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Learning About Seeds

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March 1, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 13 Comments

We’re studying botany for science for the next few months.
We read the Parable of the Sower and about the mustard seed in Bible.

We’re learning about seeds and longing for spring.

We’re seeing a few signs of spring, but also more snow and ice. It’s a lovely dichotomy.
We’re using Exploring Creation with Botany by Apologia as our text and the kids each have an Exploring Creation with Botany Notebooking Journal.

Alex loves his first junior notebooking journal! The girls each have their first regular journals.

There are pages to draw or color, writing sections, puzzles, and lapbooking components.

Botany Notebooking Journals

We compared sunflower seeds and bean seeds. We found the hilum and embryo.

Bean and Sunflower Seeds

Dad helped us to dissect our soaked bean seeds to see the embryo.

Dissecting a Bean Seed

We also placed bean seeds in plastic bags with wet paper towels to view the germination.

Since it’s still so cold here, we taped them to the windowsill by the radiator instead of to our sliding glass door which is in the coldest hallway in our house.

Seed Sprouting

We’ve been observing some early signs of spring like my chives and daffodils sprouting.

Daffodils and Chives

We have some wildflowers to plant when the ground gets a little warmer. We will observe bees and pollination.

Wildflower Seed Mix

Katie found this little curly seed at the park and proudly brought it home.

We’ll hold onto it to see what kind of leaves it has.

Learning About Seeds

And here are our bean seeds after ONE WEEK!

Bean Seeds After One Week

I think it’s important for kids to learn where food comes from and how much work farming is.

We’ve had nice gardens in the past with fruits and vegetables. They love to plant, weed, water, watch, and harvest the bounty – and cook, can/preserve, and eat it!

We’re excited to start our garden when the ground gets warmer!

Resources:

  • Learning About Seeds + Printables
  • Science of Spring
  • Learning About Seeds from Untrained Housewife
  • Tons of Seeds Activities from How Wee Learn
  • Tot School: Seeds from Kara Carrero
  • Montessori Seeds from Playful Learning
  • Scholastic Seeds
  • Growing Seeds from Play Dough to Plato
  • PreKinders Seeds
  • Grow Sprouts
  • How to Start Seeds
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  1. Mother of 3 says

    March 7, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    Wonderful lesson; we grew bean seeds in plastic bags on our windows one year. It was amazing to see how quickly they grew!

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  2. Renee says

    March 9, 2016 at 2:02 pm

    I love using Apologia. We have not gone through the Botany book yet. I’m also so ready for spring! I’m afraid that in Tennessee we are being teased with warmer weather and buttercups blooming. We will have more cold weather I’m sure. Stopping by from A Wise Woman Builds Her Home Linkup :)

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  3. Miranda says

    March 9, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    How fun! Spring is a great time to learn about seeds, we will be starting seeding and gardening in our homeschool soon, too.

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  4. Amanda Nel says

    March 10, 2016 at 11:22 am

    What a wonderful way to connect with your children. I am going to try this with my grandchildren – they are a bit small but something might stuck!

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  5. Lori @ Frog's Lilypad says

    March 10, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    I loved doing this when my son was younger. I bought flower seeds the other day, so I can start them indoors so they will be ready at the end of May to transplant. I love spring! Thanks for sharing with Thankful Thursdays.

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  6. angie says

    March 11, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    Looks like lots of great learning going on, these lessons will pay off in years to come and can be cross influenced with so many subjects

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  7. Jamie says

    March 12, 2016 at 1:37 am

    What great tips!! I’ll need to try and plan to do this, since I’m not able to start planting outside for awhile! :) Thank you for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty

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  8. LizZ H. says

    March 11, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    I couldn’t agree more. I am seeing overseas how Kindergardeners have their own little grocery beds and I’m loving and wishing it would come to North America. Kids need to understand where our food comes from..it doesn’t start it’s life in a store.

    Are you going to plant the beans?

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    • Jennifer says

      March 12, 2016 at 10:19 am

      Yes, we plan to put the beans in the ground outside when the frost is gone. We just had snow the other day! We hope to plant several food items this year. We only had container tomatoes last year. And we always have an herb garden.

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  9. Marie says

    March 15, 2016 at 9:43 am

    I love this activity! And that Dad got to join in the fun. Thank you so much for stopping by the Learn & Play Link Up. This post is featured on Christian Montessori Network this week!

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  10. Victoria says

    March 17, 2016 at 4:00 am

    So fun! You just reminded me I need to get the seeds out for my little ones to discover! Thanks for sharing :)

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  11. ELAINE SIGMON says

    April 27, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    Jennifer, my name is Elaine Sigmon. I love your blog. You seem to have such a beautiful spirit about you that pulls me in and has me wanting to read everything you write. I read where you want stride the Essential Oil Business. I started with Young Living Essential Oils in June of 2016 and so far I am loving it except for the restrictions of the FDA. I am a registered nurse and I find it hard not saying certain things but I do try to get my point across in using the right words. If you get a chance I would love to know what you meant by not being able to do the business. I do know that I have met some wonderful people that are sold out to the Lord. I do agree with you though about the FDA; however, I do feel that young living has top-of-the-line oils and I enjoy using and sharing. Keep up the good work with the blogging. This is definitely your calling. Thank you

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    • Jennifer says

      April 30, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      Thank you SO MUCH! I’m so happy you like reading my blog.
      I’ve put our oils business on hold since we moved to Germany. There were issues with having a personal business here. I didn’t want to pay German taxes and we can’t use our APO mailbox for a business. I was very frustrated with the FDA and YL for telling me what I can’t say. I was told I had to remove every mention of YL from every single blog post and social media online, but I’ve seen other bloggers still have posts and images with the exact same language I was attacked for using. It’s been very disheartening. YL has a few products I really love and we haven’t wanted to cancel our accounts due to that.
      As a nurse, I would think you have more freedom to express the benefits from a medical standpoint.
      I pray we all find the right path to share the oils, our faith, and our experiences. Blessings!

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