Parts of the flower

We did a simple little picture today of a flower and labeled its parts.  Rachel and Ford were able to draw their own flower aand label the stem, leaf, petals, and roots.  Ruby colored her flower very nicely :)  Just by coincidence it worked out today that Ford was wearing a shirt that says "Roots", Rachel had on a shirt with flower petals, and Ruby had a green shirt on so we called her the stem and leaves.  We read the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle which does such a good job of showing how a seed turns into a flower and what it goes through over the seasons.  This has always been a story they love, but it seemed to mean a little more today.  Ford even made the comment that he didn't like that the little boy didn't look where he was going and crushed a plant that had worked that hard to grow.  We went for a walk around the neighborhood and found some seeds, weeds, and flowers.  We pulled a weed up in our driveway and looked at the roots.  I'm hoping this afternoon I can get the Zoomy to work (it's a really cool microscope) so that we can look closer at leaves, petals, stems, and roots.