Corn:
This year we grew corn on the cob in our garden. Not knowing what to expect. The ears were small and cute...
I made a tray with ears of corn, a bowl to put the shucked corn into, and a bowl for the hulls.
The next day, the shucked corn goes on a tray with a bowl for the cleaned corn, water, washcloth (for drying) and a vegetable scrubbing brush.....once the activity of cleaning off the hair is completed......we plan to fix the corn for dinner that night.
I plan on making another tray with the hulls to make corn husk dolls a little closer to Thanksgiving.
Leaves:
The leaves are now turning. In our plan is a nature hick to collect leaves.
I will take a picture of leaves in both columns with the labels Compound and Simple, for control. They will then sort the leaves into the 2 columns.
Another activity is to take a real leaf, glue it to paper and label the parts of a leaf using the cards as control.
Acorns:
I enjoyed reading a fall activity of taking the acorn tops off a few acorns and making a tray where my younger ones can "match" the correct top with the acorn. Now tell me do you thing the older ones will not want to try the challenge?
Cattails:
The past few years we have done seed dispersal in the fall. One of our favorite activity is to get cattails and "help" them disperse their seeds. This year I have collected several odd types of plant that have unusual methods via wind dispersal. I ask the boys to try to guess which will go farther, then let the experiments begin! I will have the microscope handy in case there is any interest in determining why....
Seeds:
I have been collecting pits for dissection. I hope that their will be interest for the older boys to dissect the various seeds and match to the Montessori cards I have. We were also able to grow rosehips which I hope will spark interest....
Pumpkins:
We also grew small pumpkins this year. I am hoping to introduce weight (mass) and volume (measuring) for our pumpkin pie. So much can be done here estimating weight, measurement, volume and perhaps guess how many seeds the pumpkin contains.
Not to mention the trip to the pumkin patch to pick our large pumpkins for carving. There is a small farm nearby that allows for picking your pumpkin.
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