Line of Inquiry: How animals and people use plants
While reviewing the form of the dandelion the children recalled how we ate fried dandelion flowers and that they wanted to try the leaves in a salad. The children helped rip the leaves into bite size pieces and decided if they wanted their salad plain or with dressing. Everyone tried and gave their opinion - they were good but they had a strong flavour!
preparing dandelion salad |
dandelion life cycle |
concentration! |
dandelion seed ball art |
"Maybe dinosaurs or dragons!" guessed Julia
We will research and find out!
We haven't had the heart to tell her that the dinosaurs are extinct,dragons only exist in fantasy or that unicorns are vegetarian.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm glad about that Brian. The need to keep the imagination in full bloom is so important. Therein lies all sorts of possibilities and what better disposition is there to have when developing an inquiry. And shush, don't tell her that unicorns have silver blood.
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