Montessori Inspired Parts of a Flower Activities

This midterm break (for Mavi), I’m trying to setup activities that both of the boys (3 and 8 years old) can participate in.  One of which is learning about flowers and what they are made of.  Now, even though Mavi has done this a lot of times already (when he was 4, when he was 6) , he’s still eager to do this activity with his little brother.  This is something new for me though, doing the activity with two boys, making sure that it is engaging to the little one, but at the same time able to relay information to my 8 years old.  Anyway, you can skim through the post to see how I made the boys work together in the activities I prepared for them.

DISSECTING THE FLOWERS

I first demonstrated how to remove each part of the flower, naming each part.  After I laid out the parts in a tray, I gave each one of them a flower, made them explore it and do their own version of dissecting a flower.  Note that we are using tulips here.

                   

As you can see, each of them has a tray.   They wanted to use scissors so I have to supervise. 

I love the tulips because I think lilies are the best.  The parts are much more bigger and distinct, the kids will appreciate it more and it’s easier for them to identify the parts.

IDENTIFYING THE PARTS

We made use of our Parts of a Flower 3 Part Cards and Booklet in identifying the parts of the flower.  Mavi led this activity, showed his little brother how to match the flower parts to that in the cards. 

Here’s a sample of Mavi’s work.  It’s so hard to find books on flower parts, so the definition booklet I made was a big help.  The flower book we are using was from Usborne.

Because it was Vito’s first time to do the flower parts matching activity, I just made him use the Montessori flower puzzle instead.  We identified the parts of the flower as he placed each puzzle piece on the activity sheet.

When we worked on the lilies, Vito wanted to match the parts of the flower to that in the puzzle pieces.  I think he gained some knowledge from our previous activity with Mavi then he became confident in doing the parts matching on his own this time.

                   

He first matched the parts on the puzzle pieces then I made him match it to our cards (real objects and abstract).

I was pretty impressed that he can identify the parts already!  Does he know the names? No, he can only name the petals.

Loved his work!  As you noticed, I only put out 4 flower parts for him to match with the flower puzzle. Introducing the entire parts of the flower to a 3 years old is too advanced and overwhelming, so better start things slowly.

Did you like how we worked on this? Tell me what you think, I’d like to hear your feedbacks in the comment section   The boys and I most probably will do this again once we get to the park.  It’ll be a spontaneous activity, without the need of plucking the flowers or taking apart its parts. 

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