by Abigail Miller | Aug 24, 2010 | arthropods, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, food cultivation, Food Preparation, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, pollinators
This past week, the children discovered this little character living amongst the zucchini in our garden (perhaps this is one of the little praying mantis’s we hatched and released at the beginning of the summer?). Our animated guest was a good sport; he spent...
by Abigail Miller | Aug 3, 2010 | arthropods, beekeeping, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, Children's Peace Garden, Growing Gardens, honeybees, life sciences, Longmont Preschool
“On an open lot, there’s a garden patch grown by children who live in the neighborhood.A sign on the garden’s gate says Children’s Garden Welcome!That means: Come in, please. Listen, see, smell, touch- even taste.”-In the Children’s...
by Abigail Miller | Jul 31, 2010 | art, Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, chemistry, cyanotypes, Longmont Preschool, sun prints
The children have been learning about the different parts of a plant, including the different structures present in leaves, and we have been discussing how plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis begins when light is absorbed...
by Abigail Miller | Jul 27, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, botany, flower dissection, life sciences, Longmont Preschool
“Once I tried to show some children how a flower should be dissected, and for this purpose I supplied all the necessary instruments: the botanist’s needle, pincers, etc., just as is done in the university for the experiments in the natural science. My only...