Grow a Bean!

Here is an activity we all remember from our Grammar School days...
growing a bean plant. It is actually a great hands on activity to tie
into the study of botany, classification, and language.
Here are some resources:
http://www.inhabitots.com/potting-time-growing-plants-indoors-with-your-tot/

Bean Nomenclature with Description
from Montessori Print Shop

Bean/Seed Nomenclature from
Montessori for Everyone

Exploring Seeds Book
available from Montessori Services or Amazon

Growth of a Bean/Seed
from Montessori N Such

A Diagram

Bean Plant Puzzles with Control Sheets
From Early Learning through Montessori Services

Ripe Beans on the Plant

Life Cycle Materials NEW from Waseca
There is a set for the Bean Plant!

We're Home

After two weeks on an Island in the Great Northwest we are home...
I already miss the forest and the water. We have lovely mountains
here though...so in honor of all the nature I've enjoyed seeing I
will do a Forest Biomes materials post.

Here are some great resources:
Enchanted Learning has wonderful print materials for forest Biomes
here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/taiga/taiga.shtml
and http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/tempdecid/tempdecid.shtml
(for other biomes see the bar at the top of the page)

Waseca has wood biome maps you  can find here:
http://www.wasecabiomes.org/continent-studies/namerica-biomecurriculum/
World Biomes website  has good resources here:
http://worldbiomes.com/biomes_forest.htm
For plastic animal replicas for North American Forests

try here: http://www.shopatron.com/products/category/740.0.1.1.33307.70682.73016.0.0
or here: http://www.schleich-s.com/en/action_figures/collectables/product_range/world_of_nature/wild_life/animals_of_america/index.html
Here is a lovely set of cards and a book around the Redwood Forest Theme:

http://polaris-microsystems.com/montessori_images_shop/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=108_119&products_id=486