Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sunflower State

This time of year, it's easy to see why Kansas is called the Sunflower State.  Sunflowers happen to be one of my favorite flowers- they're just so darn optimistic!  I enjoy the native sunflowers growing in my back yard and along the roads, as do all the butterflies and other insects.  Last year I took some sunflowers to school for the students to observe and draw.  The timing won't work out right this year since we are jumping right into some Southern African projects for Multi Cultural Heritage Week, more on that later!  In the mean time, I hope you enjoy some of my photos.


5 comments:

  1. VERY CREATIVE SITE WITH ORIGINAL IDEAS!!! GONGRATULATIONS!!! HAVE A NICE WEEK!!!

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  2. Beautiful! I also love sunflowers! If you can't do them now do them later to spice up a blah winter or spring.

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  3. Sunflowers are my favorite flower! I love your pictures! This reminds me of a “learning experience” I did with my toddlers once that you might be able to use with your students at some point. I took in sunflowers at various stages of growth and we explored and talked about the similarities and differences. When they got bored with that, we used the sunflowers to paint with and explored how the different parts of the sunflower made different types of prints. Obviously, with toddlers it wasn’t a super in-depth analysis or anything, but they did get to learn about sunflowers and had fun painting with them! :-)

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  4. Great photos. I've put a link to your blog on my Teacher's T-Party blog. I hope that's ok.

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  5. Thanks, ladies! I think I'm going to try to do sunflowers sometime this fall so I have something to display in January to get ready for Kansas Day.

    @Tahlia, that's just fine, thanks! :)

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