Parts of a Plant

While we were on a vacation at my parent’s house I grabbed the opportunity to teach Mavi all about plants and its different parts.  It was the best place to explore different types of plants as we are free to “pick” all parts necessary for our lesson.

Thus, we ended up having this.  The nomenclature card was from Montessori Print Shop.  I didn’t use the picture and label cards as of the moment as I was just introducing this to him.  Later, when the right time comes I’ll be giving him the full set of nomenclature cards so we can go to details as matching the labels to pictures and etc.  For now, we just matched the actual parts to that on the control cards.

But what my son really enjoyed was how we collected all the parts.  He was very excited about it as he LOVES to pick flowers and plants! It’s a good thing they were my mother’s.

First stop, we picked some flowers.  He borrowed a heart-shaped basket from his cousin. It’s like were doing “groceries”!.

Then we went on to search some stems and buds. My Mom has a wide collection of plants in her garden, so we moved on from one plant to another after he has “touch and feel” the stems, buds and leaf/leaves.

And look! We saw this little thingy.  I don’t know how it is called in other language, but in our dialect, we called it “intsik intsik”.  Mavi was so amazed to see such a thing!

Then I have to show him the roots. This one is pretty hard because I have to pick the whole plant.  Luckily there were some grasses, I pulled them off the ground and showed him the roots.  He was so giddy when he saw them... but doesn’t want to hold them.  He was telling me it’s dirty!   He haven’t seen actual roots anyway so I can feel his excitement. (Shown on below are some roots and buds)

He truly enjoyed our activity! And I love that we did this together.  He cooperated and very attentive.  I hope we could do more of this in the future.  This is one of the reason why I always dreamed of having a back (or front) yard so Mavi and I can do lots and lots of outdoor activities together.  The joy in teaching and learning!