Plant Photos and Video

The second graders have been learning about the jobs that each plant part does. In our leaf rubbing adventure, we gathered leaves from the Plaza area outside and rubbed crayon on paper over them to see the veins.

Leaves make food!

In our celery experiment, we put celery stalks in water to see what the stem does besides support the plant. The colored water moved up to the leaves.

Stems move water and nutrients throughout the plant!

We have also been practicing our "Leaves, Flowers, Stems, and Roots" song. Here are a few photos and a video of the students in action. (They love singing and acting things out!)

Leaves

Flowers

Stems

and Roots!

Plants

This week we started our unit on plants.

On Tuesday, we learned a song called "Leaves, Flowers, Stems, and Roots" to discuss the different jobs each plant part has. Then we made mini books that had pictures and explanations about each part.

Here are the lyrics to the song- ask your son or daughter to show you the movements: (to the tune of "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes")

Leaves, flowers, stems, and roots- stems and roots
Leaves, flowers, stems, and roots- stems and roots
Make food
Make seed
Support the plant
Collect
Leaves, flowers, stems, and roots- stems and roots

Within these next few weeks we will be examining the veins in leaves, watching water move up stems, and acting out and illustrating the steps of the life cycle of plants.