I want to take a moment to congratulate Just Starting Out! She is the winner of the June Edition of the Read.Explore.Learn. Summer Reading Challenge. She will be receiving a $10 gift code to Amazon.com.
Welcome to first week of the Read. Explore. Learn Summer Reading Challenge- July Edition! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books. Remember each post you link up counts as an entry in the the July Edition of the Summer Reading Challenge.
Steps:
- Link your activity below.
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Please place the Read.Explore.Learn. badge on your post or create a link back to this meme.
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Please try to visit at least three of the other people that have placed links below and leave a comment. I will visit each of you and leave a kind comment.
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If you are not linking up an activity and are just visiting, please try to stop by a few of the links below.
My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
We also read Sunflower House by Eve Bunting . The little boy in this story gets a wonderful idea about how to plant sunflower seeds in his yard. He decides they should be arranged in a circle to create a play place. What fun he and his friends have playing in it!
To be like the Sun by Susan Marie Swanson is a wonderful book about the life cycle of a sunflower seed. It starts with the dirt being moved to make room for the seed. The seed is told it will do work. Not the work of a thistle or a radish, but a work on its own. After the seed it underground the girl who planted it wants to know if it can hear the rain when it falls. Once it forms leaves, roots and a stem a bug will form.
What did we do?
Paper Plate Greenhouse
We had fun trying to grow seeds in the paper plate greenhouse. This is really just a plastic bag with wet cotton ball between two plates cutout to look like a house.
Wove Petals to a Plate
I helped with some of the weaving, but JDaniel did a lot of it. He was able to put the ribbon through the holes and then through the plate.
He got tired of using yellow ribbon and asked for the box of ribbon to select a new color. I had saved ribbons from a bouquet of balloon JDaniel had been given my his Nana for Easter. He loved “exploring” the ribbon
Here is our final product. It looks like it has had some of its petals plucked off. JDaniel was very proud of it and thought it really belonged on the the fridge.
I am LOVING that paper plate green house! My boys would think that was so cool.
Nice work ! looks very good and on top sunflowers are my favorites !
Oooh what a fab Paper Plate Greenhouse! Love it!!! And how sweet that we did Sunflowers the same week as you! Hooray!
Maggy
That paper plate greenhouse is so cute!
Congrats to Just Starting Out 🙂
Thanks so much for picking us at the winner!
The Joys of Home Educating
(formally Just Starting Out)
Melissa
http://just-starting-out.blogspot.com
Oh, I like the paper plate greenhouse so much! WE did the plastic bag w/lima bean but the house would ahve been so much more festive. I am going to try it that way next time we work on seeds!
I love the lacing craft too – great finie motor practice!
Awww that looks like a fun craft! Can’t wait to steal some of your ideas for when my little one gets bigger!
What a fun activity! You are such a great Mama!
I have never seen a paper plate greenhouse before, but what a cool project! The sunflower artwork was pretty sweet, too.
I always love your fun ideas! That greenhouse is so cool. I will have to attempt that with my kids.
I love sunflowers…so cheery! Especially the one you made on the fridge! Great, fun idea!
That sunflower would give me cheer every time I walked through the kitchen.
What a cute sunflower! He should be very proud! I think I should hunt out all the ribbons from old gifts and see how creative my daughter and I can get this weekend!
Returning the visit from the Mom Loop
What a cute sunflower project!
He did a great job! Looks adorable.
This is an activity my son would love! Going to have to work in this book and activity at our house. :)I adore your link-up. It is one of the first link-ups I’ve joined and I put my name on it rather than the name of the activity. Oops! 🙂
Walnut Acre, if you see this, I would like to comment on your activity (love the sunglasses for working on plant crafts 🙂 but the comment form and link-maker are glitching for me. Maybe it’s just me?
Love that sunflower!
Congratulations Just Starting Out !
Love the greenhouse and sunflower !
My 3 yo son is doing speech therapy. Every Wednesday, after our class, we go to the library and check out books on the words or letters that he is working on. This helps make it fun for all of us.
New GFC follower from the Alexa Hop. Cute activity :-). Make it a great week.
HOW SWEET! I love sunflower and what it represents. With this, there’s another meaning to my fondness for the sunny beauty – your kid’s activity! Congrats to you and JDaniel!
I love all of your fun ideas to tie into sunflowers. Thanks for sharing and I always look forward to participating in your Read-Explore-Learn link party.
Take care,
Shauna
myshaenoel.blogspot.com
awwww…love the sun flower. Wish my little peeps didn’t think they were to big to do stuff like that with me.
Very sweet.
Just out hopping a bit followed your comment from ???? gosh I forget???
i agree!
that flower totally belongs on the fridge!
all i could think of while reading this was the whole lima bean in a plastic cup watching it grow! 🙂