Flowers Blooming In WOW Sunflower House
Sunflowers are blooming and growing inside the sunflower house on the lower school campus. The sunflower house provides a hands-on, outdoor learning experience for Benjamin’s students in WOW. WOW students begin the cross-curricular project by reading Sunflower House by Eve Bunting. The young Buccaneers then draw plans for the sunflower house, create sunflower artwork and plant sunflower seeds in cups to begin the growing process.
“The students prepare the garden for planting, transplant the sunflower seedlings into the garden and continue to care for the sunflower plants as they grow,” Pre-K 3 teacher Rebecca Tepper says.
“The children continually check for new leaves, flower buds, and signs of growth by measuring the size of the plants relative to the size of their own bodies. Once the sunflower house is full-grown and begins to bloom, the WOW classes celebrate its grand opening! It is then the perfect place for some of the most important elements of early childhood education: imaginative play and creative expression,” says Tepper.
Tepper says the majority of the work creating the sunflower house is done by the students while the teachers take a back seat and act as facilitators.
“This gives the students a deeper understanding of and greater appreciation for the project when they finally get to play in it. The children have been enjoying themselves and love the fact that some of the sunflowers are even taller than the teachers!”
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