We introduced plants and plants we eat during our study of pumpkins. Here are some more of the activities we have been doing to explore the concept of edible plant parts.
Sorting Plants on a Plate (I wish I could find the source for this set! It was a hand-me-down that I received over a decade ago. Sorry, I do not have a printable for something similar in my shop 😞)
Let’s Chop Them Up!
Chopping Carrots
Chopping Peppers
Chopping Celery
Chop! Chop! Chop!
Now What?
Vegetable Soup, of course!
We also had fruit salad for snack and graphed which fruits were our favorite. Strawberries!
A little fruit sorting and tonging work for the fine motor shelf
Vegetables in our Mystery Bag matching work on the sensorial shelf
Vegetable picture matching cards on our visual matching shelf
Matching inside-outside fruit pictures on our pre-literacy shelf
Advanced parts of a plant sorting cards
And a couple of fun posters to look at 🙂
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Seemi holds a Master's degree in education, and an AMS Early Childhood credential. She has twenty years of experience in Montessori as a teacher, school administrator, and school owner. She is the founder of TrilliumMontessori.org.