How Does A Seed Grow?

 This week we built on our knowledge of insects & spiders to learn about the ecosystem and how they help plants grow.  Here are our lima bean seeds (above.)  We put them in these little greenhouses to observe them and were amazed at how much they have started to grow.  They came home in your child's bag, so you can plant them in your garden or in a large flower pot to see the entire life cycle of a plant.  Below are some seeds from a friend.  He brought them in to share with our class and we separated them into 2 categories: eat and can't eat.  The children were surprised to learn how much we need plants to flowers to live.  (At the very least we need them to breathe.)  These seeds were so interesting and the children had a great time looking at them.  Thank so much to this friend for sharing them with us.