My grandson and i, were preparing for a visit to Mander Playground to learn about Container Gardening. i introduced our activity by saying that we are going to a class in the park to learn about plants and flowers. His reaction: " I DON'T WANT TO LEARN ABOUT FLOWERS." i say "do you like butterflies?" he says "yes, and bees like flowers they make honey from flowers." i said "no, they get pollen from flowers and help other flowers and food sources grow. They are pollinators. We are going to learn about Native plants, do you know what native means?" he said "no". i said "native means where you are from." He thought about that, i then asked "where are you from ?" and he said "north philadelphia." i said "yes," he said "i was right," i said "yes!!" then i mentioned that being from north philadelphia means that you are native of north philadelphia and so are the plants. He reaches for our book "Wonderful Worms" by Linda Glaser (which we got for free from the parent community resource room School District of Philadelphia), and we discuss how the worms help our flowers and food grow underground and bees and butterflies help above ground.
We then view the brochure for the event. He says "he likes the humming bird" and i explain that the humming bird is a pollinator also!! Now we have to explore why the bird is called a humming bird!!
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At the end of our conversation i ask "what is a pollinator" he replies " I don't know". i smiled repeat that pollinators help flowers and food grow. Family gardening, Seed planted!!
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