Stems

Observation of Stems

Every week we pick a different part of a flower or plant seed,stem,grass blades etc... I have each one set up for a total of a week. The children in our home form there own observation & compare the plants that we've gathered together or that I have set out for them.

I DO NOT drill into them all the parts or scientific words, at this age it's a Stem that provides "LIFE" to the plant. They'll typically converse together and ask questions on there own, it is at that point I will answer.

When their friends come over they're happy to express there new found knowledge.

Nature

Our Life,Our Planet,Our Home

IF we teach our children about NATURE and that all around us is "LIFE".It is in this teaching they will have a GREATER respect for our precious planet "EARTH".

Hygiene

Homemade Soap
Coconut Oil, Palm Fruit Oil,Oatmeal,Powdered Milk,Lavender,Almond Oil,Jasmine & a Little Natural Paraffin to hold it all together.

Yarn Bathtime Soap

Yarn
HaNd WOrk
Recent neurological research tends to confirm that mobility and dexterity in the fine motor muscles, especially in the hand, may stimulate cellular development in the brain, and so strengthen the physical foundation of thinking. The work done over the past seventy-five years in hundreds of Waldorf schools worldwide, in which first graders learn to knit before they learn to write or manipulate numbers, has also proven successful in this regard.

Wet on Wet

Waldorf
Wet on Wet
Watercolor
"Expressions from within"
Without specific instructions, there is some direction given to the child in a playful and inviting way. Comments, poems, or verses are used to prepare, create anticipation, and invite imagination before beginning.
I LOVE the Waldorf way ...
gently guiding the child with beauty and reverence while allowing the child to freely express his own personality and creativity is awe-inspiring.

China Town

China Town
2012
Year of The Water Dragon

See Water Travel

Photosynthesis
Plant can't go to the store to buy there own food,so how do they get it? Plants take water and carbon dioxide {a gas in the air}, and use sunlight to turn them into a kind of sugar called glucose. The plants use the glucose as food for energy and as building blocks for growing. They get help from something called chlorophyll, which gives leaves their green color. The process where plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar is called "photosynthesis".It means "putting together with light".

See Water Travel

You will need
.food Coloring
.Stalk of Celery with Leaves
.Glass of Water

Wait a few hours, what happened to the celery?
Slice the celery the short way. Look at the colored paths that carry water.

Science ~ Flowers

FlOwErS

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots, are a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.

Easy-View Science Specimens
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