We have been learning about plants. We learned that plants need water, air, sunlight and soil to survive. The parts of a plant are the stem, roots, flower, leaves and seeds. We learned that there are capillaries inside the stem. The capillaries are hollow tubes that carry the water from the stem to the flower. We looked at the capillaries in celery.
What we did was add red food dye to water. We put the celery in the water. We were able to see the red dye around the capillaries. We also saw that the leaves of the celery turned red. This is because the water traveled up the capillaries to the leaves.
Here is the celery with red leaves.
We also put blue food dye in water.
We put a carnation in the blue food dye. We observed that the petals of the carnation began to turn a little blue.
We also planted marigold seeds.
The seeds started to grow in a pot that we decorated for Mother's Day.
