Grow Sunflowers

Preschool FunFor EducatorsWellbeing / HauoraLearn with Aroha
Written By Kim Manunui

There is something pretty special about watching a giant sunflower grow from a little seed. Plant some seeds and watch them sprout, grow and eventually bloom.  Then complete the cycle by keeping the seeds to plant again!

Hold a sunflower growing competition with friends, family or classmates!  You might need to research how to make your sunflowers grow the tallest.  Trial different fertilisers to see what works best and remember to water your sunflower regularly. You might need to stake it to protect it from being blown over in the wind too.

 Measure your sunflower each day and graph its progress!

For teachers:

Planting sunflower seeds at the end of Term 3 can lead to so much learning. You can integrate science, inquiry, maths (statistics and measurement), art, reading (research) and writing into a sunflower inquiry unit. They grow fast enough that you can plot their growth every couple of days on a graph. Why not get your students to trial different fertilisers and see which one is most successful?

Here’s a great New Zealand read aloud about sunflowers, ‘Sunflowers don’t grow in Winter’ by Emily Holdaway, Wildling Books.

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

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