Plants & Insects

Which grows faster... a caterpillar or a sunflower seed?  Our class made the prediction that the caterpillars would grow faster.  So we got some super tiny caterpillars exactly one week ago... we named them Sparkles, Tommy, Jax and Sunflower.  They were so tiny you couldn't even see them in a picture.  The one above is after a week of growing.... Below you will see our sunflowers.  They also started as tiny seeds planted deep in the dirt.  After 5 days they had grown just as much as our caterpillars.  AMAZING!

It was just like our lesson taught us... first you plant the seed in some rich soil, add some water, sun and love and voila.... sunflowers!!!! We also did a very fun art project that doesn't photograph so well...but we painted pictures of sunflowers.  The children did a great job!