Missing Addends: The third grade math teacher in me refrained from using the terms addend and sum, but I gave Emma the answer and asked her to find two numbers that could be added to make it. She had to use sunflower seeds to count up to the total, making sure to put some on each of the two flowers. Then we said, "____ + ____ = ____." Sometimes I would keep the same sum and ask her to find a different seed combination to show that there is more than one way to get the answer.
Seed Letters: Emma used the seeds to form various alphabet letters. It was tedious work, so we only did a few. You could also form shapes or numbers.
Seed Dissection: What's inside? Emma noticed that a few sunflower seeds were splitting open. She pried them apart to reveal the "baby plant" before it starts to grow into a plant. Again, the third grade science teacher in me wanted to use vocabulary such as seed coat and germination. All in good time!
Story Time: We enjoyed several fiction and non-fiction books about sunflowers.
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