Gardening Week 5

This week our gardening group started with a lesson plan. The purpose of this lesson was to show the kids how plants grow, their parts and their functions; our primary goal is to prepare the kids to learn more about plants and introduced them the topic of photosynthesis and also explain how the plants are formed.

To accomplish our goals, we did two activities with each group. The first activity consisted on making a drawing of a plant they like and write the name of every part of the plant we showed them.  We did this in order to make sure they remember the names of particular parts and their functions. The last activity was to make a ‘‘game’’ that consisted on guessing the word we presented to them. For example, some of the words may have been stem, leaves, fruits, etc. Another of our goals is to show them how the garden they planted was growing like in their drawings. We want to show them the responsibility of taking care of a plant, and this can help them in the future.

We are sure that our goals are accomplished when we see the kids happy and interested in the topics that we are discussing. They are completely ecstatic every time they see the garden and its progress.