Gardens

I love gardens.  I however was not blessed with a green thumb and have the ability to kill a plant just by looking at it.  Even so, we tried, once again, to teach the kids (and myself!) about gardens.

Monday was wet and muddy from a huge rainstorm.  We spent the day inside painting, reading, playing games.  We made garden rocks and flowers to use later in the week.

 we played some file-folder games.  This one was good practice for number recognition and counting.

And we made an indoor garden inspired by the book The Imaginary Garden.  

We did some exploring at the arboretum.

And tried planting some seeds.

Last year Ethan dumped out all the seeds after we planted them.  This year isn't looking too promising either.   We'll see if anything actually survives this year.

more game playing and activities saved from last year.

and garden lunches