This week, we are looking at various life cycles: bird (chicken), plant (cotyledons), amphibians (frog), and on our
Field Trip Friday we will learn more about the salmon life cycle.
The basic life cycle is birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
We came up with tableaux to help us remember the life cycle of a plant:
SEED AND SPROUT (GERMINATION)...
...SEEDLING...
...FLOWER AND FRUIT (WITH SEEDS INSIDE!).
AND AGAIN: SEED...
...SPROUT AND SEEDLING...
...FLOWER AND FRUIT (HE IS A BANANA).
We also made diagrams to help us remember the steps of the plant life cycle:
SEED (sort of like birth)...
...GERMINATION (sort of like birth)...
...SEEDLING (growth)...
...FLOWER (reproduction)...
...FRUIT (reproduction and often death).
At-home connections: what parts of plants are you eating? Sprouts? Roots? Fruit (whether it is
fruit fruit, or
technically fruit)? Seeds?
