Our bean seeds project has moved to the next stage! A few weeks ago wee wees  dropped bean seeds on damped paper towels and enclosed them in plastic ziplock bags. We hung the bags on sunny windows and waited for them to sprout.

This week we noticed some of them not only had sprouted but also had their first leaves out. Yesterday we began to transfer some of those into little pots with soil to help them grow bigger.

To do this, we followed following process:

1. Children scooped organic potting soil into plastic cups and tapped the tops to pack the soil in to the cup.

2. with their fingers pushed a hole into the soil to insert the sprouted seed.

3. gently pushed the seedling into the hole and covered the roots with soil leaving stem and leaves out uncovered.

4. watered the plants using a turkey baster.

Project highlights:

–While working on this project children had a chance to touch and converse with the teacher about the parts of the plant they were handling. Roots were of special interest.

–touching and running their fingers through the potting soil.

–scooping and transferring soil from the big bucket to a small plastic cup.

–using gentle pressure for handling the seedling, tapping and pocking holes on the soil.

–learning to use a baster.

Be on the look for more pictures!!

Have a wonderful day,

WWF.