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Do Plants Have Blood?

5/2/2020

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To get all the 3 and 4 year olds back together in the class post snacks break, the facilitator started singing 'Green Grass Grows All Around' and out sprang a conversation:
F: 'There was a tree…hole in the ground', How do trees grow?
An: From seeds
K:I put a hole, then some seeds and plants come out.
F: So we put seeds inside the...?
An: Ground
Av: And we have blood inside our bodies
F: But why do we need blood?
An: I don't need blood.
Ab & S: Even I don't need blood.
F: So if you don't have blood then what happens?
An: We go so soft and tiny
H: Same like a skeleton and like weh weh weh weh weh
F: What happens if the blood is outside the body?
An: Then when we speak we become weak (reduced her sound to be inaudible to show her point)
Av: And we also get soft and soft and soft
H: And broken skeleton we get.
T: And our tummy will break
Aa: Ma'am you know, yesterday at my house I was closing my eyes when I was walking to the front and I got hurt. Then my papa put medicine.
F: So what happened when you got a cut?
K: Blood will come out.

Children then talked about a few times when they all fell down and got hurt. An introduced the terms 'tumbled down' - "Avy once came to my dada's office and tumbled down", and everybody started using it then.

F, a while later, continuing the conversation: So why do you think blood comes out?
H: I know, because we get a scratch.
F: So blood comes out because it hurts or because we get a cut?
H: Because we get a cut
F: So how do we get more blood?
K: Beetroot is like blood only
H: Also watermelon, we need red like beetroot so that's also kind of blood
Aa: Little lollipop watermelon, it can't hurt me.
T: Hey, that's red like blood (pointing at the puzzle of pomegranate Kr was doing)
F: So you're saying only the food with colour of blood gives us blood?
K: Red crayon is like blood only

They then went on to explore a while longer among themselves what food we need to eat to get blood when the topic of skeletons came in.

F: Why do we need skeleton
H: Because we need to be strong
Av: Then we are walking on the stairs and then you will tumble down the stairs
F: Why so?
Aa: Then some skeletons can break but we can fix it with glue (shared his memory of a Halloween function he'd attended)
F: Okay, what does it do for us?
H: When we do something like this, skeleton copy us (moves her hand to show). Bones are inside.

And the conversations came back to blood and its colour.
H: Some children have purple and blue and so many kinds of blood.
F: Why are there so many different colours of blood H?
An: Some people have them.
F: Where have you seen them?
H: In the road. And in the shops
K: There are screws inside. Our bodies will get screwed. 
F: So if blood makes us strong, what makes plants strong?
T: So if we give water, it will come like a blood. For that happens
K: First we make a hole,then put some seeds and cover it and water it. 
Aa: It can become big big big big

We wound up the discussion with wanting to cut open a plant to see what's inside a plant after discussing on what we see after we cut open our bodies (blood, skeleton and bones), and what makes plants grow.

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A few days later, they went upstairs for free play and came down together with plants that they were going to cut open and observe.
Seeds, ants, snakes, caterpillars, worms, cockroaches, etc. were some of the answers that popped up when asked what they might see.
At this point Av said with a low voice, "Maybe we shouldn't cut it ma'am", as he had scared himself with his imagination of snakes and worms coming out of the plant when we cut it.
K: No, blood will come"
F: Is that so? Shall we look and see? How do you think they might feel?
"Plants will feel frightened", said H
"They will feel sad", replied T with a sad face when said how they plants might feel.
F: Why do you think so?
H: Because my mamma told me

They seemed to pour in emotions and empathize with the plant for a brief moment and quickly moved on to see what could possibly come out.

They then walked with the facilitator on the journey of actually cutting opening the plant to figure out what is inside, walking through what each part of the plant is.
Their curiosity and impatience arose as the plant was getting cut as to what could be inside the stem. When they saw it just green on the inside too, Aa replied," That green is the blood!"

K made a request, "Can you cut the branches?", and F did so after passing around the cut parts of the plants for children to observe. They all carefully sat in their seats, looked, touched and experienced it, and observed the textures of the plant's pieces.
Ab held the roots and was left with mud on his hands which he thought was blood to which Aa told that it is mud. They then saw water and concluded that blood has water inside and that it has white colour blood because they grow. They drifted off to talk about their blood being red and the F showed them a video of what's inside of the human body to satisfy their curiosity on what really is on the inside of our bodies.

Aa: Skin, if you remove them, your skeleton will show up!
Aa: My skull is very soft.
S: Mine is very hard
K: Mine is cold because bad weather cold came in.

Post this they touched and felt all their outer body parts and talked about what is inside while watching the video, and wound up for the day with wonder on what each part of the body does and could possibly do. They went home with an internal promise on finding more about their bodies while also searching at home to bring a plant to school to experiment on feeding the plant various things to see what does it need to grow as our bodies grow with food and water.

The children brought back two plants the following week, named them Robot and Sony, fed them leaves, water, etc., to see how it is going to grow and which of the things they fed, the plants like more. The experiment has come to a pause now as the children have gone on their summer break.

We at SM believe that children are curious individuals and their curiosities are sparks we value and nourish so the fire that burns brightly in them never fades but only burns brighter as each day passes by.


Contributed by Sruthy Krishna, Learning Facilitator at Sparkling Mindz Global Preschool.


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