Paradise Park Learning and Fun

Thank you to all parents who helped us supervise the kids at Paradise Park on Wednesday. We learned more about planting by visiting four stations. At one station we learned about monocot (one seed leaf) and dicot (two seed leaves) flowering plants. We pretended to be the seed and our arms were the leaves. After this we opened a bean seed to see the two seed leaves and the root.

At another station, we planted three bean seeds. We learned that all seeds need soil, warmth and light from the sun, water, and oxygen. I hope your child remembered to ask you to help them find a sunny window, open the container, and give his/her seeds some water.

We also went to the art station to create our own seed, showing the embryo, the food storage, and the seed coat. This was a bean seed with the two seed leaves (dicot).

The last learning station was time to make a pudding snack. We planted three M & M seeds in the pudding dirt, added a gummy worm to make space for our seeds to grow and get oxygen, and we added graham cracker crumb fertilizer on top to help our seeds grow. Yum! Yum!

After our learning stations on planting, the kids were able to enjoy some fun at Pretend Village, outside, water play, face painting, and foam factory.