all the parts of the flower are being glued
together piece by piece.

~Pot

~Stem

~Leaves

~Petal

~Seeds

All of the children communicate their knowledge and ideas about plants to each other.

“The stem is next”

“I want three leaves”

“My fingers are so sticky”

“My flower has so many seeds”

“This is so much fun”

The children showing off their beautiful flowers

The children understand and express their ideas and information confidently and
creatively in more than one language so we are going to learn the names of these plant parts in Irish.

Plant: plandai

Leaf: duilleog

Stem: gas

Petal: peitil

Flower pot: proca blathanna

They also understand information in many ways and art is one of those ways children
learn about and express their knowledge.

Strong communication also works effectively and willingly in collaboration with
others and as you can see in these photos the children are doing just that.

Parts of a plant (6th June)

Parts of a plant (6th June)

The children's knowledge of plants!

The maple group explored parts of a plant using a felt diagram.

They recognised:

“That's the stem”

“Leaves”

“Brown dirt”

“There are pink petals”

“I see seeds”

We went through each part of the flower (roots, pot, stem, leaves, petals, seeds)

The children really enjoyed using the felt flower parts to create the whole flower.

We then recreated our felt flower using paper to make maple groups flower. Each child had a role to play. It was like a jigsaw each child completed their individual piece and then it came together as a group to create a beautiful flower.

Argon: flower pot

Alenna:leaf and petal

Ellen: petal

Kaspar: seeds

Lina: roots

Elise: stem and leaf

Emma:petal

All the parts then came together to create a flower.

All of the children then shared with the group a piece of knowledge they have about plants.

The ideas gathered were:

“Flowers have petals”

“Flowers needs sun and water to grow”

“I have yellow flowers at my house”

“Plants live in the garden”

“When the seeds fall on the ground they turn into new flower”

“You can eat plants: strawberries, carrots, apples and salmonberries”

“The roots soak up all the water from the ground”

“In the flower pot you have brown dirt”

“Tees in our forest”

All the children at creative minds focus on what it means to be a community of learners. Knowledgeable learners explore concepts, ideas and issues that have local and global significance such as the needs to keep to paths so that the plants are not damaged. Through these explorations and experiences they acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding about the world and in particular our local Pacific Spirit Park and neighbourhood homes and gardens.