One of my other favorite lessons to do with the kids is Plant Parts Salad!  We start off by reviewing or learning all the parts of plants and their functions.  Next we play a little relay game to test our knowledge…and then we EAT!  I’m amazed at how excited the kids are to eat salad and how many claim they never eat salad at home 🙁  I even had a few kids claim they hated certain parts of the salad that I had to offer…until they tried it!  I actually had to hide some of the fruits and vegetables so that the other classes could have some!  Today at Lacey Spring, 1st graders made a salad that consisted of:

Leaves-lettuce

Fruit-tomato

Stem-celery

Root-carrots

Seed-sunflower seeds

Flower-Broccoli heads