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Project Goal

The goal of this project is to understand the process of growing a flower, improve writing skills through journaling about the process, while producing a decorated flower gift for Mother's Day. The children will plant seeds and propagate leaves of live orchids. Once the planting and propagating is done, we will care for the individual plants weekly with discussion and journaling until Mother's Day. Before Mother's Day, the children will repot plants in pots that they decorate themselves. We will use a cricut machine to create stickers for their pots and cards for the children to decorate. The children will write a personal message in their cards.  

 

How Project Benefits Students

The kindergarten children will gain knowledge in the process of planting a seed and propagating leaves to grow into plants. They will learn proper care instruction for plants by caring for them weekly. They will practice writing skills by creating orchid journals about the process. They will gain more Knowledge of the first, next, then, and finally process through their writing and discussion.  

 

Expected Outcome(s)

The children will know the process of planting a seed, growing a plant and caring for a plant. The children will produce beautiful mother's day orchids that they have planted and decorated which will be their personal mother's day gift.  

 

Detailed Cost Summary

The cricut machine is 279.00 on Amazon which will be used to print letters and stickers. The tool set includes the items needed to weed lettering from the machine and is 10.99 on Amazon. The self-watering planters are the pots that the children will decorate for the final product. 2 sets will be needed to cover each child. Each set is 15.49 on amazon. Two bags of orchid potting mix will be needed and is 21.95 per bag on amazon. A bag of natural leca is needed to mix into the potting mix for a healthy plant. This is 12.99 per bag on Amazon. Orchid seed is 6.99 for 50 peices on Amazon. 3 live orchid are needed for propagation of leaves to give each student at least 1 leaf. Cricut transfer paper is needed to print the letters that will be placed on the pots and cards. Many of these items will be used to do other projects of learning with the student.  

 

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