Last week the children had the opportunity to place lima beans and/or beans they found outside on the playground on a wet paper towel in a Ziploc bag. We taped the bags to the window and have been watering/spraying/observing them everyday.
During choice time today, I sat with the children at the science center table and listened to them as they shared their observation and ideas. Over the three day weekend the children discovered that the beans changed! I asked each child..."Do you think your beans changed?" Zach was so excited when he saw his beans! Over and over again he kept saying, "Mine growed, mine growed!" Noah said, " Mine are magic beans that will grow a bean stalk." Adam said, "Mine are yellow not white anymore." Micah R ," Mine growed when I watered them!" I continued to ask the children questions like "Do you remember what the beans looked like when we placed them in the bag?" Then I repeated and asked again, "How have they changed?" I encouraged them to open our Science Log Journal and draw an observational drawing.
One way to focus children's observations and thinking on growth and development is to help them compile a journal of drawings and notes they make over time. We will continue to encourage the children to use our Science Log to record changes in the beans growth and development. Eventually we will plant the sprouted beans in some potting soil, and continue to track the plants growth over time.
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