Sponge or small drying cloth.
Tiny dish with cotton ball.
Supply of cotton balls.
- Invite the child to the lesson.
- Explain that the child will learn how to care for a plant.
- Take the materials to a table.
- Let the child choose a plant to care for.
- Pick up the plant.
- Show him how to carry a plant.
- Set it back down.
- Ask him to take the plant to the table.
- With aprons on, ask the child to fill up the watering can and the tiny pitcher.
- Pick up the watering can.
- Pour just enough water so that the soil is wet but so that it is not soaked or flooding.
- With the small water pitcher, pour a tiny amount of water into the leaf dish.
- With a cotton ball, soak up a little bit of water.
- Carefully stroke the leaves with the wet cotton ball to remove the dust.
- Look for dead parts of the plant with the child.
- Use the scissors to carefully remove these parts.
- Place these parts in the dish.
- Give the plant a few sprays with the spray bottle.
- Ask the child to perform the exercise.
- Once the child is done, show him how to clean up.
- Pour out any excess water.
- Dump the dish of dead plant parts into the trash.
- Throw away and replace cotton balls.
- Use the sponge to dry the materials and table.
- Remove your aprons.
Same as presentation.
Points of Interest
Swabbing leaves, determining what a plant needs to be healthy and grow.
Care of the environment through plant care, beautifying the environment, judgement, giving a sense of order through a sequence of materials, independence, awareness of surroundings, coordination, preparation for botany.
3 and up