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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A Beanstalk Grows in Turtle Land

We installed our beanstalk today! We decided that the climber could be the giants' castle, and our house could be Jack's house. The beans on our window are also starting to burst out of their seed husks. 

Beans and sunflowers are often companion crops, with the beanstalk growing up the strong stalk of the sunflower. So today, we planted sunflowers to grow with our beans! We used soil pellets that expanded in the water to plant our seeds.









Other activities:
making a cloud for our giants and beanstalk


inventing new uses for pencils




the circling of the motorcycles


off for a jog


exploring trees







reading "Who's Been Here?" a story about finding signs of animal visitors in the garden


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