Transdisciplinary Theme: How we share the planet
Central Idea : Plants play a unique role in our lives and the lives of animals
lines of inquiry:
- The features of plants in our local area
- How animals/people use plants
- The needs of plants in our local area
This Friday, a big bunch of sunny yellow flowers was brought into Creative Minds classroom. Many children delightfully called out "dandelions!" The children shared what they knew about dandelions:
Cameron - "They are weeds. Dandelion can be medicine, too!"
Alfie - "You need to dig them out from a garden!"
Roy - "You can blow the white things."
To learn more about dandelion, the book, we read the book "Dandelion Adventures" by L. Patricia Kite. Then, the children were amazed by the beautiful time lapse video of dandelion flower turn into seeds.
Dipping dandelion flowers into yellow and orange paint, the children printed dandelion pattern on the paper and drew leaves and stalks with green crayons! 
It was lovely to hear children talking about dandelion flowers and seeds after the art activity.
Cameron asked "do dandelions grow all around the world at any place?"
Jayla asked "why some dandelions at our playground are closed?"
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