Today we planted Magic Beans. It started after our story of Jack
and the Beanstalk. I'll show you the video of the story later in
this post. Thanks to PreK Pages for the printable pictures for
this story. The beanstalk is made from a very long paint stir
stick that I painted green, glued on foam leaves and velcro for
the pictures to stick to. After the story I told the children
that on my way to school I found some Magic Beans. I wondered if
we planted them today, what would grow. Of course since we just
heard the story they said a 'beanstalk'. But as we started
planting I encouraged the children to look at the colour of
their bean (jelly beans) and think of what might grow of the
same colour. I heard...green lettuce, red cherry, pink cotton
candy. Now that was better. We'll watch them grow all week and
see what comes up. Here is the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
At the art table we painted with Mighty Beans. They are shaped
like beans and have a little ball in them that makes them wobble
rather than roll.