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April 21, 2017

Fun Plants Activities for Plant Life Cycle Parts of Plant

The past 2 weeks have been all about plants! I want to share several of our plant activities for 1st grade with you all. These could definitely be used in a kindergarten or 2nd grade classroom, too! I absolutely LOVE all things spring so I could NOT wait to get the ball rolling with this unit. We started off looking at seed, identifying their parts, and made these seed flip books.
Plant Activities parts of a seed
We also identified what plants need in order to grow and made these flowers.
plant activities plants need
We wrote what the plants needed under each leaf.
plants activities plants need
plants activities plants need
We also became gardeners and ordered the stages of the plant life cycle.
plants need plants activities life cycle of a plant
life cycle of a plant
We started our greenhouses. We used lima beans. They are the perfect seed for observing the different stages of the plant life cycle.
plants activities planting seeds plant life cycle
plants activities parts of a plant plant life cycle
We are recording the growth of the beans in our plant journals…
plant life cycle plant journal parts of a plant plant activities
plant life cycle plant journal parts of a plant plant activities
plant activities
plant activities kindergarten 1st grade first grade 2nd grade second grade
We also read, Tops and Bottoms, by Janet Stevens.
parts of a plant plant life cycle plant activities kindergarten first grade 1st grade 2nd grade second grade tops and bottoms janet stevens
It is such a great book for showing what parts of plants we eat. After reading, we sorted vegetables by tops and bottoms.
plant activities parts of a plant kindergarten first grade 1st grade second grade 2nd grade
plant activities parts of a plant plant life cycle kindergarten 1st grade 2nd grade first grade second grade
plants activities kindergarten first grade second grade 1st grade 2nd grade
and lastly, we ate plants! We identified the parts of the plant that each vegetable was and recorded our observations of the vegetables using our 5 senses.
parts of a plant activities
parts of a plant activities
Y’all. This cracked me UP! They thought most of the veggies were DISGUSTING!
We are wrapping up our plant unit next week with this Find a Friend activity. My students will glue the flower into their interactive journal and walk around the room and find friends that can write the answer to each petal.
plants plant activities parts of a plant
You can find all the plant activities above in my Plant Fun pack, here.
plants activities parts of a plant kindergarten first grade second grade 1st grade 2nd grade plant life cycle

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