::: sowing seeds
Friday, July 9th, 2010
We were having a bit of chat with the children about the birdlife we find in our kinder garden. As you all can imagine, we don’t get a lot – who would visit a place which is full of rampaging four and five year olds?
Although our resident family of magpies never fail to visit us daily!
One of our familes recently donated a feeder for the wild birds and slowly over time we are getting less of the crows and Indian minors, and more rosellas …
and corellas which is very exciting!
As we were refilling the birdfeeder one day …
the children commented on the ‘grass’ growing under the feeder and were interested to learn it was the bird seed growing!
We talked about the variety of seeds in the mix …
and how lovely it felt!
We popped some seed into tubs and added different sized pouring containers so the children could have some sensory fun.
After enjoying the lovely experience of it for a while we though it might be fun to plant it and see what grew.
We were lucky enough to have a lot of clear baby food jars which we thought would enable the children to witness the root sytem taking hold.
So with a bit of cotton wool …
a scoop of seeds …
and a good squirt of water the children planted out their own miniature gardens.
All they’ll need now is a dose of sun which they will have to get at home as it is term break here and we didn’t think they would survive two weeks without some tender loving care. Fingers crossed the children will rock up with some nice interesting growth in their jars when we return to kinder!
